User:Drbogdan/STATS
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WIKIPEDIA SIZE COMPARISON - a/o 08/13/2019
http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons#Comparison_of_encyclopedias
Calculations
Wikipedia est words/wiki-eng => 6.4×102 words/article TIMES 6.7×106 articles-eng => 43.14×108 total words (a/o 20211104)
Wikipedia est words/wiki-eng => 6.4×102 words/article TIMES 6.2×106 articles-eng => 39.68×108 total words (a/o 20210101)
Wikipedia est words/wiki-eng => 6.4×102 words/article TIMES 5.9×106 articles-eng => 37.76×108 total words - old
EncyBrit est words/2013print => 6.5×102 words/article TIMES 4.0×104 articles => 0.26×108 total words
EncyBrit est words/online => 3.7×102 words/article TIMES 12.0×104 articles => 0.44×108 total words
Conclusions
Wikipedia is "over 166 times" larger than EncyBrit/2013print (43.14/0.26 = 152.62 times) (a/o 20231114)
Wikipedia is "over 98 times" larger than EncyBrit/online (43.14/0.44 = 90.18 times) (a/o 20231114)
Wikipedia is "over 145 times" larger than EncyBrit/2013print (39.68/0.26 = 152.62 times) (a/o 20210101)
Wikipedia is "over 90 times" larger than EncyBrit/online (39.68/0.44 = 90.18 times) (a/o 20210101)
Wikipedia is "over 85 times" larger than EncyBrit/online (37.76/0.44 = 85.82 times) - old
As of 11:12, September 7, 2024 (UTC).
TOTAL
[edit]63,635,861 => Total Wikipedia articles
ENGLISH
[edit]6,879,693 => English articles
6,879,693 => English2 articles
SIMPLE
[edit]
256,366 => Simple articles
(Overview by Dr. Dennis Bogdan)WIKIPEDIA – The 5th most popular site on the Internet, was launched on January 15, 2001 (1st edit by co-founder Jimmy Wales), is currently published in over 300 languages, has been freely available worldwide for 23 years, 7 months and 23 days – Wikipedia has 63,635,861 total articles (6,879,693 in English (stats); 256,366 in Simple English) – *VITAL ARTICLES*: 10–100–1000; *BEST ARTICLES*: 51,193; *POPULAR ARTICLES*: Last 24 hours; Last Week: Top25; Top5000 – and has (for the English version) 850 administrators and 115,659 active editors (includes over 1,400 stated PhDs and over 130 MDs) – as of 11:12, September 7, 2024 (UTC).
- Wikipedia => Is "over 90 times" the size of Encyclopedia Britannica (2021). (calc)
- Wikipedia => Is encoded in synthetic DNA strands (2019).
- Wikipedia => Is laser-etched in glass on the Moon (2019).
- Wikipedia => Is available as 7,473 Books for $500,000 (2015).
- Wikipedia => Is honored with a Monument (2014).
- Wikipedia => Is the name of an Asteroid (2013).
- Wikipedia => "Is one of the Jewels in the internet’s crown."
- Wikipedia => "Nos Auxilium Facere Interrete Non Lactaverunt."
- Wikipedia => "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's what we're doing."