Wikipedia:Size in volumes
This page displays the current size of the English Wikipedia (without images) in print volumes, per mathematical calculation.
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Assumptions and calculations[edit]
- This shows 3,009 million words[not in citation given] across 5.1 million articles (as of March 2016), implying an average of 590 words per article.
- Same source shows 24.313 GB (=24,896,225,000 bytes) across 3,009 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 5,183,858 articles, which means 3,058,476,220 words, which means 18,350,857,320 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. (Pictures not included!)
- Thus, the text of the English Wikipedia is currently equivalent to Encyclopædia Britannica. 2,293.9 volumes of the
- Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume. This would imply 2,224 volumes for WP.
First bullet source[1] only contains wordcount data from 2010 (1.798 million). 2.9 billion found by multiplying 2010 avg word-per-article (580) to current number of articles (5 mil). 2.95 bil found when multiplying current article by words-per-article count of 590[where?].
Print Wikipedia[edit]
In June 2015, artist Michael Mandiberg (User:Theredproject) generated a 7,473 volume print-ready collection of the English Wikipedia in PDF format, printed wallpaper representing the spines of the books, and printed over 100 volumes through print on demand service Lulu, as part of an art installation at the Denny Gallery in New York City. The table of contents alone took 91 volumes to list the nearly 11.5 million articles.[2][3]
See also[edit]
- Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Size comparisons
- Wikipedia:Statistics
- How much would Wikipedia cost? (calculation details at the talk page)
- Size of all Wikipedia versions in volumes (Meta-Wiki)
References[edit]
- ^ https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
- ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (16 June 2015). "Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ "Github site mandiberg/printwikipedia". Retrieved 2015-07-02.
External links[edit]
- "Wikipedia Encyclopedia as a Printed Book". Labno.org. 15 July 2012.
- "What if? Updating a Printed Wikipedia". xkcd. August 2013.
- "The Wikipedia Books Project: We'll print the complete English Wikipedia in 1000 books". PediaPress via Indiegogo. 2014.