How many words are there in the English Wikipedia's article base? And how many volumes (formatted like the Britannica or Americana) would it take to publish them all?
Ed Poor
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How many words are there in the English Wikipedia's article base? And how many volumes (formatted like the Britannica or Americana) would it take to publish them all?
Ed Poor
According to Erik Zachte's brilliant scripts, the en.Wikipedia had 166 Million Words on March 9.
According to Wikipedia, the 32-volume EB has 44 million words.
According to my calculator, that's 1.375 million words per volume.
So, we are talking about 120 volumes of an imaginary printed Wikipedia March 05 edition. Plus minus 30, I might guess.
Mathias