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By Ral315 and Michael Snow

German Wikipedia to go to print

Zenodot, a sister firm to Directmedia Publishing, the company that previously produced the German Wikipedia on DVD, has announced that it intends to print the German Wikipedia in book form. This printing is planned to reach 100 volumes of roughly 800 pages each, with production beginning in 2007. Two volumes are supposed to be released each month and sold for €14.90 per volume to subscribers or €18.50 to the general public, so it will take about four years to print the complete encyclopedia.

If you can read German, take a look at the official announcement.

Briefly

• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.
• The Basque Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.
• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 registered users.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 125,000 articles.

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