Wikipedia talk:WikipediaWeekly/Episode42

Wikipedia's work almost done?
Have you guys looked at articles about the humanities lately? I could name thousands (and if I had time, millions) of articles on the humanities/literature before 1900 in the English language alone. The idea that we're about to hit a cap on articles is false. The only areas that are close to being done are parts of the sciences and articles dealing with more current events, people, and objects. Wrad (talk) 01:11, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Absolutely. We're not even close to halfway begun.
 * See Featured_topics/Saffron applied to every [notable noun]. See c20080213_words_log_w_icons.jpg. See m:Incrementalism.
 * The US Library of Congress includes "more than 30 million catalogued books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 58 million manuscripts ... 4.8 million maps; ... 2.7 million sound recordings ... " etc.
 * There are 1.8 million species to be cataloged at Encyclopedia of Life to start with (of the 2-100 million estimated species that exist (5million+ beetles)).
 * We may have all the 3 person villages in the USA, but the rest of the world has a few unmentioned hamlets and towns...
 * Of the 2.2 million articles we currently have, how many are stub or start class?
 * Plus there are all those distracting sister projects ('pedia interlangs, dictionaries, textbooks, etc).
 * Lots to do yet. -- Quiddity (talk) 06:43, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not finished
[copied from Wikipedia Weekly talk page]

Ah! Please stop staying that there is nothing significant left to add to Wikipedia! Besides the many stubs left to expand and incomplete and unreferenced articles left to brought up to a respectable level, here are a few important articles in my own fields: Practical Education (a important work on educational theory by Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth); Political Justice (one of the most important political treatises in the 18th century by William Godwin, the father of anarchism); The Wanderer (novel) (a novel by Frances Burney, one of the most important novelists of the eighteenth century); and L'Ami des Enfans (a French children's book by Arnaud Berquin, which was important in the formation of the genre of children's literature). I could go on and on. Awadewit | talk  04:37, 4 March 2008 (UTC)