On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Ray Saintonge wrote:
A printed edition (or even a CD edition) has been frequently mentioned on people's wish lists. Until people realistically start talking about how to fund such an undertaking, I have a hard time considering the idea as anything more than a pipe-dream.
Wikipedia's age can be counted in months, dismissing long term goals as pipe dreams this early on is forgetting the spectacular success Wikipedia has already achieved - who would have believed?
As for funding, is it so implausible that some publisher decides to make a printed edition of the best of our articles and sell it for profit? It would be very cheap for him.
-- Daniel