Forgive me if this has been discussed umpteen times... has any consideration been given to (periodically) submitting some kind of print-like version of Wikipedia to Project Gutenberg?

What brought this to mind was running across Jimbo's statement that "I'd like to distribute cheaply-printed paperback copies of Wikipedia to every school in every country in Africa, in English or French as the local circumstances dictate," and thinking how concordant that was with Michael Hart's visions for Project Gutenberg.

BTW, I don't know all the ins and outs but, for the record, although PG has traditionally (in IMHO very, very, VERY wisely) concentrated on "plain vanilla ASCII" format, they do ''not'' limit themselves to that format. So other formats would be negotiable. It would of course be sensible to consult with PG directly on this. I believe they have the Distributed Proofreaders working on the 11th edition of the Britannica, BTW. There might be some issues about reconciling the GFDL with the Project Gutenberg "Fine Print" notice, which they are very, very, VERY picky about. However, PG distributes a few copyrighted items, so there must be a way to work such things out.

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