Wikipedia is big website with millions of content, there is no doubt on it, but do you ever wonder, how many volumes it would take to print English wikipedia.
A wikipedia user Tompw makes an estimated calculations that English wikipedia(only text no images and other graphical content) would fit on an approx. 1907 volumes in size of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
- This shows 2,537 million words across 4.3 million articles (through July 2013), implying an average of 590 words per article.
- Same source shows 19.83 GB (=20,498,960 B) across 2,537 million words, implying 8.08 bytes/word. ASCII uses 1 byte/character which in turn implies 8.08 characters/word. However, this includes wikimarkup, and 5 char/word plus one for space is standard, so 6 characters/word will be assumed.
- There are currently 4,311,575 articles, which means 2,543,829,250 words, which means 15,262,975,500 characters.
- One volume: 25cm high, 5cm thick. 500 leaves, 2 pagefaces per leaf, two columns per pageface, 80 rows/column, 50 characters per row. So one volume = 8,000,000 characters, or 1,333,333 words, or 2,259.9 articles.
- Thus, the text of the English Wikipedia is currently equivalent to 1,907.9 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
- Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume. This would imply 1,850 volumes for WP.
Source- Wikipedia
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