Have you ever thought how many pages Wikipedia would have if it were a book? It would certainly be a bottomless book in print, and only a fool would have the time and will to print every page for 11.5 million entries contributed by 7.5 million authors. And since there's a volunteer for every crazy idea in the world, he's up for it too. His name is Michael Mandiberg, a concept artist who has spent the last three years pouring the entire English version of Wikipedia onto paper.
Printed edition of the English version Wikipedia is made of 7600 books. Of these, 91 are devoted only to indexes, and 36 are cited 7.5 million authors of contributions. A New Yorker signed a series of books Michael Mandiberg, which titled the project of putting Wikipedia on paper "Print Wikipedia". As part of this, software was created to facilitate the conversion 11.5 million entries into a format suitable for printing.
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Mandiberg will complete the project with an exhibition “From Aaaaa! this ZZZap!”, where it will be 11 GB large compressed file printed editions in digital format started uploading to the website Lulu.com, which offers "print on demand". This will take about a fortnight and with the completion of the transfer, the curtain will also fall on the said exhibition. The book series will be available for half a million US dollars, to break through the entire content, which is written on more than 2.5 million pages, but it will take you approx two decades. Any interested parties?
