How Much Paper Would It Take to Print Wikipedia?
Submitted by mwilliams on Mon, 2007-09-03 19:18.Trivial but interesting. Apparently they’re actually planning on publishing some of it in print and on CD and DVD…hopefully just the accurate stuff.
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Duh! What's the point? The beauty of Wikipedia is that it's a wiki, editable by everyone and accessible by everyone. Maybe paper lends it more authority and it will probably also bring in more funds to the Wikipedia Foundation which is good.
Yes, I think it's a money thing, but I wonder if anyone will pay for something they can get for nothing. Maybe they will, as the printed form will obviously have to be reliable information, whereas the electronic form is full of misinformation. And I guess it might be handy to have it on CD.
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