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I like the idea of demonstrating the impressive size of Wikipedia by printing a book. However, the article withholds important base information: * Which paper
by vog 16y ago
I like the idea of demonstrating the impressive size of Wikipedia by printing a book. However, the article withholds important base information:
* Which paper format and size has been used? (Letter? A4?)
* How big are the page margins?
* Is it printed one-sided or two-sided?
* Which font and font-size have been used?
* What line-distance has been used? (100%, 150%, ... ?)
* What does the "0.01%" refer to? (to the number of words, or just to the number of articles?)
Without this information, the given facts like "5000 pages" are almost meaningless.
- chalst 16y agoAccording to http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/ http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/ it has 5000 pages, consisting of just the WP featured articles. No example typeset pages are given.
- Jabbles 16y agoThe latest results aren't available yet, but the most recent word count of 6 billion dates from Nov 09. 0.01% of that over 5000 pages would give 120 words per page. Something is missing. Nor does the "0.01%" refer to the number of articles. The author's website says this is a printout of the (English) "Featured articles" (currently 3235). Neither dividing that by the number of English articles (3.6M) or total articles (18.1M) gives 0.01%. So I can't see where they got 0.01% from. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/ http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/
- vog 16y agoAlthough I appreciate your effort, I don't think it makes any sense that we try figure this out on our own. It's the task of the author, not the readers, to deliver those facts.
- camiller 16y agoSome of the comments at the article site seem to be from the author. One of them says they selected 400 articles from the featured articles and at the time that was 0.013% of all the articles.
- estel 16y agoThis story dates from June 2009, but taking into account the article counts from this date (2.9 million, 13.6 million for English / all respectively) doesn't account for the disparity in numbers.
- brudgers 16y ago>"Is it printed one-sided or two-sided?" From the first photo it appears to be one sided
- beej71 16y agoIf you've ever thumbed through the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, you'll know these are all very valid questions. :)