[WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

[geni]

On 15 February 2011 11:22, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:33 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We can establish a lower
>> bound since the Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center contains over
>> 1,335,000 biographies.
>
> The 2007 edition of the ODNB (British biographical history) has
> "50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives". What criteria
> are used for the Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center? We don't
> have an article on that, though we do have this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography_and_Genealogy_Master_Index
>
> "The Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) was a printed
> reference index, and is currently a proprietary database published by
> the Gale Research Company. The database indexes more than 15 million
> individuals, living and deceased, covered in more than 1700
> biographical reference sources."
>
> It that something different?
>
> http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=BDMI&edition
>
> Carcharoth


It's something listed at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons


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geni