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

[teun spaans]

According to the NYT interview, this book will center around popular issues
and B. sees it as a kind of yearbook.

Though I only occasionallly wrote on .de,  i cannot tell if the german
language version has the same abundance for telly, sport and movies related
subjects as some other large wikis. If so, wikipedia may be a good choice
for them. If this succeeds, they may turn to more specilized subjects,
encyclopedias for soccer, golf, other sports, mammals, geography and such
may well come up somewhere in the future.


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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