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As of 30 May 2024, there are 6,829,220 articles in the English Wikipedia containing over 4.5 billion words (giving an average of about 668 words per article). The total number of pages is 60,779,711. Articles make up 11.24 percent of all pages on Wikipedia.
Jun 27, 2015 · Amit Agarwal. @labnol. The English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 5 million articles and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of the printed book would roughly be equivalent to 2000+ volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica ( source ).
Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume. Thus, the text of the English Wikipedia is currently equivalent to 3,456.2 volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica. In other words, Wikipedia is approximately 108.01 times the size of Encyclopædia Britannica and that's excluding pictures ...
The edition's one-billionth edit was made on 13 January 2021 by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (Steven Pruitt) who as of that date is the user with the highest number of edits on the English Wikipedia, at over four million. [6] Currently, there are 6,829,162 articles created with 918,027 files.
Wikipedia's growth is still entirely open ended—the project has simplified the problem of where to stop by completely disregarding that question. The number of articles on the English-language Wikipedia might still grow by a factor of three or four, or even more.
A Wikipedia Book (or a Wikipedia Reading list) is a book formed from an organized collection of Wikipedia articles. Their list forms (generally created using the Book Creator tool) are often nowadays hosted in the User namespace in the form of a list of Wikipedia article tiles, some lists may also include for reading only specific sections of ...
