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A company plans to print all of the from the Wikipedia website. PediaPress hopes to print the contents of Wikipedia in 1,000 books, each containing 1,200 pages. Wikipedia has over 4.3 articles and 2.6 billion words. Over 20 million have helped to write it. The project will see the version of Wikipedia on nearly 1.2 million pages of . The page numbers will continue from book to book and the page will be number 1,193,014. PediaPress needs $50,000 to start the project. It wants people to donate money so it can go ahead with the first . The company has already printed number of the thousand books. It includes the articles from "A" to "A76 motorway".

Many people are questioning why PediaPress wants to print out a huge website. They say it will be out of as soon as it starts printing. A spokesperson from PediaPress said the company wants to show the just how big Wikipedia is. He said: "We think that the best way to experience the of Wikipedia is by transforming it into the physical medium of books." He added: "Containing the most and edited by the number of contributors, the printed edition will be a of record-breaking dimensions." The company may take the books on a world . After that, it will donate them to a big public .

 


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