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Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]

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Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]

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languagehacker wrote: post #190
atdt wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you arrive at 20 million? This sounds like one of those "technically true" facts that are cooked up for investors. http://wikis.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Wikia_wikis puts the combined total of the top 1,000 wikis (in all languages) at 12.4m.

20 million pages, not wikis -- sorry if I mistyped?

There aren't 20 million pages. Read my comment again.

Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]

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atdt wrote: post #191
languagehacker wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 million pages, not wikis -- sorry if I mistyped?

There aren't 20 million pages. Read my comment again.

There are over 300,000 wikis. I usually worked with the top ten thousand English wikis, which had over 15 million pages.

Or I'm just making the number up. Doesn't really matter to me.

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