How about letting users vote on each article?

Here's one such scheme of the top of my head, which might be used with a little tweaking.

1. Start with zero articles in the print version.

2. Any user can "vote" for an article to be included in the print version.

2a. Put your votes on the talk page, or a "\print" sub-page

3. If anyone disagrees, then we need discussion and a tally.

4. Any page with 80% or higher vote /supporting/ inclusion, goes to the print version.

Ed Poor, "trying to compromise" as www.googlism.com would say