[WikiEN-l] Re: "The 32K limit made me do it"

Mon Feb 28 23:15:09 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

> A vastly important consideration is that text is remarkably harder to 
> read on a screen than on paper. The 32K article that's a lot of work 
> to read on screen is a lot easier to read on a printout - but almost 
> no-one (comparatively) will be reading a printout. 32K is when your 
> eyes fall off the screen, if not well before.

Important maybe but I'm not sure about vastly. It needs to be weighed 
against other factors such as the fact that screens aren't going to be 
the only way of viewing Wikipedia content downstream and that many 
people don't read whole articles but often refer to parts of articles.

Christiaan