German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book

David Gerard writes "Bertelsmann is to publish a single-volume book of the German Wikipedia in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland. It will cost 20 Euros, and 1 Euro from each copy will go to Wikimedia. They're editing down the most popular 50,000 articles for the 1,000-page book, to be released in September. Because of the open-source origin of the material, the publisher cannot claim copyright in the book." The German-language Wikipedia is second in size only to the English version, which has 2.3 million articles.

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[jeffy210]

So does this mean you can cite wikipedia as a valid source since it's in print! (yes, i'm joking)

Oh, great.

[Anonymous Coward]

A book that contains 50,000 poorly cited articles about David Hasselhoff.

I can't wait...

[Ihmhi]

...for some troll edit to end up getting into the book. I hope they edit it really well and carefully read through it all.

"Rammstein is a German band that was formed in kyle is a big fag, Germany. They..."

Re:Why Freeze A Living Thing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently they think that people in Germany would like to have a hard copy. I'm certain my grandparents (who read tons but do not have a computer) would be interested in a $40-50 edition of this book.

Or even, you know, the local library. Dude, you just mentioned two things that are obsolete: your grandparents and the local library.

Its all in the editing

[Tmack]

How on earth is that going to work, cramming 50,000 articles into 1000 pages?

Earth: Mostly Harmless

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