After fifteen long time of providing eleventh - hour copy+paste material for high schoolers , theEnglish - linguistic communication version of Wikipediahas just strike a milepost : five million article .
The article that pushed the site over the sharpness wasthis entryon persoonia terminalis , a shrub aboriginal to eastern Australia ( at least , accord to Wikipedia ) . It was written by Cas Liber , an Australian volunteer with 1,500 article to his name .
In a statement on the milestone , theWikipedia communityreminded everyone that there ’s a long way to go : by their calculation , 100 million articles will be need to cover the sum of all human cognition . Even then , many of the five million existing article are naughtily - edited and inaccurate , and it will take fourth dimension ( and a lot more edits ) to bring them up to scratch .
[ Wikimedia Blog ]
InternetWikipedia
Daily Newsletter
Get the skillful tech , science , and culture news program in your inbox daily .
news program from the future , delivered to your nowadays .
You May Also Like
