Wikipedia Planning a DVD Version

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday April 7, 2005 @12:38PM 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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What's their point? by HadesInjustice · 2005-04-07 12:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"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."
Is German smaller in code than English, it not, then what is causing the extra space??? Also, if it can't fit on 2 DVDs, then fit it on 3 then. Its common for digital information to use multiple CD/DVD. Look at Half-Life 2, that is like 4 CDs right there.