German publisher wants to print Wikipedia - TeK.sapo

The German publisher PediaPress wants to do what many have devised, but few have considered executable: print Wikipedia. The German group is using the collaborative funding to achieve the feat, asking 50,000 euros in the IndieGoGo platform.

If the idea goes ahead, then it will need a thousand books of 1,200 pages each to print the four thousand million articles that the English version of “Internet encyclopedia” currently has. Pages are numbered sequentially from book to book, it is estimated that the entire Wikipedia on paper will have 1,193,014 pages

But the project also has a meaning:. Showing how big Wikipedia is and alert netizens that all the knowledge that exists in the platform is the result of collaboration of 20 million people.

The books will then be exhibited at the Wikimania 2014 conference will take place in London in August. To this effect will be placed in a separate “library” that will have 2.5 meters in height and more than ten meters long.

constant updating is one of the characteristics of Wikipedia and the promoters of the initiative also had this concept in mind:. during the exhibition will be a dedicated printing all changes that are made online printer

Say those responsible for the initiative that if a lot of interest, then the Wikipedia in your paper version can come to do a world tour demo. If the amount able to overcome large scale that was originally requested, there is still the possibility of printing to be done in color and not gray.

The PediaPress is a German publisher who has published several books using the content and knowledge that are published in Wikipedia.

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