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English Wikipedia Reaches 3 Million Articles
FunPika writes "It has taken more than eight years and the work of vast numbers of people around the world, but the English version of Wikipedia has finally amassed more than three million articles.
The site broke through the 3 million barrier early on Monday morning UK time, with the honors taken by a short article about Norwegian actor Beate Eriksen — a 48-year-old cast member of a popular local soap opera."
The site broke through the 3 million barrier, with the honors taken by a short article about Norwegian actor Beate Eriksen
And then the Wiki editors quickly deleted this article for being not important enough.
And for those of you keeping track, that's roughly 50,000 non-Manga/anime/Simpson's related articles.
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Pity that two million of them are hopelessly biased toward whatever agenda has the most dweebs willing to re-write the articles 40 times a day.
Beate Eriksen (who?) will be more famous for being the 3,000,000th wiki article than for his acting skills.
Trolling is a art,
You could count them, but that would be original research.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
And no, you can't go to Wikipedia and count, because that would be "original research." Wait for someone to tweet about it - THERE's your proof.
;)
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
Poor Beate. He now knows he's only the 3 millionth thing people got around to caring about.
Beate baby - gotta work on your rep! Get a new agent. Have a scandal with an underage girl. No wait, this is Norway, make it a boy. You'll never make it into the post-apocalyptic ark that Norway is building in the Fjords at this rate!
I am personally waiting for it to reach 3294199.
(For those of you mathematically illiterate that number is pi*(2^20).)
Wake me up when we get there.
in other news, the english Wikipedia is expected to reach 2.5 million articles by friday, when all the deletionists are back from their holidays and are back on track again.
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Congratulations to Wikipedia for celebrating this historic ***ERIC IS A FAG*** milestone, only 750 years in the making!
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
Have you gone through his posting history? Seriously, read my entire post instead of just one sentence. I tell you, this man is brilliant.
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the same way you know (if you're a native English speaker) that "the big red ball" is correct and "the red big ball" is incorrect. Nobody taught you that.
Me and my friends can disagree that language is best recieved by example instead of from the the educations.
Ah... associativity. Luckily, lojban will help solve this ambiguity. People just need to learn it. Quick, everyone get out of the universe!
How many lojban speakers does it take to fix a broken light bulb?
Three. One to fix the bulb, and two to argue about what kind of bulb emits broken light.
Interesting.
True, but I would argue that Ebonics is a more valid and complete language/dialect, being that it arose naturally.
For those who haven't studied linguistics, yes, every dialect has its own grammatical rules. Those who speak a dialect learn the rules by example rather than from books - the same way you know (if you're a native English speaker) that "the big red ball" is correct and "the red big ball" is incorrect. Nobody taught you that. Most of the rules of language, in fact, are embedded in your brain before you ever go to school - how else could you talk?
I suggest you go to Columbus, Ga and try to order something more complicated than "number 7 with Coke" from the drive-through.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.