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

[Oldak Quill]

2008/4/26 Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com>:
> 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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