"David Gerard" wrote
On 29/08/2007, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
i wonder what the (schools) wikipedia 0.5 equates to? (free to download http://torrentfreak.com/torrents/wpcd.zip.torrent ) Its certainly better than the equivent most homes had in the 80/90s.
Not sure about Wikipedia 0.5 (~2000 articles), but SOS's press release for the Wikipedia Selection for Schools (~4000 articles) says it's equivalent to 15 volumes:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/SOSChildrenUK2007
"The Selection DVD has the content of a 15 volume encyclopaedia - with 24,000 pictures, 14 million words and articles on 4,625 topics."
There doesn't seem to be a standard "volume" used as unit. [[Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Hard_copy_size]] uses a volume more than 50% larger by number of words. Neither of those is close to normal books.
Charles
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