[WikiEN-l] Re: article size

Fri May 20 22:09:33 UTC 2005

Incidentally, article size is one area in which "Wikipedia is not 
paper" serves us poorly. In the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia 
Britannica, the article on the Bible is approximately one megabyte in 
size. That decision was presumably made on the basis of style, 
organization, and readability. You can riffle through twenty pages a 
second or more and still glimpse running heads. And the articles in the 
old Britannica are so well-written that you can sit down with them and 
read them from beginning to end.

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