David Gerard wrote:
A vastly important consideration is that text is
remarkably harder to
read on a screen than on paper. The 32K article that's a lot of work
to read on screen is a lot easier to read on a printout - but almost
no-one (comparatively) will be reading a printout. 32K is when your
eyes fall off the screen, if not well before.
Important maybe but I'm not sure about vastly. It needs to be weighed
against other factors such as the fact that screens aren't going to be
the only way of viewing Wikipedia content downstream and that many
people don't read whole articles but often refer to parts of articles.
Christiaan