[WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

On 14 February 2011 20:04, Fences&Windows
<fences_and_windows at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:16:12 +0000
> From: Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia
>
>>This encyclopedia has been rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale.
>>This encyclopedia has been checked against the following criteria for
>>B-Class status:
> <snip>
>>2. Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met (currently 3.5 million
>>of an estimated 4.4 million articles)
> <snip>
>
> You think there are only 4.4 million possible topics? Based on what criteria?
> Stevertigo also thought this in the essay Wikipedia:Concept limit, which I
> tagged as [citation needed]. There are probably tens of millions of potentially
> notable topics, if not hundreds of millions. However, we're better at deleting
> new articles than writing them and writing a new article that will survive these
> days requires more detailed research than in years gone by.

I agree. There are far more than 4.4 million possible topics. Consider
all the human settlements that we could write articles about. There
could well be millions of those (I really don't know how many there
are).