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#Due to the nature of PSB (print publication, not easily updated) and my own observation (how many Poles who have articles on Wikipedia are not listed in PSB), it should be noted that PSB does not represent perfect coverage in its area. But for now I assume that the number of articles about Poles Wiki has that are not on PSB, and the number of missing articles from Wikipedia that are covered on PSB evens out.
Conclusion (as of June '06): assuming PSB represents the average coverage of specialized knowledge on (English) Wikipedia, Wikipedia has covers currently about 3% of such knowledge. If 3% = 1,350,000 articles, than 100% would equal, roughly, 40,000,000 (40 million) articles. Therefore Wikipedia will be approaching somewhat comprehensive coverage of specialized knowledge when we have about 40,000,000 articles. This is a very rough estimate, but it is my reply to some people who said there is not enough encyclopedic knowledge [[Wikipedia:Two-million pool|to merit 2,000,000 articles]], as well as to the very optimistic estimates of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles]] (Biographies - 92.6% done ?? who are they kidding? :D )
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# 8 Dec 2010. 'Kisielinski-Korzelinski' 58. 'Olbrycht-Pawleta' - 66; 'Ebenberger-Gembicki' - 60. ~6%, and double the coverage of 2007. Wikipiedia at that time had about 3,500,000 articles.
Updated conclusion (as of February '11): It appears that Wikipedia is growing faster in some other areas than in Polish biographies. Wikipedia coverage of Polish biographies have doubled between June '06 and December '10, but its total number of articles has grown almost threefold in that period (well, around 2.6 times). If we were to take June '09 or Dec '10 numbers and try to estimate the size of complete Wikipedia, we would get the number of ~60 million instead of 40, as the June '06 data would suggest. Of course, as the growth in Polish biographies have not kept pace with the growth of Wikipedia, it is obvious that it is hardly a perfect estimator. Assuming it is some kind of an estimator, we might as well take an average of those two results and call the ultimate, comprehensive size 50 million.
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