•Wikipedia Books Now In English
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Last year, Wikipedia announced a partnership with PediaPress in Germany that would allow people to put together their own printed version of a Wikipedia encyclopedia, including articles of their choice. Now, the wiki-to-print version has been activated ...

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this just goes to show how the wikimedia foundation is able to better the lives of people everywhere

Yeah, how much money flowing to Wikipedia does this "partnership" entail? And what's the difference between this and funding WP from advertising? It's just cable vs. broadcast TV: is there an ethical difference?

You can generate PDFs to save to your user space or download with this new feature, but for now it is limited to logged-in users. This could be a handy alternative to Webcite or other similar sites as you can save specific revisions of pages.

Are these PDFs in user space going to be search engine indexed? I wonder what's going to happen when people save articles that later have content deleted or oversighted?