[WikiEN-l] What is happening to the community

[Oldak Quill]

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On 06/03/2008, David Gerard  wrote:
> On 06/03/2008, Wily D  wrote:
>
>  > Even today, as a vetern user of a couple years, I find it very easy to
>  >  edit articles and only run into helpful, friendly people.  I just
>  >  follow a few simple rules.
>
>
>
> I've been creating articles. It's fun. Today I started [[List of Ecma
>  standards]], which (a) needs completion (b) needs articles on each
>  standard.
>
>  It's not a matter of Wikipedia having all the "low-hanging fruit" - we
>  have all the fruit that's fallen off the tree. Twenty million topics
>  have been identified as being within arms' reach ...
>
>  Two million? We've barely started.

Definitely. See the following for just some of the subjects "at arms'
length": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons

A selection:
*"The Guide Star Catalog II has entries on 998,402,801 distinct
astronomical objects searchable online."
*"The British Library is known to hold over 150 million items."
*"Genbank, an online database of DNA sequences from over 165,000
species , has over 46 million entries"
*"The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) GEOnet Names Server
contains approximately 3.88 million named"
*"Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center contains over 1,335,000 biographies."
*"31 million CAS registry numbers have been allocated for chemical compounds."
*"the Internet Movie Database claims to have records on 549,131 titles
and 2,280,301 names."

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