Artist prints and sells Wikipedia for $ 80 that

In New York opened the exposition From Aaaaa! to ZZZap! , on which the artist Michael Mandiberg prints Wikipedia. The purpose of the project - not to submit a complete copy of the online encyclopedia, and draw attention to its size and the inability to turn it into a material object fixed form. Mandiberg developed the software that the text of the encyclopedia typesets into the desired shape, and the result of selling on self-publishing platform Lulu.com .





Automatic twitter account project publishes information about the process of creating volumes Wikipedia. A printed copy may be ordered from Lulu.com . Download all volumes will take about two weeks. 106 volumes of prints the artist in the gallery. Each volume will cost $ 80, and the entire collection of 7600 books will cost half a million dollars. In the gallery we placed a banner on which displays the first volume in 1980 Wikipedia.

Uploaded Volume 0083, '1962 NCAA Division IA football season - 1963 Australian Formula Junior Championship » http://t.co/0swSxRvFsa - Print Wikipedia (PrintWikipedia) June 19, 2015
 The last time Wikipedia tried to print in February 2012. at that time, the online encyclopedia articles were 3887569, equivalent to 1638 volumes Britannica. Student unsealed 0, 01% of this amount and the book was half a meter tall hardcover. Five thousand page book contains more than four hundred articles of Wikipedia.



The Russian-language section of Wikipedia, you can print without images in the 821 Volume format the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. It is 1229925 articles medium-sized 541 words.





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