On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:22:40 -0700, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> gave
utterance to the following:
According to their website, Britannica's Deluxe
Edition 2004 CD
has 75,000 articles.
http://store.britannica.com/escalate/store/DetailPage?pls=britannica&bc…
Presumably, many of these are longer and of higher quality than our
150,000 English-language articles.
From our groovy new stats tool, we know that the
average Wikipedia
article is 2,115 bytes. Perhaps of greater interest, 53% of our
articles, or right around 75,000, are longer than 1,500 bytes.
So a question naturally comes to mind - how do our 75,000 >1,500 byte
articles stack up again Britannica's 75,000 articles?
But aren't a third of those 1500-byte+ articles the machine-generated ones
on US small towns?
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Richard Grevers
I'm not lost - I'm directionally challenged