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WIKIPEDIA SIZE COMPARISON - a/o 08/13/2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons#Comparison_of_encyclopedias

Calculations

Wikipedia est words/wiki-eng => 6.4×10² words/article TIMES 6.7×10⁶ articles-eng => 43.14×10⁸ total words (a/o 20211104)

Wikipedia est words/wiki-eng => 6.4×10² words/article TIMES 6.2×10⁶ articles-eng => 39.68×10⁸ total words (a/o 20210101)

Wikipedia est words/wiki-eng => 6.4×10² words/article TIMES 5.9×10⁶ articles-eng => 37.76×10⁸ total words - old

EncyBrit est words/2013print => 6.5×10² words/article TIMES 4.0×10⁴ articles => 0.26×10⁸ total words

EncyBrit est words/online => 3.7×10² words/article TIMES 12.0×10⁴ articles => 0.44×10⁸ total words

Conclusions

Wikipedia is "over 166 times" larger than EncyBrit/2013print (43.14/0.26 = 152.62 times) (a/o 20231114)

Wikipedia is "over 98 times" larger than EncyBrit/online (43.14/0.44 = 90.18 times) (a/o 20231114)

Wikipedia is "over 145 times" larger than EncyBrit/2013print (39.68/0.26 = 152.62 times) (a/o 20210101)

Wikipedia is "over 90 times" larger than EncyBrit/online (39.68/0.44 = 90.18 times) (a/o 20210101)

Wikipedia is "over 85 times" larger than EncyBrit/online (37.76/0.44 = 85.82 times) - old

As of 05:30, January 1, 2025 (UTC).

TOTAL

64,206,224 => Total Wikipedia articles

ENGLISH

6,933,185 => English articles

6,933,185 => English2 articles

SIMPLE

262,419 => Simple articles

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WIKIPEDIA – The Free Encyclopedia

(Overview by Dr. Dennis Bogdan)

Wikipedia Facts

Topics of 1000 randomly sampled articles (2016).

Size of a printed version of Wikipedia (2010).

WIKIPEDIA – The 5th most popular site on the Internet, was launched on January 15, 2001 (1st edit by co-founder Jimmy Wales), is currently published in over 300 languages, has been freely available worldwide for 23 years, 11 months and 17 days – Wikipedia has 64,206,224 total articles (6,933,185 in English (stats); 262,419 in Simple English) – *VITAL ARTICLES*: 10–100–1000; *BEST ARTICLES*: 51,885; *POPULAR ARTICLES*: Last 24 hours; Last Week: Top25; Top5000 – and has (for the English version) 847 administrators and 117,036 active editors (includes over 1,400 stated PhDs and over 130 MDs) – as of 05:30, January 1, 2025 (UTC).

• Wikipedia => Is "over 90 times" the size of Encyclopedia Britannica (2021). (calc)
• Wikipedia => Is encoded in synthetic DNA strands (2019).
• Wikipedia => Is laser-etched in glass on the Moon (2019).
• Wikipedia => Is available as 7,473 Books for $500,000 (2015).
• Wikipedia => Is honored with a Monument (2014).
• Wikipedia => Is the name of an Asteroid (2013).
• Wikipedia => "Is one of the Jewels in the internet’s crown."
• Wikipedia => "Nos Auxilium Facere Interrete Non Lactaverunt."
• Wikipedia => "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's what we're doing."