[WikiEN-l] Britannica attempts to become Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

2008/6/3 Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com>:

> What an odd thing to claim. Wikipedia must have many hundreds the
> number of contributors that Britannica has. Most of the articles I
> come across have been edited in the last 6 months. I'm not sure how
> "update the database" is defined here, but if we take it to mean an
> article being edited, the majority of Wikipedia's database must be
> updated every year. I would guess that over 75% of Wikipedia articles
> have been edited in the last year. Are there any statistics on this?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AncientPages , but it hasn't been
updated since 2006.

Download a dump and get to work ;-)


- d.