Delirium-
On the other hand, we've indicated intent to publish a paper version of the encyclopedia, which would very clearly be a single document. Or are we claiming it wouldnt' be? If each Wikipedia article is a separate document, any paper version we produce would have to have a list of five authors and the "history" section on *every single* article, which would take up a pretty large percentage of the total encyclopedia.
Not at all. A typical article would look like this:
Donald Rumsfeld
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<small font> This is a copy of the Wikipedia article "Donald Rumsfeld", see www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld for the current version and history. It is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (Appendix A). </small font>
Regards,
Erik