Wikipedia Reaches 2 Million Articles
From the New York Times:
At the Wikimania conference in Taipei, this weekend there was a group of volunteers active in editing the online encyclopedia who started calling themselves “The Old-Codgers Coalition.” Like many at the conference, they were trying to cope with the impact of the site’s popularity.
These days, Wikipedia editors bandy various guidelines and rules of thumb for assessing the merit of articles. The old codgers have proudly followed the credo “Ignore All Rules.”
Success has also meant that there is less so-called “low-hanging fruit,” articles to write from scratch about important subjects. And finally, success means that Wikipedia has become too big for states around the world to ignore.