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Browser page size: the total size of the page as loaded by a web browser. The article size impacts usability in multiple ways: Reader issues , such as attention span , readability, organization, information saturation, etc. (when articles are large); and fragmentation and duplication of related information the reader may be seeking over ...
Word count is commonly used by translators to determine the price of a translation job. Word counts may also be used to calculate measures of readability and to measure typing and reading speeds (usually in words per minute). When converting character counts to words, a measure of 5 or 6 characters to a word is generally used for English. [1]
One volume: 25cm high, 5cm thick. 500 leaves, 2 pagefaces per leaf, 2 columns per pageface, 80 rows/column, 50 characters per row. So one volume = 8,000,000 characters, or 1,333,333 words, or 1,937.4 articles. (Pictures not included!) Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume.
A word could store a 13-digit number with sign and 2-digit index, or one instruction. NORC used four sets of 66 electrostatic tubes in parallel for memory. Each of the tubes in a set of 66 stored one bit of each of 500 words, so each of the four sets of 66 tubes stored 2,000 words.
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Many bring up fair arguments, such as potential overflow of FACs, lack of reviewers, and loss of quality main page TFAs. Other FAC reviewers argue that any article which meets Wikipedia's notability requirements can become featured. So, should a 500-word (or less) article be able to make FA? Featured articles under 400 words have been proposed.
500 Words, which has been running since 2011, challenges children in two age categories (five to seven and eight to 11) to write a story they would enjoy reading in 500 words or less, 50 finalists ...
This page examines a couple of trends loosely associated with quality: the number of words per article, and the number of revisions per article. In the graph below, which deals with the English Wikipedia , the number of articles (blue, multiplied by 1,000) and revisions (yellow, right hand scale) is increasing very much faster than is the ...