[WikiEN-l] Imagine if Wikipedia was printed

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/12 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That's 980 Britannica-sized volumes. Or about 15 sets of Britannica.
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> That's smaller than I thought. We obviously have a lot of very small articles.

We had a lot of very small articles in 2006, which is when we last got
statistics on the lengths of articles. That 990 volumes (did we write
another 10 between when David checked and when I did?) is based on
current article numbers, but 2006 article lengths. Hopefully we'll get
a full database dump soon and we'll get accurate length stats.