[Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"

[Andre Engels]

One thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet in this thread is that by
taking only the introductions (which is indeed necessary to get
anything close to 50,000 articles into 1000 pages), Bertelsmann in my
feeling is removing most of the usefulness from Wikipedia. There will
be articles where that's okay, but there will plenty of articles which
are excellent in the current form, but become worse-than-trivial if
reduced to one-paragraph stubs.

I guess for Bertelsmann and for Wikipedia such a book would be ok, but
a reader would be more served with one volume out of a series of
books, each of them containing something like 1000 or 2000 complete
Wikipedia articles on some broad subject.


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