Filed on Jul 21st 2008 in Technology, Culture & Society
A rare case of moving from web to print as a portion of Wikipedia goes to hardcopy
Most of us are accustomed to seeing information originally from print reference sources posted online in some form or another. Now, in a reversal of this familiar pattern, we are about to see a web creation made available in print format.
It was announced at the Wikipedia conference in Alexandria that the online encyclopedia was about to join forces with the publisher Bertelsmann to put out a one volume encyclopedia featuring the 25,000,000 most popular articles from the German version of Wikepedia.
Anyone who has in any way contributed to one of the articles will be credited, resulting in a volume with the most credited authors ever. It is scheduled to go on sale in September for the euro equivalent of about $32. Read more in, A Book With 90,000 authors, featured in the New York Times.
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