A campaign on crowdfunding site Indiegogo wants you to donate money to fund a project that will see Wikipedia be printed out page by page and turned into a regular old physical encyclopedia.
"We think that the best way to experience the size of Wikipedia is by transforming it into the physical medium of books," the The Wikipedia Book Project team writes on the campaign's Indiegogo page.
Should the $50,000 (about £30,000) target be met, Wikipedia's 4 million articles will be printed out into 1,000 books of 1,200 pages each. There will be continuous page numbering through the volumes, with the final page being number 1,193,014. The initial plan is to print the books in greyscale, although colour printing is one of the team's strecth goals, should they beat their target.
The books will be displayed in a case longer than 10 metres long at the annual Wikimania conference, due to be held in London's Barbican Centre this August. It's possible that if there is enough interest and enough money is raised, the exhibition may then depart on a tour around the globe. Not that big an investment, given the size of the output...
