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Welcome to ANI In the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing
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of all the goings ons, ins, and arounds, our 10 ideas at Bay School.
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So today was another beautiful day here under the tent.
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We had our lawn mowed over the weekend and got some nice clover popping up amongst all
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the low trimmed grass.
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And speaking of the weekend, we had a nice Friday movie night.
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I guess it was Howl's Moving Castle.
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It was a good crowd that showed up, nice socially distanced, and we had a nice little fire going
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out of a fire pit on the side, and it was all very pleasant and nice.
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It was quite an enjoyable evening.
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Thanks to everyone who came out for it.
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Let's see.
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We had Monday announcements today, and what have we got going on this week?
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Well, we'll be discussing the returning staff election on Thursday.
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We've got some practice defenses throughout the week.
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We have kind of a finalized form for the self-assessment transcript.
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Like this is the last week for any submissions involving the yearbook.
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And there was a field trip meeting about, I think, going to the beach.
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I don't know the results of that, but they were inquiring about our budget.
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So that's nice.
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And yeah, there was some usual tetherball and swinging, and I guess we did a little
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bit of role playing, a group, and yeah, lots of nice activities going around, had a short
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JC today, and we're going to have our cleaners coming tonight.
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So I've got to make sure everything's straightened up, and that is that.
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And let's see, what else?
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Yeah, I think that's all I got for now.
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And so I guess I'll do Millions Monday.
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So the theme this week, I think, is going to be something about like a kind of a Wikipedia
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knowledge out there on the internet, maybe some YouTube stuff, I don't know, those kinds
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of things, and so I thought today, I'd just try and figure out just how big Wikipedia
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is.
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So roughly speaking, you can download a copy of Wikipedia itself.
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I think it's on the order of 10 gigabytes or so, 10 to 100, somewhere in that range.
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Not quite sure if that involves a bunch of the entire history of all the edits, probably,
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so maybe there's a thin version of just the current one.
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We'll just go with the thin version.
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So I want to know how many articles there are.
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So if I know it's something like 10 gigabytes, I don't know how big a typical article is,
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but the text doesn't take up much space, fun little fact, my PhD thesis, which is 150 pages,
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was something like 100 kilobytes.
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So certainly one web page shouldn't be that bad.
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However, there are various images related to these articles and so forth.
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A lot of it's SVG, which is a text format for drawing things, so that doesn't take up
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much, but a lot of them are also just actual photos of things and so forth.
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So I'm just going to go with 100 kilobytes a page.
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So a gigabyte is 10 100 kilobytes pages, and then a gigabyte is 1000 of those megabytes.
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So that's 10,000 pages.
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And then if there's 10 of that, that's 100,000.
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And if it's actually closer to 100 gigabytes, then that would be like a million.
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So something on the order of somewhere between 100,000 and a million pages.
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So Wikipedia has a Wikipedia statistics page where it tells you about some things.
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And it says currently the English Wikipedia includes 6.3 million articles, and it averages
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594 new articles per day.
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So if it's 600 new articles a day, then in one month, it sounds like, let's see what
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was it, 600 times 30, so 6000 times three, 18,000 in a month, and then times 10 is 180,000
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in a year, say 200,000 in a year.
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It's been around for say 20 years, say, so yeah, it's roughly 4 million.
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So all the right new ballpark.
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Let's see, some other interesting bits.
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Well, so it says 6.3 million articles, but then it says 53 million pages.
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So I don't know, maybe that's, I don't really know, history and talk and stuff, but it's
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still, I'm not really sure what that means.
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User pages too, I don't know.
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Files, so this is probably all the images and so forth, that is 900,000 files.
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And number of edits, 1 billion edits.
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Number of users is 40 million, admins 1,096.
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Seems like a very specific number.
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And active users, I do not know what that means, is about 100 registered users who have
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performed an action in the last 30 days, the number of unregistered active users is not
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compiled.
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So that's about 140,000.
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So those are some of the statistics of Wikipedia.
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It's big, people, it's big.
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So at, well, clearly at 600 articles per day, in order to read all of Wikipedia, you need
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to be reading more than that.
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And probably 1,000 to 2,000 articles a day would be what you would need to do in order
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to get through all of Wikipedia in, say, 10 years.
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Which needless to say is not something, I can't even read 1,000 to 2,000 article names,
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let alone the actual articles.
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Let's just put it this way, you'll never run out of anything to read on Wikipedia.
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If you so choose to wonder, it's mini-halls.
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All right, well, I guess that's enough for now, although I guess I do just want to...
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So I did a little quick Google search and it seems like YouTube has about 500 hours
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of fresh video per minute being uploaded, which is 30,000 hours of new content per hour,
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720,000 hours of new content per day.
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And 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube every single day.
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And YouTube gets over 30 million visitors per day.
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Let's see, if 30 million visitors per day, then those, that doesn't sound like a lot
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of visitors.
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It really doesn't sound like a lot, I'm not sure.
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And then there's 30 million, so 100, maybe 200 videos in a day to watch 5 billion videos?
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Those statistics don't make a lot of sense to me.
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Oh, well, in any event, all right, I guess that is enough for today and I will sign off.
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So have a good one everybody, and I will see you when I see you.