[WikiEN-l] One article, 12 volumes, and a snapshot of how news becomes history

[Andrew Gray]

On 12 September 2010 10:00, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Its an interesting way to look at an article. IIRC, I pushed people
> into naming it "Iraq War" to begin with - back when it was still
> called something less neutral - "invasion" or such. The current
> article is 193K? in size.. what's that in pages?

Not counting footnotes and so on, it's approximately 16,000 words; say
40-50 pages of a book, or about a normal chapter. Which seems right,
for a "very large article".

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- Andrew Gray
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