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Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

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598 points leotravis10 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source
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djoldman ◴[04 Sep 25 16:30 UTC] No.45129069[source]▶
> Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects.

but:

> The collections of the Library of Congress include more than 32 million catalogued books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 61 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress#Holdings

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1. Jordan-117 ◴[04 Sep 25 16:44 UTC] No.45129221[source]▶
To me, "compendium" means a single organized reference, not a collection of many different individual works. More encyclopedia than library.