Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles

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Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 6, 2004 @08:35PM from the tends-to-rock-rather-hard dept.

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."

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Celebration! by Big+Nothing · 2004-07-06 20:37 · Score: 3, Funny

"Today Wikipedia reached the 300,000 article mark"

Whohoooo! Let's celebrate by slashdotting the site!

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1. Re: Celebration! by Black+Parrot · 2004-07-06 21:32 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  > > actually Wikipedia is busier than slashdot, according to Alexa.
  
  > Wow - I did not know that. So in the future I should cry "Whohooo - let's Wiki slashdot"?
  
  I think the verb is "wikipee".
  
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Slashdot by Seft · 2004-07-06 20:40 · Score: 5, Funny

I'd also like to congratulate Slashdot on their 113692th article...
1. Re:Slashdot by ledow · 2004-07-06 20:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  113692nd, not "th", surely.
  
  How to name numbers
2. Re:Slashdot by ColaMan · 2004-07-06 22:03 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Its what's in your mouf.
  
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Goatse by iswm · 2004-07-06 20:42 · Score: 4, Funny

And I'm proud to say I contributed to the goatse.cx article.

May his memory live on.

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stack of 60's era encylopedia americana by michaelbuddy · 2004-07-06 20:46 · Score: 5, Funny

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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The real advantage is to Wikipedia is.... by Zorilla · 2004-07-06 20:48 · Score: 3, Funny

...not having that damn annoying Encyclopedia Britannica kid around.

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Re:Congrats! by Big+Nothing · 2004-07-06 21:11 · Score: 5, Funny

"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!

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Click! Click! Click! by CGP314 · 2004-07-06 21:14 · Score: 4, Funny

What's that sound? It's hundreds of responsible wikipedians clicking `revert' to hold back the flood of slashdot trolls.

-Colin
Link like wiki by CGP314 · 2004-07-06 21:39 · Score: 4, Funny

In celebration of this momentous occasion, I suggest that all slashdot posts be formatted in the wiki style.
Re:Size doesn't matters by Guignol · 2004-07-07 00:32 · Score: 3, Funny

Yes but this idea Planck had back then is very outdated now
err...
Re:Perhaps they should add... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-07 00:48 · Score: 3, Funny

They already have!
:-)
Re:Random page by FatalTourist · 2004-07-07 02:02 · Score: 4, Funny

There goes the last sliver of a chance of me getting any work done ever.

Thanks :)

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