The massive 'unbelievable' of Wikipedia's encyclopedia opens

Wikipedia's online open encyclopedia contains all the articles about anything people can imagine. Many people are curious to know, if all this information is printed on paper, how many books will they make?

How massive is the Wikipedia open encyclopedia?

American artist Michael Mandiberg has answered this question by calculating the entire content of Wikipedia . The purpose of this project is also to explain in detail about 1 petabyte, equivalent to 1 million gigabytes (GB).

According to experts, 1 GB may contain the same amount of information as the contents of 1,000 books.

"Books are really useful units of knowledge. We don't know how long it takes people to read 1 Gb or 50Gb of data (equivalent to the amount of information in Wikipedia databases). However, we know how long it will take us to finish reading a book , " Mandiberg said in an interview with CBS News.

In total, Wikipedia's online encyclopedia has over 11,594,743 articles . Mandiberg artist wrote a software to download each article's data to a database and then write another program to organize them all. The whole process takes 25 days to complete.

If you print all the existing Wikipedia content on paper, we will have all 7,473 books . Mandiberg actually printed 106 of these books and showed the rest by drawing them on a display rack.

You can buy this unique collection for $ 500,000. Although Mandiberg is not too optimistic about being able to sell this collection, he believes that people will want to buy some books, which now cost $ 80 per book.