[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia v. Britannica

[Richard Grevers]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:22:40 -0700, Jimmy Wales <jwales at 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=britannica&clist=158032f0dd&pc=B_2004DLX&cc=allcats
>
> 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
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