"Titoxd@Wikimedia" titoxd.wikimedia@gmail.com wrote in message news:000201c77931$bc57fd70$6501a8c0@TitoLap...
[cross-posted to Foundation-l, Wikipedia-l and WikiEN-l]
Well, after a couple of snags that pushed back the release dates,
Wikipedia 0.5 is finally available for commercial distribution. Thanks to Linterweb, one of the long-term goals of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team in the English Wikipedia has been accomplished.
The release consists of an eclectic selection of 1964 articles, selected
over a period of one year, which span from Art to Zeus. It draws heavily on the English Wikipedia's featured article base, to have it also be a showcase of the best of our work. The CD is available at http://www.wikipediaondvd.com, and sells for approximately ?12 ($15 USD, £8.50) with part of the sales going directly to the Wikimedia Foundation. The CD is also publicly viewable online, and the CD's ISO file is available as well.
The website is still broken if you don't have CSS enabled/available (all the navigation disappears). This should be fixed as a matter of priority.
I also agree with others that it is not clear that the DVD is a 'best of' compilation, rather than an off-line copy of the entire encyclopedia.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)