São Paulo – One million, one hundred and ninety-three thousand and fourteen pages, hardcover and text in black and white. May well be the printed version of the world’s largest digital encyclopedia, Wikipedia . Rave
- 02/21/2014 | Samsung S5 as Apple prepares Xiaomi shaking and industry
21/02/2014 | Google buys company that fights fraud in advertising
21/02/2014 | From destitute immigrant to millionaire thanks to WhatsApp
21/02/2014 | agreement with Google is not a gentleman, says chief antitrust
this is the goal of a campaign of collective funding site Indiegogo. The action seeks to raise $ 50 000 (about U.S. $ 120,000) to print four million articles on the site.
Behind the campaign is PediaPress, an official partner of the Wikimedia Foundation. “We think the best way to understand the true scale of Wikipedia is turning it into a physical medium, ie, in the book,” says the staff in the main campaign.
period for donation goes until April 11. It is time to beça, and tell from what has been raised since the campaign began in February 11, the chances are great project to fruition. Until Sunday morning (23), the action already had $ 10 thousand.
The initial plan is to print books on greyscale, although the team did not discard the color printing, case exceed the minimum order value.
If
ahead, the big book of Wikipedia, which is all in English, will make its world “debut” at Wikimania conference, held in London in August.
Then follow for exhibitions around the world, and in the end will be donated to a “great public library,” the team said.
‘ll have to be a very large library even – in practice, it must accommodate a thousand volumes with 1200 pages each. There shelf.
No comments:
Post a Comment