[WikiEN-l] "Wikipedia’s Foundation Plans Expansion"

[Charles Matthews]

Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> But I also think that we all agree
>> that there's definitely a long way to go before en-wp could be considered
>> "full". IMO we're only just scratching the surface of what we can eventually
>> achieve :-)
>>
>> -Liam
>>     
>
> My usual link on this topic is:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus/Wikipedia_interwiki_and_specialized_knowledge_test
>   
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"One of the interesting questions about Wikipedia is 'how much more 
information there is for Wikipedia to assimilate'?" My impression is 
that people who are encyclopedists at heart, and are at all interested 
in the question, know that the only possible answer is "a hell of a 
lot". As for the interwiki mapping, which is an interesting topic for 
sure, wans't there something relevant about this in the recent 
Snow/Wales open letter? That is, and there was something about this 
before on this list, there is a data structure that bots use to automate 
interwiki linking, and it seems the WMF is bringing it out into the open 
in some way? This is one of the more cheering pieces of news I've heard 
from the Foundation recently. More details would be welcome.

Charles