[WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

[Gwern Branwen]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:17 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 February 2011 20:04, Fences&Windows
> <fences_and_windows at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> From: Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com>
>
>>>2. Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met (currently 3.5 million
>>>of an estimated 4.4 million articles)
>
>> You think there are only 4.4 million possible topics? Based on what criteria?
>
>
> I recall someone (Ray Saintonge?) working out there'd be at least 20
> million, just going on placenames and politicians that are currently
> in all the large WPs. Anyone got a link on hand to that?

Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus/Wikipedia_interwiki_and_specialized_knowledge_test

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