Is Wikipedia bigger than encyclopedia?
Wikipedia currently has a total of 6,412,511 articles and as of December 12, 2013 had over 17.8 billion words in its English edition. It dwarfs the largest traditional English-language encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica online, which in December 2004 had an estimated 120,000 articles and 77 million words.
What is the size of an encyclopedia?
Encyclopaedias have come in all sizes, from a single 200-page volume written by one man to giant sets of 100 volumes or more.
What is the largest encyclopedia in the world?
The largest encyclopaedia is the ‘Dubai Icon’ which is 3.08 m (10 ft 1.25 in) in length and 3.20 m (10 ft 5.98 in) in width when closed, and was achieved by Aafaq Islamic Finance (UAE), as measured in Dubai, UAE, on 8 November 2016. The entire encyclopedia weighs 6,500 kilograms.
How big is the Encyclopedia Britannica in GB?
The last year the Encyclopaedia Britannica was printed was 2010. That final edition consists of 32 volumes, weighs nearly 130 pounds, and contains approximately 50 million words and 300 million characters. It requires roughly one gigabyte (GB) of disk space to store the entire text of that final volume.
How big is the Encyclopedia Britannica?
Over 70 years, the size of the Britannica has remained steady, with about 40 million words on half a million topics. Though published in the United States since 1901, the Britannica has for the most part maintained British English spelling.
Which is the largest free encyclopedia on the Internet?
The largest encyclopedia online has a total of 55,632,716 articles, and was achieved by Wikipedia, as verified on 18 January 2020. Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (both USA) as a free online encyclopedia that internet users can add to and edit. Wikipedia.com was launched on 15 January 2001.
How big is the Wikipedia?
Another measure can be found at Wikipedia Statistics. Wikipedia Statistics database sizes last recored the database size of the English wikipedia in 2009 as 11 GB and the size has roughly doubled since then. You can download the text as compressed xml.
What is the size of Wikipedia articles compressed?
As of 20 April 2021, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 19.52 GB. Wikipedia continues to grow, and the number of articles in Wikipedia is increasing by over 17,000 a month.
What determines the size of a Wikipedia database?
There are various elements of the Wikipedia database to consider when describing its size. The most obvious include the markup text of the articles, templates, media/file descriptions, and primary meta-pages that would be needed to render the text of the latest version of the current encyclopedia proper.
How many articles are there in Wikipedia?
This Wikipedia:Statistics page measures the size of the English-language edition of Wikipedia; mostly page and article count, with some information on the more complicated question of the size of the database. As of 4 November 2018, there are 5,745,763 articles in the English Wikipedia.