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Wikipedia Planning a DVD Version

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the encylopedia-netannica dept.

daria42 writes "The Wikipedia Foundation hopes to sell an English version of Wikipedia on CD-ROM and DVD before the end of the year. A boxed set of the German language version of Wikipedia has been available since last year. An updated version of the German Wikipedia was launched on Amazon.de this week, and the e-commerce site has received 8,000 pre-orders, according to Wikipedia Foundation president Jimmy Wales. Wales said it was easier to put the German version of Wikipedia onto CD as there are significantly less pages than there are for the English language version. He said that English Wikipedia would 'barely fit on 2 DVDs.'"

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  1. Another reason the German version fits on CD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Frequent mentions of David Hassellhoff compress really well.

    1. Re:Another reason the German version fits on CD by Stevyn · · Score: 5, Funny

      AndbecauseGermansdonotwastebytesonspaces

    2. Re:Another reason the German version fits on CD by the+pickle · · Score: 5, Funny

      I believe what you meant was "Onderspacen Der Deutschennobegewastenderbytesen."

      p

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    3. Re:Another reason the German version fits on CD by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny
      in the English language constructs like this exist as well (e.g. railway consists of two nouns). The only difference is that those speaking English are not free to make up new ones.

      That's right. "Railway", for example, derives from "railuswayus" and was not concatenated by English speakers. We also didn't coin "email", "Internet", or "loudspeaker" - we borrowed those from Swahili.

      I'd go into more detail, but I'm off to check my voicemail and weblog (Spanish).

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  2. Re:Whaaa? by amliebsch · · Score: 5, Funny
    Where did this figure of two DVDs come from?

    Well, when you add in the theatrical trailers, "making of" featurette, production stills, and commentary tracks... What I want to know is, will it be in Dolby Digital 7.1?

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  3. Re:Whaaa? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, not all of us are connected to the Internet 24/7.

    What the hell's wrong with you?