On 13 Jul 2003 at 23:02, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:28:04PM +0200,
Youandme wrote:
The size of wp-en sql dump is 421407730 bytes
(July 8, 2003)
if the ratio of rough text to sql dump & wikicode of wikipage is (let's say)
0.90,
then the price for the translation en->pl would be ~253000 zlotys (~= 64400 USD)
I can't repeat these numbers, not any computation error ?
Oops... another
error. I've forgotten to mutiply by the cost of one page.
So my estimation is 31 times higher: 7 843 000 zlotys (~= 1 997 000 USD)
Some googling (tl/umaczenie angielski, first hit)
showed
1800 chars (including punctuation) per page, 30 zloty per page,
Standards are
different but I agree that 1800 chars per page
(instead of 1500 per page) is more common in Poland (my past experience says so).
select sum(length(cur_text)) from cur;
378 523 585
pages (1800 chars = 1 page)
210 290.88
cost (30 zloty / page)
6 308 726.4 zloty
cost (4 EUR / zloty, hehe)
1 577 181.6 EUR
So you see, we are talking about MILLIONS! :)
Who will pay for that? :)
That's before multiplying by char:byte ratio, which I guess is
something like 1:5 (but we should measure, not guess).
Oh, and we can ignore RamBot stuff that makes some 20% of Wikipedia,
and get some bulk discount ;)
Including that, and 20% discount, that's 807 516.98 zloty or
182 580.07 euro (4.42281 zloty / euro, according to