Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
The headline is fun, and I like efforts to print large knowledgesets. More art like this! And I'm a fan of Mandiberg's work with the Art Feminism editathons in NYC. But this is an artistic statement at the collection level, not a serious effort to print individual volumes. When the first page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-20 Thread Richard Farmbrough
I toyed with this idea some years ago when I was working for a short-run large-document printing company. We regularly produced 160,000 page documents (20 copies). With a suitable font Wikipedia's then 1 million articles would have been a cinch. On 17 June 2015 at 20:42, David Gerard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread Risker
On 17 June 2015 at 15:29, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 June 2015 at 20:07, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread David Gerard
On 17 June 2015 at 20:39, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I am surprised at how many people outside of my Wikipedia life have brought this to my attention today. I agree the Buy Now option is probably not the best bet here, but there is a tiny part of me that wouldn't mind getting a volume

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html?_r=1 7,600 volumes, to be available on Lulu. He's printing 106 of them for the exhibition. ​Right, and what's the

[Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread David Gerard
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html?_r=1 7,600 volumes, to be available on Lulu. He's printing 106 of them for the exhibition. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread David Gerard
On 17 June 2015 at 20:07, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html?_r=1 7,600 volumes, to be available on Lulu. He's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread Peter Southwood
Because he can? -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Peel Sent: 17 June 2015 11:23 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go! On 17 Jun 2015, at 20

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: On 17 Jun 2015, at 20:00, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html?_r=1 7,600 volumes, to be available on Lulu.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread Peter Southwood
Why not? Artists do. -P -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: 17 June 2015 09:30 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go! On 17 June 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

2015-06-17 Thread Michael Peel
On 17 Jun 2015, at 20:00, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html?_r=1 7,600 volumes, to be available on Lulu. He's printing 106 of them for the exhibition. Why?