English Wikipedia Reaches 3 Million Articles 192
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."
And then it was proptly deleted (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:And then it was proptly deleted (Score:5, Funny)
And that's... (Score:5, Funny)
And for those of you keeping track, that's roughly 50,000 non-Manga/anime/Simpson's related articles.
3 million eh? (Score:0, Funny)
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.
Crazy but true. (Score:5, Funny)
Beate Eriksen (who?) will be more famous for being the 3,000,000th wiki article than for his acting skills.
Re:The "3 million barrier" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The "3 million barrier" (Score:4, Funny)
Beate Ericksen! (Score:3, Funny)
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!
What's special about three million? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:And that's... (Score:5, Funny)
[citation needed] [wikia.com]
Re:Crazy but true. (Score:5, Funny)
Especially when you can't even get her gender right.
Re:What's special about three million? (Score:2, Funny)
For sufficiently large values of 3.
on friday (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Holding out for the 30 millionth article... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And then it was proptly deleted (Score:5, Funny)
For instance:
Pokemon [wikipedia.org] compared to Animal [wikipedia.org]
Wizard [wikipedia.org] compared to Scientist [wikipedia.org]
Afghan Civil War [wikipedia.org] compared to Marvel Civil War [wikipedia.org]
Emperor Palpatine [wikipedia.org] compared to Emperor Charles IV [wikipedia.org]
Klingon Language [wikipedia.org] compared to Mandarin Chinese [wikipedia.org]
Re:And then it was proptly deleted (Score:2, Funny)
Well, Francis Holburne just got slashdotted, so he's probably more noteworthy now.
Re:Beate Ericksen! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What's special about three million? (Score:1, Funny)
Well I'm waiting for article 3811170.
(For those of you mathematically illiterate that number is tan(sqrt(2.4555))^e.)
Re:It's come a long way (Score:4, Funny)
Have you gone through his posting history? Seriously, read my entire post instead of just one sentence. I tell you, this man is brilliant.
Re:And then it was proptly deleted (Score:3, Funny)
What's the problem with the extra articles? They don't interfere with the "real" ones (whichever those are), and the category system serves to, well... categorise them. I've never come across an article on Pokemon, X-files or Star Trek, but if I needed some information on them I'd know where to look^W^W^W^Wkill myself.
Re:Ebonics, etc (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Ebonics, etc (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Ebonics, etc (Score:5, Funny)
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.