新奇事件簿 維基百科將變書(shū)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(jì)劃打印出所有維基百科網(wǎng)站中的文章。德國(guó)公司PediaPress希望用1000本書(shū)打印出維基百科中的所有內(nèi)容，每本書(shū)1200頁(yè)。維基百科的文章數(shù)量超過(guò)了4300萬(wàn)，26億文字。志愿者編輯人數(shù)超過(guò)了2000萬(wàn)。這項(xiàng)計(jì)劃將讓人們看到將近1200萬(wàn)頁(yè)的紙質(zhì)維基百科。紙張的數(shù)量將繼續(xù)增加，最終的數(shù)量應(yīng)該是119萬(wàn)3014頁(yè)。PediaPress需要5萬(wàn)美金來(lái)開(kāi)始這一項(xiàng)目。該公司希望人們進(jìn)行捐款，這樣他們的第一本書(shū)將立即啟動(dòng)。該公司已經(jīng)開(kāi)始了上千本書(shū)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(duì)PediaPress的這一行為產(chǎn)生了疑問(wèn)。他們認(rèn)為打印的都是些過(guò)時(shí)的文章。PediaPress的發(fā)言人稱(chēng)公司就是想向世界展示維基百科到底有多大。他說(shuō)：“我們認(rèn)為只有把危機(jī)百科變成實(shí)體的書(shū)籍，人們才能感受到維基百科的大小。”他還說(shuō)：“維基百科擁有數(shù)量最多的文章，其編輯的志愿者人數(shù)也是空前的，該網(wǎng)站的打印版本也將創(chuàng)下世界記錄。”該公司將帶著這些書(shū)環(huán)游世界。之后將它捐獻(xiàn)給公共圖書(shū)館。