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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: 0.199s | 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. dmbche ◴[04 Sep 25 20:39 UTC] No.45131969[source]▶
From Merriam Webster:

COMPENDIUM Brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract

The library is more extensive, but they don't have the same goals. I'd even argue that part of Wikipedia's quality is it's ability to remain small relative to the knowledge it summarises.