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The current size of English Wikipedia per logical mathematical calculation.
786 volumes
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[edit] Assumptions
- This shows 609m words across 1.4m articles (for 30/10/06), implying 435 words per article
- Same source shows 4.4 GB (=4,724,464,025 B) across 609m words, implying 7.75B/word. ASCII uses 1B/character which in turn implies 7.75 characters/word. However, this includes wikimarkup, and 5 char/word plus one for space is standard, 6 characters/word will be assumed.
- However there are now 2,406,167 articles, which means &0000001046682645.0000001,046,682,645 words, which means &0000006280095870.0000006,280,095,870 characters.
- One volume: 25cm high, 5cm thick. 500 leaves, 2 pagefaces per leaf, two columns per pageface, 80 rows/column, 50 characters per row. So one volume = &0000000008000000.0000008.0E+6 characters, or &0000000001333333.0000001,333,333 words.
- Thus WP is currently equivalent to &0000000000000785.000000785 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume. This would imply &0000000000000761.000000761 volumes for WP.
- Orginal source: User:Tompw/bookshelf
