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Three Million Articles for English Wikipedia

CmdrTaco at Slashdot is reporting that the English version of Wikipedia now has three million articles. The Mail & Guardian Online posted an article a few days prior that considers the future of Wikipedia after this milestone. From the article:

In other words, a change by a casual editor is more likely than ever to be overturned, while changes by the elite are rarely questioned. “To power users it feels like Wikipedia operates in the way it always has — but for the newcomers or the occasional users, they feel like the resistance in the community has definitely changed.”