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A book with 90,000 authors
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by goutami 40 days ago, published 37 days ago

Among the unlikelier announcements made at Wikipedia’s conference in Alexandria, Egypt, was the bold claim on Friday that the online encyclopedia was about to make history in print publishing: creating the book with the most credited individual authors ever—about 90,000.

The book with so many authors is the product of an unusual alliance ? a single-volume encyclopedia produced by the German publisher Bertelsmann from the 25,000 most popular articles on German Wikipedia. The volume will have very short articles, no more than a few paragraphs at most, and include photos and illustrations.

The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia is set to go on sale in September for 19.95 euros (almost $32), and a sample few pages for the letter K were floating around the conference.

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remixconcepts   # remixconcepts
  Posted 37 days ago. (hide)

I was excited to know how, but when I clicked the orinal link and read the article, it all made sense. Its, I mean. Sure its put into a book, but its still an encyclopedia.

Normal encyclopedias have much more authors then 90,000, so no it isn’t set to record anything.

Plus I see this as one guy’s work and him crediting many people for it. That’s about it.

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koushik1007   # koushik1007
  Posted 37 days ago. (hide)

thank u for the info

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