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wikipedia.com
When will the English Wikipedia have five million articles?
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Stephen Tilley in
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Settled on 11/05/2015 22:02 Settled by
kruijs
Stephen Tilley in
Technology
» Internet
Settled on 11/05/2015 22:02 Settled by
kruijsWinning option:2015 Today! (Nov 1st 2015)...months earlier than most people predicted.
Interestingly though - the best estimate for reaching six million is...*NEVER*! The growth of Wikipedia is asymptoting to zero growth well before we hit the six million mark. That kinda implies that Wikipedia will soon have all important human knowledge stored away in it's servers for everyone in the world to read. This is a truly astounding human achievement which is up there with getting a man on the moon or decoding the human genome.
Interestingly though - the best estimate for reaching six million is...*NEVER*! The growth of Wikipedia is asymptoting to zero growth well before we hit the six million mark. That kinda implies that Wikipedia will soon have all important human knowledge stored away in it's servers for everyone in the world to read. This is a truly astounding human achievement which is up there with getting a man on the moon or decoding the human genome.
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This is discussed in length at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Wikipedia_growth
As of February 10, 2015 there are 4,715,543 articles in the English Wikipedia.
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