Dan Rosenthal wrote:
I think it would both entertain and not irritate our callers to hear exactly how big Wikimedia projects are, as expressed in various metrics. Examples:
- If you were to view every article on every language Wikipedia, it
would take you X amount of time.
I once calculated that it would take six years to read English Wikipedia cover to cover (er... Main Page to Special:Version).
*If you printed out the German Wikipedia, and stretched it out end to end, it would cover X% of the distance to Mars -- that's Y million American Football fields, or Z billion soccer pitches.
English Wikipedia would have some half million pages (six months ago). Printed on A4 and leaves put side to side - 150 Km.