新奇事件簿 維基百科將變書籍

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A publishing company plans to print all of the articles from the Wikipedia website. PediaPress hopes to print the entire contents of Wikipedia in 1,000 books, each containing 1,200 pages. Wikipedia has over 4.3 million articles and 2.6 billion words. Over 20 million volunteers have helped to write it. The project will see the physical version of Wikipedia on nearly 1.2 million pages of print. The page numbers will continue from book to book and the final page will be number 1,193,014. PediaPress needs $50,000 to start the project. It wants people to donate money so it can go ahead with the first copy. The company has already printed number one of the thousand books. It includes the articles from "A" to "A76 motorway".

一家出版公司計劃打印出所有維基百科網站中的文章。德國公司PediaPress希望用1000本書打印出維基百科中的所有內容，每本書1200頁。維基百科的文章數量超過了4300萬，26億文字。志愿者編輯人數超過了2000萬。這項計劃將讓人們看到將近1200萬頁的紙質維基百科。紙張的數量將繼續(xù)增加，最終的數量應該是119萬3014頁。PediaPress需要5萬美金來開始這一項目。該公司希望人們進行捐款，這樣他們的第一本書將立即啟動。該公司已經開始了上千本書的打印工作。其中包括從“A”到A76高速路文章的打印工作。

Many people are questioning why PediaPress wants to print out such a huge website. They say it will be outof date as soon as it starts printing. A spokesperson from PediaPress said the company wants to show the world just how big Wikipedia really is. He said: "We think that the best way to experience the size of Wikipedia is by transforming it into the physical medium of books." He added: "Containing the most volumes andedited by the largest number of contributors, the printed edition will be a work of record-breaking dimensions." The company may take the books on a world tour. After that, it will donate them to a big public library.

許多人都對PediaPress的這一行為產生了疑問。他們認為打印的都是些過時的文章。PediaPress的發(fā)言人稱公司就是想向世界展示維基百科到底有多大。他說：“我們認為只有把危機百科變成實體的書籍，人們才能感受到維基百科的大小。”他還說：“維基百科擁有數量最多的文章，其編輯的志愿者人數也是空前的，該網站的打印版本也將創(chuàng)下世界記錄。”該公司將帶著這些書環(huán)游世界。之后將它捐獻給公共圖書館。