Wikipedia Planning a DVD Version

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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Re:Whaaa?

[shutdown -p now]

You forgot about the images.

Re:Another reason the German version fits on CD

[boarder8925]

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Blue Ray

[essreenim]

discs are the way to go here, no?

Re:Another reason the German version fits on CD

[Perdo]

I think you mean

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