A publishing company plans to print all of the articles from the Wikipedia website（维基百科全书网站）. Pedia Press（维基出版社）hopes to print all the information of Wikipedia in 1,000 books, each including 1,200 pages. Wikipedia has over 4.3 million articles and 2.6 billion words. Over 20 million volunteers have helped to write it. There will be 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. Pedia Press 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.
Many people are questioning why Pedia Press wants to print out such a huge website. They say it will be out of date as soon as it starts printing. A spokesman from Pedia Press said the company wants to show the world just how big Wikipedia really is. He said, “We think that the best way to know the size of Wikipedia is by transforming it into the physical medium (物质媒介) of books.” He added, “Including the most books and written by the largest number of volunteers, the printed books will be a work of record-breaking.” The company may take the books on a world tour. After that, it will donate them to a big public library.
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