[WikiEN-l] Want to publish English version of Wikipedia on DVD and need help/advice

Fri Jan 6 12:30:31 UTC 2006

Also don't forget, that to comply with the GFDL, you need to provide a list
of contributors for each article. Or at the very least link to the online
history of the article in question.

Mgm

On 1/6/06, Richard Seltzer <seltzer at samizdat.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for  your response.
>
> Sounds like this could be very difficult. It's hard to imagine "filtering"
> the entire Wikipedia.
> I was hoping that the "articles only" version (without comments) would be
> clean and reliable and free of potential copyright problems.
> And I would not want to include search software. The basic search
> capabilities within Windows could be used. And, of course, a customer
> could
> install any other search program as well.  But, ideally, it should be
> possible to simply navigate with links (as one does with the CIA World
> Factbook).
>
> Do you have an email address for Tim Starling?
>
> I was  hoping that there would be a way to convert regularly updated
> Wikipedia files to a format appropriate for DVD, so it would be possible
> for
> me to offer regular frequent updates.
>
> And is there an email address to officially contact the Foundation?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Richard
>
> Richard Seltzer, seltzer at samizdat.com, 617-469-2269,
> http://www.samizdat.com
> A library for the price of a book http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat
> A summary of our book publishing projects
> http://www.samizdat.com/orientation.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Gray" <shimgray at gmail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>; <seltzer at samizdat.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 6:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Want to publish English version of Wikipedia on
> DVD
> and need help/advice
>
>
> On 05/01/06, Richard Seltzer <seltzer at samizdat.com> wrote:
>
> > I understand (thanks to Lars Aronsson) that Directmedia Publishing
> > in Berlin (www.directmedia.de) put the German Wikipedia on DVD
> > (ISBN 3-86640-001-2).  It sells for $10 on www.amazon.de, and
> > $1 of that goes to the German branch of the Wikimedia Foundation.
>
> Euro not dollars, but yeah. Handily, ten euro is almost exactly the
> $12 you mention below.
>
> You might be interested to read
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia, where Axel Boldt has
> given a short explanation of the various .de publishing projects.
>
> It may be worth noting that the German publication wasn't a straight
> copy of the "live dump", but rather was a slightly-filtered version -
> a largish team had vetted the whole set of articles and then put it on
> DVD. I'm not sure what level of quality you're looking at for this
> DVD, but without a step like this you'd be leaving a lot of dross (and
> a lot of potential copyright problems) in place. They also had some
> home-brewed searching software, rather than just a webbrowser, IIRC.
>
> As to producing static HTML versions, I believe Tim Starling was
> working on tools to do just this, but I can't offhand find anything.
> Searching the archives of this list might be worthwhile.
>
> One final point - you mention donations to Wikimedia. I assume (since
> it makes good business sense) you'd want to publicise this, and thus
> use the Wikipedia/Wikimedia name - this may well be preaching to the
> choir, but please contact the Foundation, to avoid running into
> trademark issues and any associated unpleasantness. (I certainly don't
> know what the status of using the name was in Germany...)
>
> But all that aside, the donations are of course appreciated :-)
>
> Best of luck,
> --
> - Andrew Gray
> andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
>
>
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