[WikiEN-l] Re: Selecting content of print version

Fri Mar 5 18:19:54 UTC 2004

Charles Matthews wrote:

>Jimmy Wales wrote
>
>>Wikipedia Print articles will be selected by an internal process that
>>we're going to iron out as we get a better grasp on the size
>>requirements and exactly what we're going to need to do.
>>
>A propos that, I had a look last night at the Cambridge Encyclopedia (ed.
>David Crystal), which is a very large single volume hardback.  The stats
>were:
>
>- 40000 articles
>- 2 million words.
>
It could be interesting (if it weren't so much work) to produce a 
comparative table showing on an article by article basis whether or not 
each encyclopedia has an article on the topic.   :-)

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