The longest wikipedia article is list of glagolitic manuscripts, which is 1,325,631 bytes long I have been blocked for a year for reasons that were given by an administrator after i attempted an appeal: The average length of a wikipedia article is about 658 words
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The english wikipedia has 6,714,921 articles, which contain over 4.3 billion words
Wikipedia is edited over 2 times every second, 547 new articles are added each day.
It appears english wikipedia would not be 6 million pages It is currently 6,694,000+ articles So basically triple to quadruple the numbers above Print wikipedia was over 7,000 volumes back.
Since wikipedia is open source, there are many ways to download the entire database listed here with instructions, including an sql database, html dumps, and anywhere else you can download it, with slimmed down versions specifically to fit on a flash drive or a set of dvds, or downloads without images/less popular pages in order to make the download smaller The easiest way by far is to use. People who still think wikipedia is some completely unreliable source of information. I maintain a personal list of what i consider to be some of the most interesting wikipedia articles and, having recently reached 500 entries, i figured i'd share it
You can find it here
Fair warning, many of the articles are macabre with a lot of murders, disasters and disappearances scattered throughout the list. The are asking and it borders on scam This article on it is from 2015 but its essentially the same situation The foundation is flush with cash yet paints the picture that wikipedia might go off line any time now of you dont help
You can look at their own data and see that revenue (excluding 3rd party donations!) exceeds expenses. Don't donate to wikipedia, the people that do the actual work don't get paid at all, donate to them instead, wikipedia gets plenty of donations from corporations and such Wikipedia's own creator says you shouldn't trust wikipedia in an article, with their history erasing / manipulation and political bias no one should. For context, i am a beginner at editing wikipedia and having doing so for a year up until now
