{"id":11436,"date":"2007-08-29T07:53:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/29\/now-available-with-an-easy-installment-plan.html"},"modified":"2007-08-29T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T14:53:05","slug":"now_available_with_an_eas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/now_available_with_an_eas.html","title":{"rendered":"Now available with an easy installment plan!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So if you were going to make a print version of Wikipedia — leaving out tables and images — how large would it be?<\/p>\n

Pretty darned large<\/a>, according to Nikola Smolenski.<\/p>\n

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Using volumes 25cm high and 5cm thick (some 400 pages), each page having two columns, each columns having 80 rows, and each row having 50 characters, ≈ 6MB per volume. As English Wikipedia has 4.4GB of text (October 2006) ≈ 750 volumes. Note that this is a conservative estimate, as it doesn’t include images, tables etc. which take up more surface than the text which describes them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A far cry from the 20-volume Colliers Encyclopedia I grew up with as a kid.<\/p>\n

Granted, insert controversy over public-managed data (triviality, bias, fabrication) here.  But that’s still a massive <\/em>amount of information, bias is not restricted to public-managed data sources, and I find 99.9% of the data I find in Wikipedia is reliable (and the remaining 0.1% is a matter for critical thinking rather than just accepting it at face value).<\/p>\n

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(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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