When we passed 100,000 , 200,000 , 300,000 etc articles there was a fair bit of fanfare.
I think it is only right therefore to announce that en passed the 100,000,000 word mark earlier this month.
This is about the same size as Columbia, Encarta Deluxe and EB put together, and if printed would weigh about the same as George Bush.
Across all languages we reached this milestone back in January, and are now up to 220,000,000 words.
Qualitätsoffensive, anyone?
Pete/Pcb21
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:34:10 +0100, Pete/Pcb21 pete_pcb21_wpmail@pcbartlett.com wrote:
When we passed 100,000 , 200,000 , 300,000 etc articles there was a fair bit of fanfare.
I think it is only right therefore to announce that en passed the 100,000,000 word mark earlier this month.
This is about the same size as Columbia, Encarta Deluxe and EB put together, and if printed would weigh about the same as George Bush.
How many kilos, what kind of paper and how many words pr/page ? (I have no idea how heavy George Bush is (Is this the new measurement for weight in the spirit of "football fields" and "vw beatles"?))
Across all languages we reached this milestone back in January, and are now up to 220,000,000 words.
Qualitätsoffensive, anyone?
Pete/Pcb21
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On 08/17/04 14:34, Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
When we passed 100,000 , 200,000 , 300,000 etc articles there was a fair bit of fanfare. I think it is only right therefore to announce that en passed the 100,000,000 word mark earlier this month. This is about the same size as Columbia, Encarta Deluxe and EB put together, and if printed would weigh about the same as George Bush.
I award you the job of writing the Slashdot story, using that exact weight measurement ;-)
Across all languages we reached this milestone back in January, and are now up to 220,000,000 words.
- d.
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, David Gerard wrote:
On 08/17/04 14:34, Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
When we passed 100,000 , 200,000 , 300,000 etc articles there was a fair bit of fanfare. I think it is only right therefore to announce that en passed the 100,000,000 word mark earlier this month. This is about the same size as Columbia, Encarta Deluxe and EB put together, and if printed would weigh about the same as George Bush.
I award you the job of writing the Slashdot story, using that exact weight measurement ;-)
Much as I like that unit of measure, we do not define in [[George Walker Bush]] just how much he weighs. That might then be a problem. (A spokesman for EB says, ``100 million words, & Wikipedia lacks an entry for George Bush's weight. And they expect us to believe they have all of the facts.")
But not going to add it to the article. It's currently under protection. (Why am I not surprised?)
Across all languages we reached this milestone back in January, and are now up to 220,000,000 words.
Geoff
According to the www: "At his August 2001 physical, Bush was 6 feet 0 inches tall, and weighed 189.75 lbs"
189.75 lbs ~ 86kg
The Second Edition of the OED weighs 62.6kg and consists of 59 million words on 21,730 pages. (http://www.oed.com/about/facts.html).
So assuming the printed WP had the same size volume and type of binding as the OED, it follows after a little calculation that WP would weigh the same as GWB if about 3350 words were put on each page. This is possible if you use a size 8 font and big (OED sized) pages.
The heaviest President was William Taft (1909-1913), at 322lbs. If we are allowed this weight, we could probably use size 10.
Pete
But why not just use "wikipedia printed out would weigh about as much as an average person" or "86kg", when you make comparisons you're trying to illustrate a point, and am i the only one that thought "eeh.... yeah?" instead of "oh cool" upon hearing that, it makes you ponder about GWB not WP.
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:44:48 +0100, Pete/Pcb21 pete_pcb21_wpmail@pcbartlett.com wrote:
According to the www: "At his August 2001 physical, Bush was 6 feet 0 inches tall, and weighed 189.75 lbs"
189.75 lbs ~ 86kg
The Second Edition of the OED weighs 62.6kg and consists of 59 million words on 21,730 pages. (http://www.oed.com/about/facts.html).
So assuming the printed WP had the same size volume and type of binding as the OED, it follows after a little calculation that WP would weigh the same as GWB if about 3350 words were put on each page. This is possible if you use a size 8 font and big (OED sized) pages.
The heaviest President was William Taft (1909-1913), at 322lbs. If we are allowed this weight, we could probably use size 10.
Pete
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
But why not just use "wikipedia printed out would weigh about as much as an average person" or "86kg", when you make comparisons you're trying to illustrate a point, and am i the only one that thought "eeh.... yeah?" instead of "oh cool" upon hearing that, it makes you ponder about GWB not WP.
Humour doesn't travel over the internet well sometimes. Particular bad humour, it appears :).
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" avarab@gmail.com wrote in message news:51dd1af804081801477b4962cd@mail.gmail.com...
But why not just use "wikipedia printed out would weigh about as much as an average person" or "86kg", when you make comparisons you're trying to illustrate a point, and am i the only one that thought "eeh.... yeah?" instead of "oh cool" upon hearing that, it makes you ponder about GWB not WP.
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