Delirium wrote:
I think we need to split out versions somewhere else, because we're looking for concise articles, not full encyclopedia articles. Simply marking [[World War II]] as "ready for print" doesn't do anything towards getting us a good one-to-two-paragraph summary of World War II.
Maybe you're right. Probably you're right.
But I wonder. It's up to us, presumably, to determine the content, although of course we want the result to be useful.
We have 214,720 articles. Let's assume that this is a total of X pages. But we need to hypothetically pare it down to X/3, i.e. 1/3 as much total content.
We can pare it down by editing longer articles into shorter articles. Or we can (also) pare it down by simply omitting articles that aren't as "important" in some sense.
I have here a very old concise encyclopedia. It's printed with 3 columns of text.
World War II takes up 2 full pages of fairly fine print. Francis Scott Key takes up about 1/3 of 1 column, i.e. about 1/9th of a page.
The Wikipedia entry looks similar to the Francis Scott Key entry. Our World War II entry looks similar, too.
I'm going to try to get an estimate of how many words are in Wikipedia, and how many words are in this book. That'll give us a better idea of what we're looking at.
--Jimbo