[Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"

[Oldak Quill]

2008/4/26 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>:
> Out of curiosity, how many pages would it take to package the English Wikipedia?

In its entirety?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2007.svg
:

"Using volumes 25cm high and 5cm thick (some 400 pages), each page
having two columns, each columns having 80 rows, and each row having
50 characters, ≈ 6MB per volume. As English Wikipedia has around 7.5GB
of text (August 2007, length of wikitext counted by myself) ≈ 1250
volumes. Note that this is a conservative estimate, as it doesn't
include images, tables etc. which take up more surface than the text
which describes them."

Using pages with dimensions described here; 400 pages x 1250 volumes =
500 000 pages of text in August 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes uses another
method to calculate size in volumes, using a live measure of size, and
arrives at "equivalen[ce] to 766 volumes of the Encyclopædia
Britannica". 500 x 766 = 383 000
Britannica-sized leaves. Again, this seems to ignore images, tables, &c.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)