Image:Size of English Wikipedia.svg
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Size_of_English_Wikipedia.svg (SVG file, nominally 600 × 300 pixels, file size: 19 KB)
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Size of English Wikipedia in October 2006. Today, it is around 70% larger. Using volumes 25cm high and 5cm thick (some 400 leaves), each page having two columns, each columns having 80 rows, and each row having 50 characters, ≈ 6MB per volume. As English Wikipedia has 4.4GB of text (October 2006) ≈ 750 volumes. Note that this is a conservative estimate, as it doesn't include images, tables, templates etc. which probably take up more surface than the text which describes them. The grid has 1x1 meter squares, and the person should be 180 centimeters tall. It is actually silhouette of the man from the Pioneer plaques. I used volume and shelf sizes of some encyclopedias I have. Inspiration for this image came to me from the main reading room of the National Library of Serbia which, aside its main reading space, has two loooooong shelves, the left one filled with various book indices, and the right one with various encyclopedias and dictionaries, including works in a number of languages, some from 19th century (I think it even has 1911 EB). All Wikipedias printed together would probably fill that shelf entirely... and the other one, next year. |
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| current | 23:53, 21 January 2007 | 600×300 (19 KB) | Nikola Smolenski | (Miscalculation) |
| 23:26, 21 January 2007 | 300×300 (12 KB) | Nikola Smolenski | ({{Information |Description=Size of English Wikipedia |Source=own work |Date=2007-01-22 |Author=User:Nikola Smolenski |Permission=own work }}) |
