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The browser page size includes the size of the rendered HTML as well as any resources such as scripts, images, style sheets, or other content loaded by the browser. The size can vary based on the browser, which files have been cached, and Wikipedia preferences.
The MediaWiki software, which generates the HTML of a page from its wiki source, uses a parser to deal with included data. This is done using a "preprocessor" which converts the wikitext into a data structure known as an XML tree, and then uses this tree to produce "expanded" wikitext, where double- and triple-braced structures are replaced by their result.
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 30 January 2025, there are 6,946,792 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.7 billion words (giving a mean of about 690 words per article).
Size of Wikipedia – by number of articles, number of words, and gigabytes of data; Size of Wikipedia in volumes – to see the size of Wikipedia in print encyclopedia volumes; Size comparisons – comparisons against other encyclopedias and information collections {} – template to display Wikimedia Foundation site stats
In the Wikipedia database, each page is assigned a "random index", which is a random floating point number uniformly distributed between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive). The "random article" feature (Special:Random) chooses a random double-precision floating-point number , and returns the next article whose random index is greater than the ...
See the Width section of Help:Table.To summarize, max-width is the preferred way to limit widths on tables. It works on divs too. Note though that in both tables and divs there needs to be spaces in long lines of text or wikitext.
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 6,943,076 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 ...
Use |upright=scaling factor to adjust the size of images; for example, |upright=1.3 displays an image 30% larger than the default, and |upright=0.60 displays it 40% smaller. Lead images should usually be no larger than |upright=1.35 .