mapellegrini@comcast.net wrote:
First, let me say that the idea of a printed version of Wikipedia is *GREAT*
I'd like to make a modest logistical proposal for the print edition. I think that each article, in addition to having an associated talk page, should have an associated "Wikipedia 1.0" page - a page containing a print-encyclopedia worthy summary. This is important, because a printed encyclopedia should contain no web links, or internal links, but we don't want to remove them from our articles either. Some longer articles need to be shortened for the print version as well. I think this is the most workable way to do it.
This is an important point I'd been meaning to bring up: if at all possible, it'd be nice if people would avoid doing things like non-obvious piped links, where knowledge of the fact that a particular word is linked is necessary for the sentence to make sense, as these translate very badly to print, and usually would have to be reworded. Plus it's actually easier to read on the internet too if you don't have to mouseover the link to find out what exactly is meant by an oddly-used term. Things like "more details are available [[Another article|elsewhere]]." are the most obvious cases (reword to "see ''[[another article]]'' for more details), but there are plenty of others as well.
-Mark