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Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guidehttp://www.lifehacker.com [Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide] My homepage is set at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage, which means every time I open my browser I have a random "Hey, I didn't know that!" moment even if I only intended to check my email or something. It's pretty fun.

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Slashdot.orghttp://slashdot.org [Slashdot.org] Slashdot | Wikipedia Hits 300000 Articles: For size comparisons, the English Wikipedia has 90.1 million words across 300,000 articles, compared to Britannica's 55 million words across 85,000 articles. (All the languages combined together reach 790,000 articles.) For much of the first half of 2004, Wikipedia's growth has outstripped server capacity - however, the shortage of PHP/MySQL developers is probably the biggest long term problem facing the project.

http://muadib.blogspot.com [Muadib.blogspot.com] Jumbled thoughts from a jumbled mind: Alexandria .. or something close: The problem with a file this large is that most GUI (or web) tools will simply choke, curl up and die at the sheer size. It's possible (theoretically) to get this done via GUI by splitting the file into managable chunks or something similar, but err..

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