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Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-information-is-good-information dept.

CanadaDave writes "The Wikipedia.org project to create a 'complete and accurate free content encyclopedia' has just surpassed 200,000 articles, an increase from 100,000 just 1 year ago. Join in on the celebrations. Some work has been done on predicting Wikipedia's growth and others are already planning for the 500,000 articles over all languages press release. In related news, the project has recently received $20,000 worth of Linux server equipment (9 machines) in hopes to improve performance of the site, which has been prone to downtime over the past year. The servers are being tested right now and will be up and running soon. The purchase was made possible by the many donations the Wikimedia project received in 2003."

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  1. Re:Hmm.. by dysprosia · · Score: 5, Informative

    With a thousand eyes, all bugs/errors/vandalism/junk is shallow... There's always someone watching out for junk. There's a Recent Changes page which shows all edits made, so one can monitor from there.

  2. Re:Hmm.. by General+Wesc · · Score: 5, Informative

    They do. All the time. Then, within a couple seconds, a non-troll reverts it. Check the edit history of the Hitler article some time. :-)

  3. Re:Hmm.. by glop · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are a few things that reduce the trolling.
    First, trolling on Wikipedia is no fun since the system allows it. There is no sport, no hacking. It just seems stupid.
    Second, many people can see the troll and all of them are allowed to correct it by restoring a former version of the post. So anybody can fight the troll.
    Finally, the administrators of wikipedia can lock some pages and forbid edition by trolls (by blocking their IP address).

    As you can see, Wikipedia is not defenseless !

  4. Re:Reference validity and competition by General+Wesc · · Score: 5, Informative

    The "Fuck" article was once cited in a court document in the US. (Reference)

  5. Re:Hmm.. by Pakaran2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yep... I'd say at any given time there's 5-6 people looking out for vandalism. Also, people who do it regularly tend to get temporarily blocked from editing; this happens dozens of times a day, actually. Unlike slashdot, because anyone can edit anything, the junk seems to get cleaned up quite quickly.

    I know that you know this, but I'm just clarifying for the benefit of the slashdot community...

  6. Re:Wikipedia is great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ummm... No, you didn't. No rats in any of the revisions.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Malla rd &action=history