[Wikipedia-l] Inquiry from a reporter

[Sascha Noyes]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 02:22 pm, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> 1.  Is there a graph or chart somewhere showing the number of
> wikipedia articles at different points in time?
>

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

> 2. Some time ago, I saw where someone had done a comparison of
> Britannica versus Wikipedia articles, some 200 articles compared as I
> recall.  Where is that?  How old is it?  Have there been other
> comparisons done?

There are two quality comparisons that I am aware of:
 I can only find one at the moment, though:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_Quality_Survey

Also, for comparing wikipedia with britannica and encarta quantitatively, I 
have done the following:

http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Snoyes/compare

Best,
Sascha Noyes
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