The German section of Wikipedia will be published in book form

Publisher Random House in Germany, conceived the idea to release ' paper ' version of the German segment of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the resource monstersandcritics. com.

As conceived by the publishers, in September of this year should see the light of the 1000- page book, which will include about 50,000 of the most popular among German readers of articles on-line Wikipedia, held by professional editors edit. The project authors have noted that in this way in the book will reflect exactly the information which is interesting people. Thus, in an encyclopedia article about decided to include Carla Bruni ( wife of current President of France), PlayStation 3, the animated character from Disney's Donald Duck and the popular TV series ' House MD '.

According to the authors of the project, the paper will focus on the Wikipedia of the people in Germany who have no regular access to the Internet, as well as those users who have not lost their love for the paper editions.

Recall that an online project of Wikipedia was launched in January 2001. Currently, this encyclopedia contains entries for about 250 languages ​​, with a daily updated database of nearly 2000 articles. The most far-reaching is the English section, numbering more than 2.3 million items. For comparison, the Russian-speaking part of the ' Wikipedia ' contains approximately 250,000 records. German is the second section by the number of articles.

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