Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles

Raul654 writes "Today Wikipedia reached the 300,000 article mark. Wikipedia is a 3-year-old non-profit project to build an encyclopedia using WikiWiki software. All text is licensed under the GFDL. It has everything that a traditional encyclopedia would, but also many things that would never get written about, such as Crushing by elephant and the GNU/Linux naming controversy. For size comparisons, the English Wikipedia has 90.1 million words across 300,000 articles, compared to Britannica's 55 million words across 85,000 articles. (All the languages combined together reach 790,000 articles.) For much of the first half of 2004, Wikipedia's growth has outstripped server capacity - however, the shortage of PHP/MySQL developers is probably the biggest long term problem facing the project. Slashdot had previously reported when Wikipedia reached the 200,000 mark."

Comments

The name

[Anonymous Coward]

300000 entries and still the single gayest name for it that they could have come up with.

MySQL a problem? PostgreSQL should save coding.

[leandrod]

MySQL forces one to do much coding due to its incompleteness and misimplementation of the SQL standard. PostgreSQL should save some, potentially lots of, coding.

A truly relational system should be even better, like Alphora Dataphor, but this is not free.

Re:Wiki, I spam therefore I am

[NineNine]

Again, you're assuming that the "masses" are right. I'd much rather read an article about genetics by one, intelligent, educated, geneticist, than one by 10,000 average Joe's who picked up their genetics knowlege on Google. If anything has been shown in history, is that the masses can be real morons. Slavery? Nazis? Witch burning? Stoning? I'll stick with readong stuff written by people with an education, thank you.