Jimbo wrote:
I'm not yet convinced that there's any need for it, but we really need some wordcount statistics to have a grasp of what would be needed.
As of Feb 26, 2004 there were 66.7 million words in the English Wikipedia (217,000 articles; 2214 characters/article). Source: http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm
Encyclop�dia Britannica's 2002 edition (a full general encyclopedia) has 55 million words (85,000 articles; 3882 characters/article). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (a concise encyclopedia) has a word count of 6.5 million words (51,000 articles; 765 characters/article). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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