Wikipedia goes to press: 100 volumes in 4 years

The Berlin publishing house Zenodot takes up the challenge and prints Wikipedia. With an editorial team of 25, the pioneering feat is to be accomplished within 4 years. The first of the planned 100 volumes is to be published in October under the name "WP 1.0", each volume will contain around 800 pages of information. From 2007 onwards, 2 volumes will be published every month and the encyclopaedia should be completed in December 2010. According to the publisher's website, a total of around half a million keywords will have to be processed in this time so that the printed Wikipedia can keep up with the quality of a standard printed work. This is because with printed material, the reader is more likely to expect something stable and reliable. To this end, a scientific advisory board of experts will review and validate the content. Nevertheless, the printed version retains one outstanding feature: All articles and images are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. This license allows articles from the encyclopaedia to be edited and redistributed without having to obtain permission from the respective authors. At the end of 2005, Zenodot Verlag began publishing paperbacks on individual topics based on Wikipedia articles in the WikiPress series.