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The size of the English Wikipedia can be measured in terms of the number of articles, number of words, number of pages, and the size of the database, among other ways. As of 19 December 2024, there are 6,926,453 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.7 billion words (giving a mean of about 688 words per article).
> 15,000 words: Almost certainly should be divided or trimmed. > 9,000 words: Probably should be divided or trimmed, though the scope of a topic can sometimes justify the added reading material. > 8,000 words: May need to be divided or trimmed; likelihood goes up with size. < 6,000 words: Length alone does not justify division or trimming ...
ASCII uses 1 byte/character which in turn implies 8.3 characters/word. However, this includes wikimarkup, and 5 char/word plus one for space or punctuation mark is standard, so 6 characters/word will be assumed. There are currently 6,926,187 articles, which means 4.76667115527 × 10 ^ 9 words, which means 4.76667115527 × 10 ^ 9 characters.
Excluding redirect pages, there are roughly (using figures from May 1, 2004): 261,000 articles that have at least a single link. 239,000 articles that have at least a single link and 200 readable characters (roughly equivalent to at least 33 words). Taking the difference of these two figures, there are about:
An image estimating the size of a printed version of Wikipedia as of February 2022. (Up-to-date image using volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica)Currently, the English Wikipedia alone has over 6,921,416 articles of any length, and the combined Wikipedias for all other languages greatly exceed the English Wikipedia in size, giving more than 29 billion words in 55 million articles in 309 ...
This would be time-consuming. It would be much faster if the reader had a listing of how many words are on each page. From this listing they could determine which page the 5,000th word appears on, and how many words to count on that page. This listing of the words per page of the book is analogous to a page table of a computer file system. [5]
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That said many many studies have been done about the 10,000 word count for readability and reader retention. I assume everyone has the capability of searching this. Moxy - 23:01, 6 July 2023 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]