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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 14 January 2025, there are 6,939,683 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.7 billion words (giving a mean of about 690 words per article).
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 1,931.7 articles. (Pictures not included!) Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume.
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 6,938,324 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 ...
A page of about 10,000 words takes between 30 and 40 minutes to read at average speed, which is close to the attention span of most readers. [1] Understanding of standard texts at average reading speed is around 65%.
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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.
Camilla’s comments came as the 2024 edition of the writing contest launched on Tuesday.
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