On 16/02/2011 23:56, Carcharoth wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:54 PM, David
Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There's a *heck* of a lot still to be
written.
On that topic, I came across this interesting essay:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia_extended_growth
It tries to project to the year 2025!
I'd be interested in any discussion at
all on the amount of useful
material out there (on the Web) and how it is changing. It is a fact
that there are more and more reliable sources posted that can be used to
create articles. This is a factor that affects directly what actually
gets written, as opposed to what potentially might be a topic to write
about.
I think we just don't know how much will be around in 2025 that could
support our work, either in the form of public domain reference
material, or respectable scholarly webpages to which we can link.
Extrapolations leaving out this factor aren't worth as much as they
might be.
Charles