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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."
For instance, over 200,000 articles in German
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Sorry about that, the link is Special:Listusers I tried to email the on-duty editor, but they didn't see it on time :-(
I don't know about spam, but none of these are "Stubs". As per TFA: Wikipedia currently has 501783 articles. That number excludes discussion pages, articles without links to other articles, very short ("stub") articles and pages about Wikipedia. Including these, we have 1405147 pages.
Well, believe it or not, instructions for downloading the entire database is located here Which makes me wonder how many of the 500,000 articles are "Wikipedia" articles, or are those not counted?
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No, he's probably talking about some retarded filtering policy. I get the same raw deal at my school.
Neither of those becomes definitive, if there is controverisy, then simply both points of view are explained. Its called Neutral Point of View.
### If I post an article, clearly linked, reporting a new scientific discovery, are the "wikipeers" qualified to process the "peer review" that filters most scientific reports?
No, such an articel wolud either be rewritten or removed, since Wikipedia is not the place for original research.
There's no Flash player for my platform (ppc Linux), but I know IBM has done similar research:
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Wikimedia and Wikipedia are developed by a very international team. The two elected board members are actually from the U.K. and France. Volunteers come from all over the world.
... but the two-letter abbreviations are ISO 639 language names, not (an obsolete) ISO 3166 country code (which also are used as internet domain name suffixes). This is why the English wikipedia is en.wikipedia.org, not us, uk or au. Or nz, I suppose. Languages don't map nicely to countries; there are languages that span many countries (English), countries with more than one official language (Switzerland) and languages with no country (Esperanto).
In this case, "su" refers to the Sundanese language. You probably wanted to link to the Russian Wikipedia, with ISO-639-2 code 'ru'.
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