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 [Slashdot: Generated for ChicoLance (318143)] German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book: Editors will distil 50,000 of the most popular entries in the German version of Wikipedia into the 1,000-page volume to go on sale in September. How in the world do they intend to fit 50'000 articles into a 1'000 page book?

 [mailbucket: kvweb4lib] RE: [Web4lib] German Wikipedia to be published in book form?: The really ironic thing is that it's being published by a subsidiary of the= encyclopedia publisher, Bertelsmann. Bertelsmann has spent a lot of time t= rashing Wikipedia in the press and they also got caught a couple of years a= go .

 [BookFizz - The Whole Truth] A Slice of German Wikipedia to Be Captured on Paper: In an odd experiment in reverse publishing, a collection of Wikipedia articles in Germany is being produced in book form by a major publisher.

 [mailbucket: kvweb4lib] [Web4lib] German Wikipedia to be published in book form?: "Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by volunteers, is to be published in Germany as a book for people who prefer turning pages to clicking links, publishing multinational Random House said Tuesday. Editors will distil 50,000 of the most popular entries in the German version of Wikipedia into the 1,000-page volume to go on sale in September.

 [rixonology.org] Bilderberg Group: Jump to: navigation, search. The front cover of the allegedly privately circulated report of the 1980 Bilderberg conference in Bad.

[NETWORK TEKS' COMPUTER NEWS BLOG] German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book: David Gerard writes “Bertelsmann is to publish a single-volume book of the German Wikipedia in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland. It will cost 20 Euros, and 1 Euro from each copy will go to Wikimedia.

[Alvin's Educational Technology Blog] All human knowledge”¦ in your pocket: The data set is from October of 2007.  I’m certain an updated dump will happen periodically.  It does take considerable massaging to get the database into the proper format for the iPhone/Touch.  Also, all the pictures are removed.  Otherwise the data set would be too large for the device.  The dump I have is in English.  There are German and Portuguese dumps available.

 [Toren Atkinson's Absolute Blog] Stasi “was the official secret police of East Germany”: Thanks, Wikipedia and Harper’s Weekly, now I know something that I didn’t know before. And for why?

 [Untitled] Flickr of the Day: The Ampelmann: at pedestrian crossings in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR - East Germany). The red Ampelmännchen extends his arms to signal “stop,” and the green Ampelmännchen confidently strides ahead to signal “go.” - via Wikipedia .

 [Kinsey's Blog] Nation-States in the 21st Century: Nationalism and the desire of nations to rule themselves (self-determination, sovereignty) are still issues in the world today - look at what is happening in Tibet, Kosovo, Palestine. Pick one of these three places, look it up in Wikipedia, and tell me what you think about how what is happening there relates to decisions made in Paris in 1919;

[Social Media Research Blog] Wikipedia and World Languages: It is interesting to find that the European languages (French, German, English Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) have a large number of articles. Japanese is also well represented in terms of the number of articles.

 [degreases56 blog] Immigration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: For example, people in Germany that were considered minorities fled their country in fear that they would be oppressed and arrested. Non-economic push factors include persecution (religious and otherwise), .

 [N4w4c4's Weblog] Week 5 -: Wikipedia and Wikimedia: To start with our topic, it is important to be introduced first to leading Wikipedia practitioners in the English, German, and Japanese: Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko taking us in a journey to the world of  Wikipedia and telling us that they are elected as administrators after many steps of working hard on Wikipedia projects then moving to descripe in details how and why Wikipedia works. It is to create a free encyclopedia available to everyone in their own languageThis is the main goal in the three aspects of Wikipedia, but they provide an opinion that “The English Wikipedia strives to be the biggest one of the world;the German Wikipedia tries to be the best”.  Now how does it work.

 [The International Jugger Blog] Pompfen, boffers or weapons?: At least in Germany, Jugger Pompfen are a type of padded "weapons" all of their own kind, not comparable to LARP weapons; they are specifically designed for high-speed sportive use and have their own tight safety regulations, measures and materials, based on years and years of experimenting and usage.

 [Slashdot] German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book: David Gerard writes "Bertelsmann is to publish a single-volume book of the German Wikipedia in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland. It will cost 20 Euros, and 1 Euro from each copy will go to Wikimedia.

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