[Wikipedia-l] 100,000 articles...

[João Mário Miranda]

Chuck Smith wrote:
> 
> Hey, I was just thinking today about how quickly we're
> writing new articles and I was wondering if anyone
> (looks around for mathematicians/statisticians) could
> calculate the exponential curve for the growth of
> wikipedia and based on that try to guesstimate
> travelling at the same exponential speed when we will
> hit the 100,000 article mark.  There's your math
> homework for the day, brought to you by Wikipedia.

With some imperfect data I got the equation:

Articles=1.6*Days^1.6077

Days=Days after January 15 2000.

That means we will have 100 000 articles in August 2003.

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joão
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