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* Our likelihood of success seems alarmingly high. Our getting 100,000 articles is definitely not out of the question. At the current rate of growth, we'll do that in four years (2005). Indeed, it's also far from impossible that we could have 1,000,000 articles someday ([[1]] recently announced they had 1,000,000 nodes); there are, surely, 1,000,000 topics of discussion in existence, and if Wikipedia hits it big, or even simply continues on as it has been, which seems plausible, then they might all be covered...eventually. It also seems rather likely that there will always be a lot of mediocre stuff. But it's possible--how likely we'd be able to tell after more months of experience--that articles would just gradually improve until they were polished to a Nupedia polish. We've already seen many instances of this. |
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* Our likelihood of success seems alarmingly high. Our getting 100,000 articles is definitely not out of the question. At the current rate of growth, we'll do that in four years (2005). Indeed, it's also far from impossible that we could have 1,000,000 articles someday (Everything2 recently announced they had 1,000,000 nodes); there are, surely, 1,000,000 topics of discussion in existence, and if Wikipedia hits it big, or even simply continues on as it has been, which seems plausible, then they might all be covered...eventually. It also seems rather likely that there will always be a lot of mediocre stuff. But it's possible--how likely we'd be able to tell after more months of experience--that articles would just gradually improve until they were polished to a Nupedia polish. We've already seen many instances of this. |
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