Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles

Faraaz Damji (frazzydee) writes "The English Wikipedia has reached 500,000 full-length articles. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia collaboratively edited by thousands of users worldwide, and the article count has been increasing every day. Thanks to all the users who make it happen, especially the ones who put in hours every day writing to make this invaluable resource that we all love."

Comments

thanks?! what thanks..

[flumps]

All special users link not working....

Guess they weren't all that special eh.

Re:thanks?! what thanks..

[Chess_the_cat]

Wikipedia: Where people named "BUSH IS A GREAT CRIMINAL", "Wikipedia Sucks", and "X_0_X_$exyGirl_232" are considered authorities on any given subject.

But...

[Anonymous Coward]

192,584 of those are related to David Hasselhoff, of which 29,219 are related to Knight Rider.

Re:But...

[mav[LAG]]

If you're the creative genius behind these customer reviews then thanks for much laughter over the years.

From the Amazon page:

* 2 people recommended Love Songs of the Tone-Deaf in addition to Looking For-Best of David Hasselhoff [IMPORT]
* 2 people recommended Viral Diarrheas of Man and Animals instead of Looking For-Best of David Hasselhoff [IMPORT]

pbranes (565105) Social Security Number

[Anonymous Coward]

"Wikipedia is a living example of how information demands to be free. "

SSN#:
LET ME OUT! I CAN'T BREATH!

Wikipedia Galactica

[Piewalker]

And then one day Wikipedia will go through puberty and finally become WIKIPEDIA GALACTICA, with 10^17 entries, even more stubs and peer-reviewed by not just individuals, but meta-moderated by civilizations..."We who became one", "We who survived" and, of course, "Humanity".

500,000 full-length articles...

[Dystopian Rebel]

with well over 25% factually correct!

Re:You must be kidding, right?

[88NoSoup4U88]

I thought I had met every single last closed-minded person when I went to university, but I was wrong. The remaining group went on to author 'articles' for Wikipedia.

Some even became Anonymous Cowards on /.

recursive

[Sv-Manowar]

Here's a wikipedia article involving slashdot. Karma_Whore
Some info on what Karma Whore's goals are. Karma Whore has three stated purposes: to post information about a topic that everyone already knows; to link to wikipedia, because wikipedia pwns

Oh damn, now I'm in a loop

Britannica

[Citizen of Earth]

But how can this Wikipedia thing exist if it is not listed in Encyclopedia Britannica, which, since its authors say is better, must surely be the authoritative guide to everything?

Re:I don't follow slashdot wikipedia links anymore

[jayloden]

What was that link again?

Re:I always find the quantity of non-english artic

[adolfojp]

Do not anthropomorphize my information!!!

Cheers,
Adolfo

Children of the Encyclopedia World

[CarpetShark]

Well, Encyclopædia Britannica is listed in Wikipedia, which obviously makes EB some sort of child of Wikipedia. Since EB is unaware of its parentage, we can only assume it's some sort of poor orphan child, or... err... something less legitimate ;)

Re:Distorted by techy stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

There cannot be a "zillion" entries, as zillion is not a real number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zillion

RTFW

Would you care to name some other acronyms for COW that you know of? (Note: You cannot list anything thats listed on wikipedia already)

Oh, Sweet Recursion

[Jameth]

For anyone who doesn't know about wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Re:I always find the quantity of non-english artic

[ikkonoishi]

But information wants to be anthropomorphized.

It makes it feel all warm and fuzzy.

Re:I always find the quantity of non-english artic

[Anonymous Coward]

some evidence would appropriate.

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