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Anybody recognize that the number of articles stopped increasing after a couple of years? As of today it is virtually impossible for a new wikipedia author to
by jsilence 15y ago
Anybody recognize that the number of articles stopped increasing after a couple of years?
As of today it is virtually impossible for a new wikipedia author to add a new article to the german Wikipedia. It will be deleted within a blink.
But hey, if this means that the world knowledge is asymptotically converging to a maximum, there is hope that we'll someday know it all, after all.
-jsl
- beaumartinez 15y agoConfusingly, by default, the graph is on a logarithmic scale. You can change it to a linear one, try it and see; it looks like its growth is constant. Although I too would like to think we are converging towards having cataloged all knowledge, if Wikipedia's growth is slowing down, I'd bet it's because of all of its bureaucracy.