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Wikipedia: The Print Version

Here’s a fun fact to insert in those Britannica vs Wikipedia disucssions. (Of course we all know that this is the shallowest of B&W debates. Each has their place. And Wikipedia plays a key role in the Google and other search engine rankings. EB doesn’t.)
Nikola Smolenski has calculated how much paper it would take to print out the English entries in Wikipedia as she has displayed graphically below.
“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. LINK
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Posted on: September 4, 2007, 3:56 am Category: Uncategorized

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