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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."
"Today Wikipedia reached the 300,000 article mark"
Whohoooo! Let's celebrate by slashdotting the site!
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I'd also like to congratulate Slashdot on their 113692th article...
And I'm proud to say I contributed to the goatse.cx article.
May his memory live on.
Buckethead
I miss my stack of 38 dusty encyclopedias my father forced me to use when I asked him a question back in gradeschool. That's where you score REAL knowledge. According to wikipedia, we've sinced landed on the MOON? Umm, I think not. Back to the books I think for some legitimate fact checking.
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...not having that damn annoying Encyclopedia Britannica kid around.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
What's your grudge against Wikipedia? Why do you want to destroy it by giving it government funding?
"So this isn't very informative but I just wanted to say how much I like Wikipedia."
Aparantly, the moderators disagree with you and mods you informative. Or rather, they agree with you and mod you... Or, they... agree, I mean disagree... with... or... AAAARGH! I sprained my brain!
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
What's that sound? It's hundreds of responsible wikipedians clicking `revert' to hold back the flood of slashdot trolls.
-Colin
> Wikipedia, from that standpoint, is at the opposite end of the spectrum from traditional, commercial journalism. Its authors have all the time in the world to get things right, check facts, correct bad wording, improve clarity. The quality of the entries is generally astounding. And if anything is wrong with an entry, we readers can become writers and correct it ourselves!
And for the most part it works, but unfortunately - just like with the rest of the internet - there are plenty of 45540135 who can't resist inserting their racism, nationalism, religionism, or other fanatic ideology into various articles. Also pseudoscientific kooks who like to set up camp on their favorite article and continually combat all attempts to correct it.
Use with caution, especially on exotic topics where there aren't enough experts to keep up with the kooks. If it's something you really want to be informed on, look at the page history to see whether it is a battleground. If it looks like one person is continually undoing everything ten others are trying to do, be wary of that person's edits.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
In celebration of this momentous occasion, I suggest that all slashdot posts be formatted in the wiki style.
Wikipedia will be its primary data base and starting point for universal understanding. Unfortunately it will go on to encounter /. and learn of the deleterious effects of a steady diet of drugs and pr0n. Slashdotters in return will discover the sentient being and /. its underlying Beowulf cluster turing it to slag destroying the logos life form
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
This may sound really strange, but has anyone noticed how Wil Wheaton's website shows up in the shock site page?
With wiki, Osama Bin Laden can edit the entry for Jihad, there is far less chance that he will have anything to do with the entry in say the Britannica.
Yes but this idea Planck had back then is very outdated now
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They already have!
:-)
My father's encyclopedia described Uranium as "a useless white metal."
There goes the last sliver of a chance of me getting any work done ever.
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Sure, that's what he wants us to think, as he wastes Enterprise resources to troll Slashdot.
I used to have it do that. The problem I ran in to was that I would get a lot of "Town Profiles" about small towns in the middle of Greenland with a population that was smaller than the town's average temperature in Kelvin.
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