how many pages would they contain? (please don't tell me of the top of the head, i would appreciate a source)
2007-11-23 03:51:19 · 3 answers · asked by A B 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Encyclopedia Britannica IS an encyclopedia - in book form.
Encyclopedia Britannica: With 2004 Book of the Year (Britannica Books) (Hardcover)
by Britannica Editors (Editor)
Hardcover: 32640 pages
Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica, Incorporated; 2003e.of 15r.e. edition (March 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0852299613
ISBN-13: 978-0852299616
Product Dimensions: 29.8 x 19.2 x 12.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 144.8 pounds
As for Wikipedia, I can't find how many web-pages it supports - yet. But I'll keep trying.
The 2nd site below gives the number of links in Wiki.
A sample:
irst 500 websites/domains by order of number of links in Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an online multilingual encyclopedia written by a multitude of contributors from around the globe. Since its launch in 2001 it has been a colossal force online. Wikipedia uses external links to point out authority sites on the web relating to its content. Below is a ranking list of the top 500 websites by number of links from wikipedia pages.
Some of the urls are understandable such as bbc, yahoo geocities, youtube and ny times. On the other hand there are some surprise entries from such entities as find a grave and the psychic pokemon collection baffle me slightly. Internet newspapers and media enterprises tend to have a good wiki. Major political sites are mentioned on a number of occasions alongside similar encyclopedia sites and major sporting entities. Spiderman mixes with the national trust and mtv alongside detailed writeups of serial killers. The rankings provide a snapshot of life inside one of the biggest online presences. The list is very accurate and accurate to November 23rd 2006.
Enjoy the big names and peculiarities of today's internet.
Number of links in Wikipedia, Website (domain), Title
14410, findagrave.com, Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
12394, en.wikipedia.org, Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
8844, www.geocities.com, Yahoo! GeoCities: Get a free web site with easy-to-use site building tools
8117, news.bbc.co.uk, BBC NEWS, News Front Page
7228, imdb.com, The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
6861, myspace.com, MySpace
5743, bbc.co.uk, BBC - homepage - Home of the BBC on the Internet
3641, youtube.com, YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
3614, maps.google.com, Google Maps
2707, parl.gc.ca, Parliament of Canada - Parlement du Canada
2635, baseball-reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Baseball Statistics and History
2081, newadvent.org, NEW ADVENT: Home
1991, nytimes.com, The New York Times - Breaking News, World News Multimedia
1948, guardian.co.uk, Guardian Unlimited
1928, pbs.org, PBS
1870, allmusic.com, allmusic
1814, web.archive.org, Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
1797, groups.yahoo.com, Yahoo! Groups
1755, tv.com, TV.com
1721, amazon.com, Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs more
1660, biographi.ca, Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online-Dictionnaire biographique du Canada en ligne
1601, history.navy.mil, Naval Historical Center Main Page
1600, nscb.gov.ph, Philippine National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB)
1580, t-macs.com, tBsECTChEj[X
1511, washingtonpost.com, washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines
1489, angelfire.com, Angelfire
1407, navsource.org, Photo Archive Main Index
1369, hockeydb.com, The Internet Hockey Database -- Hockey Statistics, Logos, and Trading Cards
1350, video.google.com, Google Video
1340, members.aol.com, AOL Hometown
1332, nces.ed.gov, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education
1313, mobygames.com, MobyGames - A Game Documentation and Review Project
1283, nps.gov, National Park Service - Experience Your America
1224, multimap.com, Multimap.com - Online Maps to Everywhere
1178, ethnologue.com, Ethnologue, Languages of the World
1143, cnn.com, CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment Video News
1128, globalsecurity.org, GlobalSecurity.org - Reliable Security Information
1123, cbc.ca, CBC.CA - Canada's News, Money, Sports, Health, Technology Science, Consumer Life, Arts, and Kids Information Source"
Well, there are over 1.6 million articles:
In January of last year, Wikipedia sites ranked in the 33rd spot with 18.3 million unique visitors. By July, it had climbed to the 18th spot on the list with 28.1 million unique visitors, and in November it ranked 12th with 39.1 million unique visitors, according to comScore.
In doing its tally for Wikipedia, comScore also counts visits to other Wikimedia sites, like Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and Wikinews, but most of the traffic comes from the Wikipedia encyclopedias, a comScore spokesman said.
Wikipedia started in January 2001 with its English-language site, which currently has more than 1.6 million articles. The Wikipedia project has since grown significantly and has more than 5 million articles in more than 200 languages, according to WikiMedia. Access to Wikipedia is free. Volunteers contribute the encyclopedia's content, which can be edited by anyone accessing the sites."
so that'd be, at a BARE minimum, 1.6 million pages - and that was back in Feb, of 2007.
"Saturday, February 17, 2007"
Lord knows what it is by now.
2007-11-23 04:02:47 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
by using fact Wikipedia can generally be edited by potential of somewhat some human beings, so with that logic, maximum Universities won't deem it as a respected source. whether, i've got continually made the argument that the generalization of Wikipedia grew to become into valid, and could be considered. I used to apply wikipedia as a source to income everyday know-how some subject remember, then i might use that everyday know-how to assist me in greater deeper study for regardless of it grew to become into i grew to become into doing.
2016-10-02 03:48:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be like 5.6 million pages as there is more than 5.6 million articles in Wikipedia
2016-07-06 12:13:21 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋