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sebmol at gmail Apr 22, 2008, 2:22 AM Views: 2831 Permalink Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume" Hi, 2008 has started as the year of old school encyclopedias permanently relocating to the internet when Brockhaus announced that the current 30 volume edition would be the last one available in print. It may end as the year when trees can yet again wither in the hope that they will end as repositories of human knowledge. In a few hours, a well-known publishing house will announce the production of a single-volume Wikipedia to be available in stores this fall. Prior to this announcement, we wanted to provide you with some background and details on this project. There have been a number of approaches to publish Wikipedia content in print such as the community-developed WikiReaders of a few years ago or the WikiPress series of paperbacks produced by DirectMedia in Berlin. Now a new project has started with the goal to produce a general encyclopedia based on Wikipedia articles. First ideas for a single volume edition were formulated some years ago but it wasn't until this year that a publisher was found who would turn this vision into reality: this fall, the Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut (Wissen Media) will publish the "Wikipedia encyclopedia in one volume" in German language. The first edition will contain 50,000 articles consisting of the introductory paragraphs taken from the corresponding Wikipedia articles. The paragraphs usually provide a compact overview of the topic and its significance so they are well-suited for being published separately. They are comparable in depth and structure to full entries in other single-volume encyclopedias. At a price of €19.95 and its size of about 1,000 pages, it will be a pretty good value in comparison to similar works. The volume will be printed in full color and published as a hardcover with about 100 pictures taken from Wikipedia as well. Topic selection for the first edition was based on page hits collected for German Wikipedia. The data was taken from Domas Miuzas' Wikistats ( http://dammit.lt/wikistats/) and adjusted to reduce the impact of current but short-lived events in favor of lastingly popular topics. The list of authors for each article will be included in the finished volume and the GFDL will be observed as would be expected. There are a number of ways in which we see Wikipedia profiting from this project: 1) The Bertelsmann editors working on the first edition will submit parts of their work--such as improvements to article introductions--to Wikipedia under the GFDL. 2) The accessibility of Wikipedia content will be broadened to a wider range of readers. We may even recruit some new authors as a side effect. 3) For every copy sold, one Euro goes back to Wikimedia. We're looking forward to the response of this forthcoming announcement as well as the public availability of the first edition later this year. Sebastian Moleski Board of Directors Wikimedia Deutschland _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l[at]lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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