Magnus Manske schrieb:
I would like to remind everyone that the German Wikipedia has just been published on a combined CD-DVD-set, at a price of about 10 Euros.
Where can I order a copy? I don't know German, but some of my colleagues probably do.
And did you do the programming and configuration for that DVD? You are certainly keeping busy; how do you find the time?
Gratefully,
Ed Poor
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:13:30 -0500, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Magnus Manske schrieb:
I would like to remind everyone that the German Wikipedia has just been published on a combined CD-DVD-set, at a price of about 10 Euros.
Where can I order a copy? I don't know German, but some of my colleagues probably do.
It appears that you cannot currently order a copy -- the Autumn 2004 CD edition ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD ) is sold out (though individual bookshops may still have copies, and you can [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download download] and ISO image and/or a DBZ file for the reader that was used), and the Spring 2005 DVD/CD edition ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-Distribution ) is scheduled for release on 31 March, in about a week's time. So you may want to wait until then.
Cheers, Philip
German amazon link for pre-ordering: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3898530205/qid=1112179489/sr=8-1/ref=s...
Poor, Edmund W schrieb:
Magnus Manske schrieb:
I would like to remind everyone that the German Wikipedia has just been published on a combined CD-DVD-set, at a price of about 10 Euros.
Where can I order a copy? I don't know German, but some of my colleagues probably do.
And did you do the programming and configuration for that DVD? You are certainly keeping busy; how do you find the time?
Gratefully,
Ed Poor _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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