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

[Casey Brown]

However, the thing to keep in mind is that this is most certainly not
*all* of the German Wikipedia... it is just a part of it with selected
articles, much like <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:0.5>.

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how many pages would it take to package the English Wikipedia?
>
>
>
>  ----- Original Message ----
>  From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>  To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>  Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:03:12 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bertelsmann publishes "Wikipedia Encyclopedia in One Volume"
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>  On 23/04/2008, 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.
>
>
>  A well-formed English Wikipedia article - and evidently a German
>  Wikipedia one too - should have a lead summary section that
>  constitutes an informative short article in itself, and be written as
>  an inverted pyramid. The first sentence should be informative and
>  standalone, the first paragraph should be informative and standalone,
>  the intro as a unit should be informative and standalone. See
>  [[:en:WP:LEAD]].
>
>  So it's not as good as having the whole thing right there, but it
>  supplies more information than none for someone who wants the
>  ten-second summary. A book of those could be quite useful.
>
>  And it comes with a free website you can go to for expanded versions
>  once you know you want one ;-)
>
>
>  - d.
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