How does that compare with, let us say, the number of articles in Encyclopedia Britannica?
Wales: Britannica has some eighty thousand articles, I believe, but you should check. But this is really not a fair comparison, simply because they tend to have very large articles, while we tend to break things down into smaller articles. They will have, for example, one very large article about World War II. On the same subject, we will carve it up into twenty different articles. The main article would then link to sub-articles, so article count is a little tricky. In terms of words, we’re about four times the size of Britannica last time I checked. It’s probably more than that right now. Cole: We talk about the nature of Wikipedia—its size and its languages— but how does it actually work? There is no actual venue, right? When we think about Encyclopedia Britannica, we think that there’s this editorial office somewhere, and there are these editors and editorial assistants, and they’re sending out requests and then they’re getting articles back. We think a lot about venue. Wales: Righ
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