tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311989552024-03-13T02:38:24.096+01:00PediaPress BlogWikipedia, Books on Demand, and the Evolution of PublishingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-42402070482751389002015-06-26T13:19:00.002+02:002015-06-26T13:52:40.878+02:00<h1>
Printed Wikipedia as art</h1>
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Last week, Brooklyn based artist <a href="http://mandiberg.com/">Michael Mandiberg</a> revealed “Print Wikipedia” - a project that visualizes the complete English Wikipedia through 7,600 printable books. Each book will be uploaded to print-on-demand website <a href="http://lulu.com/">lulu.com</a> where it can be ordered for $80. The exhibition “<a href="http://dennygallery.com/exhibitions/">From Aaaaa! To ZZZap!</a>” at the Denny Gallery in New York documents the upload process and displays 106 physical volumes as well as a wallpaper of the first 1980 volumes.<br />
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As you might know, PediaPress started a crowd-funding campaign (<a href="http://wikipediabooks.org/">http://wikipediabooks.org</a>) with a similar goal last year and it’s quite interesting to compare “Print Wikipedia’s” approach to our own: <br />
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<li>We <a href="http://blog.pediapress.com/2014/02/the-impact-of-printed-wikipedia-on-trees.html">estimated</a> that printing a complete edition of Wikipedia would <em>not</em> have a big impact on the environment, but Mandiberg’s idea to print a wallpaper of a bookshelf instead of thousands of volumes certainly silences all critics.</li>
<li>„Print Wikipedia“ uses mainly the text information from Wikipedia (at least as far as I could see). It does not contain images and tables. This makes book generation easier but leaves out a significant (and important) part of the content.</li>
<li>Offering the volumes via print-on-demand allows everybody to experience the size of Wikipedia first-handed and adds credibility to the project.</li>
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At PediaPress we approached the project differently: with German “Gründlichkeit” (thoroughness) we set out to create a tangible encyclopædia that could be experienced in its entirety by as many people as possible. Of course this lead to much more work (and cost) and after our Indiegogo campaign failed, the project went into deep sleep. My only (small) critique on Mandiberg's effort is that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images" target="_blank">a picture of a bookshelf is not a real bookshelf</a>. To know that there are 7,600 volumes (or 1,200 volumes in our case) is different from taking a volume into your hands, feeling its weight, and flipping through its pages.<br />
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Unless somebody with very deep pockets comes around and spends $500,000 the project will remain somehow fractioned. Aside from this Michael Mandiberg elegantly created a perfect visualization of the printed Wikipedia. Chapeau, Mr. Mandiberg.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15528002848444328612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-60666232114899034212014-02-13T19:15:00.000+01:002014-02-18T17:43:13.234+01:00The Impact of a printed Wikipedia on TreesWhen talking about our Wikipedia book project, some people argue that printing on paper is "a waste of trees" and harmful to the environment. We do not take those accusations lightly. The environmental impact of paper is significant and must not be ignored. In this blog post, we want to explore the impact of our project and try to analyze the consequences.<br />
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How much paper do we need?</h3>
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Wikipedia itself estimates that printing the complete English Wikipedia will take roughly 2,000 <strike>pages</strike> volumes. After a few experiments, we came to the conclusion that we could reduce this number significantly while still creating a legible and pleasing "encyclopædic" layout. </div>
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We estimated that we could fit the whole English Wikipedia in about 1,000 A4 sized books with 1,200 pages each. As we print on the front- an backside of a page, this amounts to 600,000 sheets of A4 paper. Common 80g paper weighs 5g per sheet, so in total the weight of the paper amounts to a whopping 3 metric tons.<br />
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How many trees will be used for printing Wikipedia?</h3>
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Now, let's try to estimate the number of trees used for printing Wikipedia with some back-of-the envelope calculations:</div>
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For the production of 1 ton of paper 2 tons of wood are necessary which again equals approximately 4 cubic meters. Now, let's assume that we have a pine tree that is about 45 meters high and has a diameter of 0.5 meters. This amounts to a volume of approximately 9 cubic meters of wood. Therefore, paper used in this project requires about 12 cubic meters of raw wood. So we are talking about roughly 1.3 trees that need to be harvested to print Wikipedia.</div>
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In reality of course, paper is not made from valuable tree logs (which are used for furniture or floors) but from inexpensive (and otherwise mostly useless) wood chips and saw dust.<br />
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What we will do to neutralize the effect of our paper consumption</h3>
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In our project (and in all PediaPress books) we only print on paper from FSC certified resources. The <a href="http://www.fsc.org/">FSC</a> sets minimum standards for responsible and sustainable forestry. </div>
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In Europe, sustainable forestry can be traced back to the 15th century. In the last 100 years, the area covered with forests in Europe tripled. From 1990 to 2010 the biomass of forests has <a href="http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/forest-growth-1/assessment">increased by 30%</a> according to the European Environment Agency. </div>
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Responsible Forestry plays an important role in cutting CO<sub>2</sub> emissions by cultivating, harvesting and especially burning wood instead of fossile energy sources. </div>
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As only trees from certified forestry will be used for this project we can safely assume that every tree we consume for printing Wikipedia will be replanted. </div>
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Nevertheless, we will make sure that at least ten new trees will be planted when our campaign is successful - just in case.</div>
Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15528002848444328612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-52768911085393392252014-02-10T21:33:00.000+01:002014-02-10T21:33:16.114+01:00Visualizing The Work of 20 Million Volunteers<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid719">
<span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">Today</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> we launched </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">a</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> crowdfunding campaign with the goal t</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">o</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> print and exhibit the complete </span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">E</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">nglish Wikipedi</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">a in 1,000+ books. Check below video to get the idea:</span><br />
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<span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">A few</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> week</span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">s</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> after we launched our </span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">book export </span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">service in the German Wikipedia</span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">,</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> a user </span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">asked us</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> t</span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">o</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> drop our</span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg"> </span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">arbitr</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">a</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">ry 500 articles limit. </span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">In our</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> </span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">conversation with the user</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">, we learned that he planned to print the complete Wikipedia. </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">After doing some</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">back of the envelope </span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">calculations and</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z"> exchanging</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> emails, we mutally agreed to drop his plan. But the idea was born and </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">stuck with us</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">.</span></div>
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<span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">The Wikipedia community </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">uses </span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">books as a metaphor to compare the size of Wikipedia </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">with</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> its </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">printed </span><span class="author-a-oucxz84z1z74z4z78zp7sz84zieg">predecessors</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> </span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">like </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">the Encyclopædia </span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">Britannica. There is</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z"> even</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes"><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">dedicated</span></a><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes"> page</a> </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">which continously updates</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">a visualization based on</span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6"> </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">the </span><span class="author-a-z80zz82zz72zlljlz68zow1z69zz81zos6">current number of articles</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">. </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">Currently</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">,</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> the page </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">estimates</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">that a printed Wikipedia will fill </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">almost 2,000 </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">Britannica-sized volumes</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">. </span></div>
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<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x7tp-OOtM6k/UvkuCEv86fI/AAAAAAAAACQ/4vavK-tD-dE/s1600/WMWIKLEXBK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x7tp-OOtM6k/UvkuCEv86fI/AAAAAAAAACQ/4vavK-tD-dE/s1600/WMWIKLEXBK.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">In the past t</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">here have been </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">a few </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">a</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">ttempts</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">to create a printed edition of</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> Wikipedia. In 2008</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">,</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">G</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">erman p</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">u</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">blish</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">ing house</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> Bertelsmann released a</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">n</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> </span><a href="http://readwrite.com/2008/09/17/printed_wikipedia_now_available#awesm=~ovsXc2VhDKce3b" target="_blank"><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">abridged</span></a><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"><a href="http://readwrite.com/2008/09/17/printed_wikipedia_now_available#awesm=~ovsXc2VhDKce3b" target="_blank"> version</a> of the </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">G</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">erman Wikipedia, featuring about 20,000 </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">abbreviated</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> articles on 992 pages.</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z"> </span><br />
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<span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">Shortly afterwards, s</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">tudent Rob Mat</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">t</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">hews created a <a href="http://www.brandnew.uk.com/wikipedia-as-a-printed-book/" target="_blank">book</a> containing </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">more than </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">400 feature</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">d</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> articles from Wikipedia on 5,000 pages. But </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">even </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">his</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z"> effort covered</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> only </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">1 out of 10,000 </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">articles</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z"> (0,01%)</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">. </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"></span><br />
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<span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">In 2010, British artist James Bridle created a 12 volume (7,000 pages) <a href="http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/" target="_blank">set of books</a> featuring all 12,000 changes of the article "The Iraq War" between 2004 and 2009 to illustrate the discursive ways of our culture.</span><br />
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<span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">And of course there is </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">PediaPress, </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">our</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z"> own humble attempt to create a </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">service </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">that allows everybody to print a book from an</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> individual selection of articles.</span></div>
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years, but we didn't know how to tackle the cost. Crowdfunding changed
the situation and fits the Wikipedian community approach</span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z"> very well</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">. </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">So,
when somebody brought this topic up in one of our team meetings a
couple of weeks ago, we said "why not" and gave it a go. Maybe we can
find other like-minded souls (like you?) who love books or are just as
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<span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">Check out our </span><a href="http://igg.me/at/wikipediabooks/x/5229868" target="_blank"><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">Indiegogo </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">campaign</span></a><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">, tell your friends about it</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe"> </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">on the interwebs </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">and become a sponsor of this unique endeavour</span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">. If you have tips or questions, don't hesitate to contact us. </span><span class="author-a-mz75zez72zayz72zx6z75zz72zz74zoz83zkz79z">We are looking forward to meet you in front of a large book case </span><span class="author-a-weaz87zppz78zz73z6z73ziz72zbz73zfe">at <a href="http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Wikimania London</a> in August 2014.</span></div>
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We have neither decided on the destinations during a travelling
exhibition of the books nor where they're finally put to rest. Let us know if you think that your local museum or library is a good fit.</span></div>
Heikohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09199037582427123265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-61251474775923211852013-01-16T19:44:00.000+01:002013-01-16T19:46:32.003+01:00Voyage, Voyage ...Good news for all travel fans: Our PediaPress service is now also available with Wikivoyage, the free online travel guide that -just like Wikipedia- is edited collaboratively.<br />
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After a tumultuous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage#History">history</a>, Wikivoyage went live today as the twelfth official Wikimedia Foundation project.<br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.18831856781616807"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While printed books surely offer unparalleled haptics, smell and decoration, there are some situations where e-books are just are good enough. That’s why our team developed a feature that was missing so far from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wikipedia’s Book Creator</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Standard compliant (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EPUB</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) e-book export. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Owners of a e-book readers will probably appreciate the difference this makes compared to the PDF export: With EPUB you are able to reflow and resize the content of your e-book to your own liking.</span></b><br />
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Next to some traditional media like </span><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/18/tech/mobile/wikipedia-e-book/index.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CNN</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/turn-wikipedia-articles-e-books-new-feature-1B5964130" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NBCNEWS</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the news were broadly re-published and commented by various tech magazines like </span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/21/3369354/wikipedia-book-creator-wikimedia" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Verge</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5944128" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life Hacker</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5944107/create-custom-ebook-encyclopaedias-from-wikipedia" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gizmodo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Wired sticked to its </span><a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2011/06/ebooks-not-there-yet/2/" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 reasons why e-books aren’t there yet</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and</span><a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/why-wired-is-wrong-about-ebooks-digital-reading-is-ready-for-primetime" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cluelessly</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ignored the news, while some </span><a href="http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/09/18/wikimedia-enables-ebook-export-feature-wikipedia-offline-reading-pleasures/" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mobile</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2012/09/21/new-epub-ebook-export-feature-added-to-wikipedia-articles/?utm_source=feedburner" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e-book</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> centered mags, welcomed the addition </span><a href="http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/09/18/wikipedia-adds-epub-to-its-ebook-download-options-no-more-pdf-yay/#.UGWV9PmH7Zl" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">enthusiastically</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Even here in Germany the news were spread by some of the most popular IT news sites like </span><a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikipedia-Buecher-jetzt-auch-im-Epub-Format-1710176.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heise</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://www.golem.de/news/pediapress-e-book-export-fuer-die-wikipedia-1209-94722.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Golem</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (</span><a href="http://www.golem.de/news/wikipedia-englische-onlineenzyklopaedie-bekommt-e-book-export-1209-94627.html" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">even twice</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). 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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The software was developed by </span><a href="http://brainbot.com/home_en" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brainbot technologies</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the company behind the PediaPress service. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brainbot technologies builds software and services for the transforming publishing industry. Our fields of expertise are topics like e-books, multi-channel publishing, print-on-demand, integration of community content as well as content remixing, bundling and un-bundling. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, if you would like to benefit from more than five years of experience in creating and operating a worldwide on-demand printing and e-book service for a top ten website like Wikipedia, or if you would just like to invite us for a drink (e.g. at the upcoming <a href="http://www.buchmesse.de/">Frankfurt Book Fair</a>): </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feel free to </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">contact us</span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15528002848444328612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-84795162373678557402011-10-20T15:00:00.000+02:002011-10-20T17:27:45.708+02:00Custom Prefaces for Your BooksStarting today you can add a custom preface to your book. All you have to do is to navigate to our shiny new tab (aptly named "preface") after uploading your collection to PediaPress. There you can get your creative juices flowing and start writing.<br />
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The preface will appear at the beginning of your book. There is no limit on the amount of content that you can put into the preface. The price for your book will be adjusted by the estimated number of pages that you entered (by 4 cents per page).<br />
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You can check out the appearance of your preface in the book preview which will be automatically updated as soon as you edit the title or content field. You are free to use <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting">basic MediaWiki Markup</a> to enhance the layout.<br />
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We consider the preface to be a part of the content of your book and use Arabic numerals (1,2,3,…) to count the pages. Only the table of contents will be numbered with Roman numerals (I, II, III, …). The chapter or article following the preface will always begin on a right (recto) page to distinguish it clearly from the previous section. This means that your book will always grow by at least two pages when you create a preface.<br />
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To remove the preface you have to clear both the title and the content field. You could use this for creating personalized gifts: Just create a headline and leave the content blank. This will basically create two (almost) blank pages. You can use these pages to insert a personal note or a dedication in your own handwriting.<br />
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Custom prefaces have been a "most wanted" feature both in surveys and helpdesk requests and we are glad that we are finally able to provide this new feature. How do you like it?Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15528002848444328612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-45766367784531195192011-08-04T15:46:00.006+02:002011-08-04T19:59:07.878+02:00Collection Extension in Hebrew Wikipedia<div>Greetings from PediaPress to all Wikipedians who are currently attending <a href="http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/">Wikimania in Haifa</a>.</div><div>
</div><div>Just-in-time for the beginning of the conference we are very happy to announce that the collection extension is now available in the <a href="http://he.wikipedia.org/">Hebrew Wikipedia</a>. This means that if you are fluent in the language of Canaan, you can now start collecting articles.</div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 135px; height: 155px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-99WK0M-TyQs/TjrYQduDI_I/AAAAAAAABH4/BisHzcBHrbQ/s400/Wiki.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637055660974875634" /><div>Right-to-left (RTL) writing really gave us some headaches and so far, only the PDF export works. A big thank you goes to all the local volunteers who reported bugs and helped us goyim understand what was going wrong. </div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15528002848444328612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-38138307906924142342011-07-06T23:26:00.016+02:002011-07-07T15:53:55.346+02:00New page layout for the Book Setup page<p>This week we updated pediapress.com with a revised layout for the book setup page.</p>
<p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCd22-C_2d8/ThWsPntTe6I/AAAAAAAABDM/Holt81nXEew/s1600/01%2BTabbed%2BView.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCd22-C_2d8/ThWsPntTe6I/AAAAAAAABDM/Holt81nXEew/s400/01%2BTabbed%2BView.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626592693826321314" /></a></p>
<p>We decided to change the page because we felt that the previous design was suffering from a messy layout and lack of structure - especially since we introduced the product options for hardcover and color last fall.</p>
The new design introduces tabs as a navigational aide:
<ul><li>Both tabs contain a preview for the cover image.</li><li>The first tab contains only the editor, title and subtitle.</li><li>The second tab sports a fancy color theme selector. Moreover, you can access all cover images without horizontal scrolling.</li></ul>
<p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lMHQTgotTl8/ThWsP287hGI/AAAAAAAABDU/Q9-Lm0f7dTI/s1600/02%2BHardcover%2BOption%2Bselected.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lMHQTgotTl8/ThWsP287hGI/AAAAAAAABDU/Q9-Lm0f7dTI/s400/02%2BHardcover%2BOption%2Bselected.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626592697918391394" /></a></p>
<p>We worked on pretty much all elements of the page, but let me pick a few highlights:</p>
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<li>We used CSS3 effects for some progressive enhancements - the design for the tabs and the submit button are pure CSS.</li>
<li>The previous color theme showed only one color - the background. The new one is designed like a small wireframe and gives you an impression of the color mix for the cover. </li>
<li>The image selector shows the background of the currently selected color theme. That way you can identify even before clicking on an image, if it’s colors match the current theme.</li>
<li>We reduced the text quite a bit to make the interactions clearer and worked on the flow of the page. For an example, take a look at the price and product options:</li>
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<p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-49p1YVSL8Tc/ThWsQAncB6I/AAAAAAAABDc/2cemkZtt-Rw/s1600/side-by-side_price.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-49p1YVSL8Tc/ThWsQAncB6I/AAAAAAAABDc/2cemkZtt-Rw/s400/side-by-side_price.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626592700512602018" /></a></p>
<p>In the old version, the price information came first with a very prominent “Add-to-Cart” button at the top. In the new version, we turned things upside down and put the price and the button at the bottom. That way, your eye can just follow a familiar path along the calculation and you don’t have to look up and down to see the effect of your clicks.</p>
<p>The setup page has always been a challenge for us. We hope these layout changes make this page more fun and easier to use. Now upload a book, check out the new setup page yourself and tell us what you think. We would love to hear your feedback about the new design.</p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15528002848444328612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-51341748781116601762011-05-03T11:31:00.018+02:002011-05-04T17:05:29.359+02:00Personnel changes at PediaPress<div><img style="margin:0 10px 0px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 96px; height: 75px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dl2q-0EEuV4/Tb_SG3bi_fI/AAAAAAAABBc/Y6SLYKUTG8k/s400/Eva.jpg" border="0" alt="Eva-Maria Biedenbach" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602427476872723954" /><img style="width: 96px; height: 75px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-64t4Apsmff0/TcFpz3U9MNI/AAAAAAAABB8/FLlabFwlbN4/s400/jojo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602875751171698898" /></div><div>Eva-Maria Biedenbach and Johannes Beigel have left PediaPress in order to pursue new challenges. We would like to thank both of them for their hard work and wish them all the best for their future and much success.</div><div>
</div><div><br /><img style="width: 96px; height: 75px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HTuxXik28Bs/TcFqBwxEMWI/AAAAAAAABCE/Fcj40zXeH7U/s400/christoph.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602875989928718690" /></div><div>We are pleased to welcome Christoph Kepper as a new team member. Chris accompanied our company for many years as chairman of the supervisory board of our parent company, brainbot technologies. He will predominantly focus on marketing and sales.</div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15528002848444328612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-21385435958624412102011-02-04T16:07:00.018+01:002011-02-07T14:26:39.207+01:00Wikipedia Books On Medicine: A Doctor's Approach<p>Two days ago, the <a href="http://www.jmir.org/">Journal of Medical Internet Research</a> published a paper reviewing studies quality of Medicine articles on Wikipedia, and urging the medical community to contribute to the online encyclopedia (see <a href="http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e14/">Wikipedia: A Key Tool for Global Public Health Promotion</a>). We have been noticing for some time that there is a high number of people actually producing books with Wikipedia content on the subject of medicine. So we dug a little further and asked some of those editors to give us their insight as to why and how they use the book tool in Wikipedia to produce offline material, focusing on medicine, but also on many other topics.</p>
<p>Our first respondent is <a href="http://anesthesiology.umc.edu/faculty_bios/Bio_Current.html">John D. Current</a>, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology and Director, SRNA Clinical Program, who tells about his experience with PediaPress and the book tool. He made a book on the topic of "<i>Physics Related to Anesthesia</i>" which he distributed as reading material to his students for a lecture he was giving. Here are his answers to our interview.</p><p><b>PediaPress: How did You get to know PediaPress and its service?</b></p>
<p><b>John Current:</b> I have been a contributor to Wikipedia, which necessitated frequent visits to their website. They prominently displayed the availability of the PediaPress services. When I had the need to print some course materials for my lectures I gave PediaPress a try.</p>
<p><b>PP: What was the first book You created?</b></p><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TUwcR_re4wI/AAAAAAAAAGY/4Nq1cIHtls8/s320/Physics%2BRelated%2Bto%2BAnasthesia.png" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569857934627627778" /><p><b>JC:</b> My first book on PediaPress was "Physics Related to Anesthesia." I was giving a lecture on this subject to a group of anesthesiology residents and medical students. In preparation, I sought material to help improve their background in physics and found that many of the Wikipedia articles were quite relevant, so I compiled this material in book form for their benefit.</p>
<p><b>PP: You have ordered, among others, your book "Physics Related to Anesthesia" 29 times and created a great series on "Pharmacology for Anesthetists". Do you feel that the quality of Wikipedia articles is good in that topic?</b></p>
<p><b>JC:</b> I felt the quality of the physics articles were quite excellent. I have received many favorable comments about that material. I consider the PDF's to be quite beautiful.</p><p><b>PP: Are there any other topics in Wikipedia you would consider making books about?</b></p>
<p><b>JC:</b> Yes, I have several interests that may result in books. I consider the articles in Wikipedia on combat aircraft to be particularly outstanding. I have edited a book on the topic "<a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/d6461426ce92da96be9cd4553793ed/">American Warplanes of World War II</a>" , which turned out very well and I bought to give as Christmas gifts to my friends with similar interests. </p>
<p><b>PP: Are the books You created for you? For others? How do you (plan to) use the books (in what context?)</b></p>
<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TUwf-VmUjrI/AAAAAAAAAGo/utpjDQ78AjY/s200/current.png" style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 141px; height: 200px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569861994960686770" /><p><b>JC:</b> Most of the books I'm compiling are meant as supplements to my lectures on anesthesiology given to anesthesiology residents, medical students and nurses in training. My philosophy is that college and medical textbooks are too expensive and I desire to make materials available to the students as cheaply as possible. I see collaborative efforts like Wikipedia to be a potential route to more inexpensive course materials.</p>
<p><b>PP: How do other people react to the books you create</b><b>?</b></p>
<p><b>JC:</b> I have received nothing but favorable comments from my students and colleagues. Most remark about the quality of the printing and the overall appearance of the books.</p>
<p><b>PP: Is there anything that you wish PediaPress would offer on top of the actual service proposed?</b></p><p><b>JC:</b> I would like to be able to place additional material into these books to supplement the materials I am able to glean from Wikipedia. I would also like to be able to revise my books in the PediaPress catalog to at least correct typographical and other errors. Thanks for providing a valuable service.</p>
<p>We also asked <a href="http://twitter.com/Runkel2000">Dr. Reinhard G. Runkel</a>, <a href="http://www.kreiskrankenhaus-alsfeld.de/typo3/index.php?id=606">Chief medical Anesthesiologist</a> in Germany as well as a writer and editor of medical textbooks, to answer our interview [1]. He has made books about Medicine, but also other topics, and would have many ideas to create books in a format that would fit in a lab's coat pocket. An idea to pursue?</p>
<p><b>PediaPress: How did You get to know PediaPress and its service?</b></p>
<p><b>Dr Reinhard Runkel:</b> I found out through the Wikipedia Main Page.</p>
<p><b>PP: Which was the first book you created? </b></p><p><b>RR:</b> <i>Hygiene im Krankenhaus - ein Kompendium</i> (<i>Hygiene in the hospital - A Compendium</i>)</p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TUwcxaG_cuI/AAAAAAAAAGg/fdcTkW-eceg/s320/Immunology.png" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569858474298274530" /><p><b>PP: You have ordered more than 40 Books through the PediaPress service. Among them books about Football, Politics and Economics, and Medicine. Do you feel that the quality of Wikipedia articles is good in those topics?</b></p><p>
</p><p><b>RR:</b> Absolutely – where I doubt competence, I sort out. Otherwise, I add facts with the help of scientific citations.</p><p>
</p><p><b>PP: Are there any other topics in Wikipedia you would consider making books about?</b></p>
<p><b>RR:</b> A whole lot - there is not limit put on creativity. I get suggestions from colleagues and friends.</p>
<p><b>PP: Are the books You created for You? For others? How do you (plan to) use the books (in what context?) </b></p>
<p><b>RR:</b> 1) as reference books for myself and my colleagues (Medicine) </p><p>2) as surprise/present for friends, whose interests I know or could find out about.</p>
<p><b>PP: How do other people react to the books you create?</b></p>
<p><b>RR:</b> <i>"Where do you find the time?"</i> is the question I hear most often. The effort is actually not so much of an effort. On the contrary, I have a lot of fun putting the books together and I learn a whole lot while doing so, especially with the English texts.</p>
<p><b>PP: Is there anything that you wish PediaPress would offer on top of the actual service proposed? </b></p>
<p><b>RR:</b> The layout is great, hard covers and color content are an option that turned out very well. I would find it great to have a book format that fits in a lab coat's pocket (125x97mm), with smaller font size. I'd come up with many ideas for this format.</p>
<p>A big thank you to both Dr Current and Dr Runkel, it is always extremely interesting to get insight about how Wikipedia material can be used and distributed offline. If you have a Wikipedia book experience you would like to share, don't hesitate to contact us to tell it!</p>
<p><i>[1] note: the interview was conducted in German and translated into English</i></p>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-22426344524695089332011-01-26T18:29:00.015+01:002011-01-27T15:09:04.913+01:00Jimmy Wales gives away Wikipedia books<p>It has been the greatest job for PediaPress so far: printing 350 Wikipedia books for the <a href="http://www.gdi.ch/en/node/1089">Gottlieb-Duttweiler-Award 2011</a>. Jimmy Wales, this year's laureate, decided to give away Wikipedia books to the invited guests. The book contains a selection of Wikipedia articles around the topic of Duttweiler and Wikipedia and a personal foreword by Wales himself.</p>
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</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US">The <a href="http://www.gdi.ch/en/node/1081">Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute</a> honors Jimmy Wales for “his merits of democratizing the access to knowledge”. With Wikipedia, world's largest Online-Encyclopaedia, the corner stone for free knowledge is set – but only in countries who have internet access. By giving away Wikipedia books, Wales indicates that the free knowledge should also be promoted in countries with little or no internet access.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US">PediaPress happily agreed to produce 350 hardcover books entitled “Gottlieb Duttweiler Award 2011”. The books have been shipped to Rüschlikon, Switzerland and will be handed out during the ceremony.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iGpNxvQ1rnY/TUF79cAjK4I/AAAAAAAAAA8/gN8MwG_uKs8/s1600/GD_Preis_impressions-5942.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iGpNxvQ1rnY/TUF79cAjK4I/AAAAAAAAAA8/gN8MwG_uKs8/s320/GD_Preis_impressions-5942.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566866909827378050" border="0" /></a>
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<p>We looked back at the year 2010 and tried to see what happened at PediaPress. Wow. New people joined the team, the rendering software kept getting better, we implemented hard covers and color content, and of course, the number of Wikipedia articles to choose from to make custom books kept increasing, making PediaPress wiki books ever more interesting. And then we decided to look at the world around us (yes, there is a world beside work!) and wondered what had made this last year, and even this last decade, special.</p>
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<p>We all had different ideas and memories of the 10 years past. It's actually quite an interesting exercise to look back and see what people remember, or don't for that matter. So we made a book. Our book is quite an exhaustive one, albeit a simple one - <a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/832c802954503c5dd41a0c0e269862/">we just put together all the "month articles" from Wikipedia</a> in a book. Well two actually, since so much happened that it only fits in two volumes.</p>
<p>So we've done ours, but we'd like to know what you remember of the last year, and of the last decade. We thought we'd throw a little memory contest out there, to see what you will come up with.</p>
<p><b>Rules are very simple:</b></p>
<p>Make your own book about what you think was important in 2010, or in the last decade (2000-2010). Any focus is allowed. It can be "The Craziest Moments of The Last Decade", "The Most Influential People At The Turn Of The Century" or "The Year 2010 Coolest Cars". Whatever was important to you, what you found interesting, what you'd like to keep in your library to show your kids, grand-kids or just your friends in ten years time to say "this is what I remember of those years".</p>
<p>Only one condition: The book can't exceed 800 pages (yes, I know, we've cheated our own rules with our book, but then, we make the rules, so there!) - that is one volume. Make a cool cover, and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/PediaPress?v=wall">link it from our Facebook page</a> or in the comments of this blog post [1]. We're curious to see what you will come up with. You have time until the end of the month to show off your best book. We'll choose the coolest books and the coolest get a copy for free.</p>
<p>So go for it, start the <a href="http://pediapress.com/wikipediabookcreator">book creator</a> and show us what we've missed in this crazy last decade and last year. Ready? Go!</p>
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</div><div>Oh, I almost forgot! HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2011 bring you lots of pages full of thoughts, facts and free knowledge, as well as health, fun and laughter. :)</div>
<p>[1] Edit made following the comment of Anonymous :)Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-91078601992072171742010-11-29T10:41:00.008+01:002010-11-29T10:49:27.770+01:00Order Books Before 6th of December to Make Sure They Get to You in Time!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TPN2an8uTWI/AAAAAAAAAFw/7MU9OvjgRjY/s1600/IMG_5464.jpg"></a>
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<p>You know how it is, Holiday Season is one of those times where everything tends to be hectic and things have got to go fast. Well, no exception for ordering great customized books for your loved ones in time to put them under the Christmas tree.</p>
<p>Considering books have got to be printed and then sent to wherever you are in the world, if you want to have your books ready for Christmas and want to be able to tuck them in your loved ones' Christmas Sock, you need to get busy.</p>
<p>Our Customer survey showed that most people take around 10 to 30 minutes to make a great book. However, well, all this knowledge takes a little more time to be printed and shipped. So this week, the first 15 minutes you have available should be dedicated to make your customized Wikipedia books. Any order made <b>before December 6th </b>will get to you in time, any order after that date, we cannot guarantee that it will make it in time to the Christmas Tree. The good news is, our German customers have a little more time, as for them the<b> deadline for any book shipped within Germany is the 15th of December</b>.</p>
<p>Get going, <a href="http://pediapress.com/wikipediabookcreator">start the book creator</a> and make your book. If you're short of ideas, look up the posts we filed under our <a href="http://blog.pediapress.com/search/label/ideas">ideas</a> tag, this should give you plenty of material to work with. In these times of end-of-the-year Season though, you might want to add a Yearbook to your collection (retracing all great events of the past year) or who knows, a book about Christmas and everything related to it!</p>
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</span></div><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>And of course, don't forget all the beautiful-books goodness we've been introducing in the past few weeks, hard covers and color content for even more fantastic books.</div></p>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-40460075598602928932010-11-22T11:45:00.009+01:002010-11-22T12:16:13.650+01:00PediaPress Books for the Zedler Medaille<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TOpPd9AkCaI/AAAAAAAAAFc/U1Mmzx482_k/s1600/Zedler-Medaille_2010_-_%25C3%259Cbergabe_an_Gewinner_%25284776%2529.jpg"></a>
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TOpO0KK7ZVI/AAAAAAAAAFU/vfHBvSX57DE/s1600/zedler_buecher.png"></a><p>The Zedler Medaille, a prize awarded for excellent articles by Wikimedia Deutschland, was awarded last Friday in Frankfurt. </p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TOpPd9AkCaI/AAAAAAAAAFc/U1Mmzx482_k/s320/Zedler-Medaille_2010_-_%25C3%259Cbergabe_an_Gewinner_%25284776%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542329667444541858" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px; " /></span><p>The winners were Jürgen Erbs, for the article "<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besselsche_Elemente">Besselsche Elemente</a>" (Besselian Elements) in the category Natural Sciences and Tobias Lutzi for the article "<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagobert_Duck">Dagobert Duck</a>" (Scrooge McDuck) in the category Humanities. It was the 4th Edition of the Zedler Medaille, a Prize developped in 2007 by Wikimedia Deutschland, the Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaft and the Publishing House Spektrum der Wissenschaft in 2007 to reward authors writing Wikipedia articles in Natural Sciences and Humanities. This year also introduced a new prize for excellent pictures, which unfortunately did not find the resonance it should have. Only a third price was awarded, for an image illustrating <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking">Focus Stacking</a>.</p> <p> For this special occasion, PediaPress offered customized books to the winners in the article category, books in which we collected all articles having won the Zedler Medaille in the last four years. It is kind of exhilarating, and rather fun, to be able to give books with their names on it to people who've just won a prize, which actually feature their articles. That's how customizable PediaPress books are. The Zedler Medaille Book (we also made a "general" edition) is<a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/95120bd432cfc0efe07b2c697b2879/"> available to purchase for anyone interested</a> (in German, of course).</p><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TOpO0KK7ZVI/AAAAAAAAAFU/vfHBvSX57DE/s1600/zedler_buecher.png"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TOpO0KK7ZVI/AAAAAAAAAFU/vfHBvSX57DE/s400/zedler_buecher.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542328949423170898" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px; " /></a>
</p><p>You have a special event you'd like to make even more special by giving books away? Contact us, we can help!</p><p>
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</p><p>Image source: © Raimond Spekking - "<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zedler-Medaille_2010_-_%C3%9Cbergabe_an_Gewinner_%284776%29.jpg">Übergabe an Gewinner</a>" - Wikimedia Commons - <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en">CC-BY-SA-3.0</a></p>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-77672839156765136772010-11-17T15:15:00.002+01:002010-11-17T15:53:45.319+01:00Jingle Books, Jingle Books, Jingle All The Way!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TOPlFg4DzII/AAAAAAAAAFM/4Vdq2yVNrw8/s1600/harcover.jpg"></a>
<div><p>There's something about time that I quite don't get, Christmas seems to be there earlier each year. And now it's upon us again. Well, Holiday Season, since not everyone will celebrate Christmas the same way, or even at all. Anyway, that time is around the corner and while I'm sure you're already thinking "It's too early to think about it yet", I am also sure that there is a little voice at the back of your head which goes "Oh noes, I am going to have to think about presents again!". I don't know about you, but I always have a hard time finding good presents in time for the people I love. And especially for the people I love. They seem to have it all, and frankly, yet another pair of gloves or again the best-seller novel of the year, which they might not even like, is not an option. </p></div>
<div><p>So... how about a present that nobody else has thought about? A present that's different? A present that's tailored to the person you love? I am thinking, of course, one of our customized Wikipedia books!</p></div><div>
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</div><div><p>Let's see, what kind of book would please say, my grand-father? He was born in 1919, loves planes, records the weather better than any weather station out there and used to make wine. No book out there will have all of this in one, except the book I can make for him. So here it goes. Let's start with the article <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919">1919</a>. I'll add some aviation stuff (how about the articles: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation">Aviation</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_aviation">General aviation</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_%28sailplane%29">Glider</a> (he used to glide), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_warfare">Aerial warfare</a> (he was a pilot in the war), I'll throw in a few French aviators and aviation history of his time, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Mermoz">Jean Mermoz</a> , <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-%C3%89xup%C3%A9ry">Antoine de Saint-Éxupéry</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_G%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_A%C3%A9ropostale">Générale Aéropostale</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Georges_Lat%C3%A9co%C3%A8re">Pierre Georges Latécoère</a>. I'll then move on to some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology">Meteorology</a> topics and add the article about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_gauge">Rain Gauge</a> (he has one in the garden that he checks every morning). And I'll finish up with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine">wine</a> theme: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contr%C3%B4l%C3%A9e">Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bordeaux_AOCs">Regional Bordeaux AOCs</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux_wine_regions">Bordeaux Wine Regions</a>. That should do it. I'll title it "From planes to wine, History and my Grand-Father", or something along those lines. </p></div><div>
</div><div>But there's also: my best friend, who'll get a thorough volume about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rock_music">Rock Music</a> with a pinch of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clooney">George Clooney</a>). My cousin, who just moved to Montréal, Canada, will love a book about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al">city</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec">Province</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">country</a>. There's also my favorite colleague. She's a news buff, so for her it'll be the Year 2010 according to Wikipedia. Something that mixes the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup">Football World Cup in South Africa</a> with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_crash">Polish plane crash</a> and adds a touch of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Chabrol">Claude Chabrol</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rohmer">Eric Rohmer</a> (she was a fan of their work).<p></p></div>
<div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TOPlFg4DzII/AAAAAAAAAFM/4Vdq2yVNrw8/s200/harcover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540523849483013250" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" border="0" /><p>In short, for every person, I can make the book that best represents them. A fine personal gift, all the more since I can now choose color content and hardcovers for a great look. What about you? Which book are you going to make for your loved ones? It's easy, it starts <a href="http://pediapress.com/wikipediabookcreator">here</a>. Don't forget to share the cool books you have made on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/PediaPress?v=wall">our Facebook page</a>!</p> </div>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-90158484741532553822010-11-09T17:11:00.024+01:002010-11-10T10:41:37.783+01:00Wikipedia Books Now in Color and Hardcovers<p>You've been asking, we've been listening. The most demanded features for our Wikipedia books were color inside and hardcover outside. It's now a reality. As of a few days ago, you can now order books in hardcover and with color content. We're very excited about these new features, because it allows you to make books that are not only customized, but also even more beautiful and resistant. They simply look good in your bookshelf.</p>
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TNlz_HTd_RI/AAAAAAAAAEs/kSQj6mookF0/s1600/color2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TNlz_HTd_RI/AAAAAAAAAEs/kSQj6mookF0/s400/color2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537584744958393618" /></a>
<p>Wikipedia articles are illustrated with material from <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia Commons</a>, which features more than 5 million freely licensed images and graphics. Some of those pictures are simply breathtaking, and offering color for our books is only paying justice to the amazing work of hundreds of volunteers who upload their free material on Wikimedia projects. It was long due, but it's now here.</p>
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TNlzRniaMAI/AAAAAAAAAEc/xQ4JKpK2raw/s1600/hardcover_from_above.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TNlzRniaMAI/AAAAAAAAAEc/xQ4JKpK2raw/s200/hardcover_from_above.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537583963337011202" /></a>
<p>As for hardcovers, they allow your customized Wikipedia books to be even more stunning. We've chosen for those hardcovers a cream-colored paper, which lends your books an extremely classy look, as well as opted for a bound silk bookmark, which comes in handy for easy reference.</p>
<p>Of course we still offer our paperback books. If you wish to add color or get a hardcover for your book, all you have to do is choose the corresponding option on the editing screen where you prepare your book (see screenshot). You can still have hardcover in Black and White as well as color in paperback. All combinations are possible. </p>
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TNl1wCE1pCI/AAAAAAAAAE0/1Gu1XLsTPgs/s1600/screenshot_077.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TNl1wCE1pCI/AAAAAAAAAE0/1Gu1XLsTPgs/s400/screenshot_077.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537586684880069666" /></a>
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<p>The hardcovers and color books are perfect for a special gift to someone you care about. Whether you go for t<a href="http://blog.pediapress.com/2010/02/time-to-travel-get-your-holidays-wiki.html">he Birthday Book</a>, or the <a href="http://blog.pediapress.com/2010/02/time-to-travel-get-your-holidays-wiki.html">Travel Book</a>, or simply any customized book from Wikipedia content, color and hardcover will make a difference, and a fantastic Christmas present!</p><p>
</p>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-32515302735792446502010-11-05T15:00:00.021+01:002010-11-05T15:47:17.810+01:00Wikimedia Hungary Closes Book Contest in the Hungarian Wikipedia<p></p><div>Wikimedia Hungary <a href="http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g/K%C3%B6nyvk%C3%A9sz%C3%ADt%C5%91_vet%C3%A9lked%C5%91">launched a book contest</a> (funky Google translation <a href="http://translate.google.fr/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=hu&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhu.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikip%25C3%25A9dia%3AWikim%25C3%25A9dia_Magyarorsz%25C3%25A1g%2FK%25C3%25B6nyvk%25C3%25A9sz%25C3%25ADt%25C5%2591_vet%25C3%25A9lked%25C5%2591">here</a>) a few weeks ago in the Hungarian Wikipedia. The idea was to have the Wikipedia community work on making the best possible books with Wikipedia articles. A jury of five people chose five books as winners:</div><p></p><div><ul><li>The Hittites</li>
<li>The Culture of Miskolc</li>
<li>The Champions of Formula–1</li>
<li>The Techniques and Machines of Metalworking</li>
<li>Chapters on the clothing and textile industry</li>
</ul></div><div></div><div>As one can see, a wide range of subjects, which also shows the wide array of topics available on Wikipedia for making customized books. The prize for the winners were to have their books printed through PediaPress.</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TNQQZpNp1hI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Xr6Ly492Tls/s1600/book_shelf.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 193px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TNQQZpNp1hI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Xr6Ly492Tls/s200/book_shelf.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536067874691077650" /></a> <div></div><p></p><div>I have asked Bence Damokos, member of the board of Wikimedia Hungary and initiator of the contest, a few questions about his experience with books and this contest. Here are his answers.</div><p></p><div></div><p></p><div><b>PediaPress: What gave Wikimedia Hungary the idea to launch a Book contest on the Hungarian Wikipedia?</b></div><p></p><div></div><div></div><div><b>Bence Damokos</b>: </div><blockquote><div>We found the possibility to print books out of Wikipedia articles an interesting concept ever since it was enabled on the English Wikipedia a couple of years ago. We felt that reusing content offline – either as specialized course-ware or thematic collections – would be a good indication that a given topic area is of suitable quality and credibility. Also, we realized in our presentations and outreach work that showing Wikipedia content as a book would be a very good demonstration tool to answer a range of common questions ("Is it any good?", "What are the topics that are really well written?", "How do you recognize a good article?" etc.).</div><div></div><div>This is why we decided that we need to print some books that can be used in various demonstrations. To design and edit the books that would serve these purposes we turned to the community with this book contest.</div></blockquote><div></div><div></div><p></p><div><b>PediaPress: What do you find books bring to the Wikipedia experience?</b></div><div><p></p></div><div><b>Bence Damokos</b>: </div><blockquote><div>I think that print can give a new dimension to how Wikipedia content is accessed and consumed. A printed book gives a frame to the incorporated topic allowing for a more focused study or browsing of a certain topic. I find that it is much easier to read and concentrate on an article when it is printed out; simply viewing it online will often just result in skimming the content and a number of other distractions.</div><div>An other very important aspect is that books are more tangible and convey a sense of value and credibility. Wikipedia stores such a vast amount of information that it is impossible to grasp without a metaphor; the fact that you can print a whole book on almost any single topic you can think of is amazing – and the book tool transforms this metaphor into a reality. This tangibility of the printed books also provides individual editors the possibility to create a real-world object out of their work, and it is a wonderful experience to see one's online effort materialize in a paper book.</div></blockquote><div></div><div></div><div></div><p><div><b>PediaPress: How do you plan to use the books in the future?</b></div></p><div><b>Bence Damokos</b>:<blockquote>Our primary aim is to use the books in our outreach activities: when giving presentations on Wikipedia, having wiki-meetups or going to meetings to discuss partnership proposals. We think that these books will be a very practical demonstration tool when talking about the quality, content and editorial policies of Wikipedia. The five books put together will show better than words that Wikipedia really tries to bring together the sum of human knowledge from all areas of life.</blockquote></div><div></div><p></p><div>A very interesting experience indeed, which we hope can be replicated in other Wikimedia Projects, in all possible languages. Community books are a great way to advance the distribution of free knowledge. If you wish to set up such a contest within your local Wikimedia project, just <a href="mailto:support@pediapress.com">contact us</a> and we'll work together to make it happen!</div><div></div><p><div>Photo credits: The five Wikipedia books printed for the Wikimedia Hungary Book Contest. © Bence Damokos, license: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-BY-SA</a>.</div></p>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-84659027599693440272010-10-20T08:42:00.004+02:002010-11-29T10:20:55.166+01:00Back to School: A Wikipedia Book To Start The Academic Year<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>As winter settles in and students slowly take their place back on the seats of universities and schools, I thought it'd be interesting to look at the initiatives that would make good books with good Wikipedia content. </p>
<p>On the topic of improving the quality of Wikipedia, there are quite a number of initiatives started at the school or university level, most of them destined to enrich the Encyclopedia on specific topics. The idea to have students add to Wikipedia under the supervision of their teacher is not exactly new; but it takes different turns every time. I remember the first project I was made aware of, five years ago, on the French Wikipedia. Jean-Noël Lafargue, a professor at the University of Paris VIII, started <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:P8">a workshop</a> in which the students were graded on their contributions to the French Wikipedia in the realm of Contemporary Art (digital arts, but also architecture, art history, cinema etc.). The idea of the project was mainly to make sure that the section about contemporary art grew under supervision and motivation. Such projects are actually much more numerous than one thinks, and the last one I was made aware of had an extremely interesting focus, namely the goal to make Chemistry concepts on the English Wikipedia more accessible to the layman. This was a <a href="http://media-newswire.com/release_1125808.html">project conducted by Anne McNeil</a>, a professor at the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>One of the first questions that comes to mind when putting Wikipedia on paper is often "what about the quality of the articles, are they worth putting on paper?". If University Professors actually work with their students in creating, correcting and rewriting Wikipedia articles, in short, if they think that Wikipedia is worth their time, then surely it is worth putting on paper.</p>
<a title="Back to school by Avolore, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52636849@N00/204934333/"><img alt="Back to school" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/204934333_7738d2e5a9.jpg" style="float: right;" height="230" width="285"></a>
<p>One of the things that often comes back in evaluating the quality of Wikipedia content is its extreme diversity. Wikipedia tackles topics that no other work of reference refers to, at least in such a comprehensive way. This is true for everyday topics (the much talked about Pokemons come to mind) but it is also true for very specific areas of science or literature, which stay obscure even for the specialists, but on which Wikipedia has a very detailed article.
This is where books come into play.</p>
<p>A book made from Wikipedia articles is an excellent introduction to whatever topic you are interested in. New students in Chemistry at University? No doubt the Wikipedia articles in Chemistry reviewed and rewritten under the supervision of Professor Anne McNeil are a good place to start the book that will give you all the information you need to start the year prepared on the subject. And this goes for every single topic you can dream of. Wikipedia does have 3.4 million articles after all. So go for it! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator">Start the book creator</a> and make the book that will accompany you through your studies on the topic of your choice. And <a href="http://blog.pediapress.com/2010/04/book-sharing-made-easy-who-will-you.html">share it with others</a>, so that other students can benefit from it!</p></div>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-58261128317969990872010-10-12T12:05:00.015+02:002010-10-12T12:25:09.174+02:00¡Hablamos Español!<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<p>Well, our "español" is not yet at the top of what it could be, but we're trying hard. We've finally gotten around to translate our web interface in Spanish. The Spanish Wikipedia is growing rapidly and offers now more than 650 000 articles for the reader to compile their books with. The "create a book" (<i>crear un libro</i>) has been enabled on the Spanish Wikipedia for quite some time now, and it has been well used in other language Wikipedias, but we hadn't gotten around to make it easier for Spanish speakers to get a hold of their own paperback made from Wikipedia articles. </p>
<p>Now, when people come to our website from the Spanish Wikipedia, they get to make their own book following instructions in Spanish.</p>
<p>The journey starts on Wikipedia, with the <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Libro&bookcmd=book_creator"><i>crear un libro</i></a> link, which one can find on the left hand side in the navigation bar, under <i>imprimir/exportar</i>. When you have started the book creator, you can add articles as you browse Wikipedia and make your own book. Once you've finished collecting the articles you want in your book, just click on <i>Previsualizar con PediaPress</i> in the section <i>Solicitar el libro impreso</i>. You'll be taken to our PediaPress Website... in Spanish! There you need to be a little patient <i>Por favor, espere unos minutos - su libro está siendo cargado</i>. Once that is done, you can personalize your cover and order your book... all in Spanish.</p>
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TLQ0FkzR_3I/AAAAAAAAAEE/2RJHA-d-SgY/s1600/screenshot_070.png"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TLQ0FkzR_3I/AAAAAAAAAEE/2RJHA-d-SgY/s1600/screenshot_070.png" border="0" alt="Cover image" width="512" height="288" /></a>
<p>Although our Spanish is a bit rusty and we can't guarantee that our grammar is perfect, we'll also try to answer your questions in Spanish. Don't hesitate to ask us through the feedback button if you need help, and if you find anything in our Spanish translation that does not make sense, or that is missing, don't hesitate either to just tell us, we'll do our best to ensure you get the best book experience ever!</p>
<p>¡Hasta luego!</p></div>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-62185756068352039162010-10-04T14:36:00.008+02:002010-10-04T18:25:35.683+02:00Let's Meet at the Franfurt Book Fair 2010<p>The <a href="http://www.buchmesse.de/en/fbf/">Frankfurt Book Fair</a> is the meeting point of all things book around the world. It is starting on Wednesday, October 6th. This year, we have decided to be present differently than the previous years. We'll be strolling the alleys and visiting partners, sharing experiences with like minded businesses, presenting our service in a conference, rather than have a booth. This said, if you want to get a hold of us - and we'd really love to see you there, it's always great to meet interested people for real rather than online or not at all - you have three possibilities.</p>
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<p>First, Argentina being the Guest of Honor of the Frankfurt book fair this year, you'll be able to meet the great folks of Wikimedia Argentina, with whom we've worked on books they can show you. They'll be presenting, most especially, their book on the Bicentenial of the May Revolution (<a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/bicentenario-de-la-revolucion-de-mayo-sel-9706a9bd/">Bicentenario de la Revolución de Mayo</a>). Throughout Thursday and Friday, you'll have a chance to catch them at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung booth: <strong>Hall 3.1 B 150</strong>. You should also go to the conference they're giving on <a href="http://en.book-fair.com/fbf/programme/calendar_of_events/detail.aspx?PageRequestId=7c5ad071-b4c8-4363-814a-e16024b7c516&a1850834-d682-44a4-9b98-1ff33a3bcb5c=67da5eb7-7d3c-4a77-ae45-237d59f320c4">Argentina Copyleft, the Crisis of Copyright and the Democratisation of Culture</a> on Thursday morning.</p>
<p>Second, our very own Christoph (Kepper) will be participating in a panel on the subject "<a href="http://en.book-fair.com/fbf/programme/calendar_of_events/detail.aspx?PageRequestId=2ca2fe2d-b400-4fed-b963-d99e64bf3495&a1850834-d682-44a4-9b98-1ff33a3bcb5c=b28b6b82-8c96-4162-b2b6-b404d140f1fe">Content Print on Demand – A Model for the Future?</a>" where he'll say what he thinks the future has in store for us and wiki books. Please go and bombard him with tough questions, he'll love that!</p>
<p>Third, Christoph, Eva, Heiko and myself will be at various times and days at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Just drop us an email <a href="http://pediapress.com/feedback-box/?next=/">through the feedback form</a> if you want to meet, with your email/phone and we'll get back to you, or phone in at +49 (0) 6131 327 180 9 to make an appointment! We're looking forward to seeing you in the great Temple of books! </p>
<p><em>Photo: © Dontworry, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Source: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messe-frankfurt-ffm002.jpg">Wikimedia Commmons</a></em></p>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-62533540202008662112010-08-30T17:47:00.016+02:002010-08-31T16:11:28.302+02:00Spicing Up Your Book Experience: The New Preview Feature<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">To create a book on Wikipedia is easy: all it takes is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator">to start the book creator</a> and add the Wikipedia articles you want to see in your book. Until now, when you wanted to have your book printed and were directed to the <a href="http://pediapress.com/">PediaPress website</a>, all you had was a basic book preview that allowed you to take a peek at your book, but didn't really give you the feel of the book.
<p>We've improved the book preview recently, and here is the rundown of the new features we have introduced, namely, a book preview that gives you a real life experience of what your book will end up looking like.</p>
<p>When you arrive on the PediaPress page that allows you to give the final touch to your book (adding the right title, subtitle and editor's name, as well as choosing the cover image), you will see a link just under your book, which asks you to click to preview (actually, you can click anywhere on the book to open the preview). In the old preview, this link opened to an image showing the inside of your book on one page. Good, but not good enough. We have revamped the preview feature and changed a few things that needed a little novelty.</p>
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<p>When you click on the cover to fire up the preview, the first thing you see is the cover. Maximized and in color, it gives you a better impression of what your book will look like when you hold it in your hands. You can then navigate the book with right and left arrows, which appear when you hover over the edge of the cover (example below)</p>
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<p>The content preview is based on the first few articles (pages) of your book. The former preview that showed one page after another was replaced by a spread of both right and left pages, giving you a better feel of what the typesetting looks like for real. It gives a better sense of use of space and picture placement in the finished book.</p>
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<p>Only the first 50 pages of your book are previewed. The first ones, numbered with Roman Numerals, are the Table of Contents, which shows you how many pages the book is going to have. When you click on one page, you are taken to the next page (right page goes forward, left page goes backward). The last pages of the preview are the last pages of the book, giving you a sample of the Appendix which comes at the end of the book and presents:</p>
* Article Sources and Contributors
* Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors
* Index (series of keywords extracted from the body of articles)
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<p>Thanks to our new book preview, you now have a good look of the book on your screen and you can better imagine how it will look like in your hands.</p>
<p>Time for you to make a new book to try it out!</p>
</div>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-69240288326006341842010-08-20T15:34:00.016+02:002010-08-20T18:13:38.970+02:00The Book, the eBook and the Future<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>As <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1">Wired proclaimed the death of the web</a>, it struck me that many times over the years, I had read articles about how the paper book was dead, or about to die. It took only a Google search to find that the headlines proclaiming or questionning the death of the traditional (read: paper) publishing industry are legion. Since it is a topic that touches us closely, I thought I'd share my findings and some thoughts with you.</p>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/43602175@N06/4070018782/" title="Amazon Kindle eBook Reader by goXunuReviews, on Flickr"><img style="align:center; margin:10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/4070018782_a9f76393b0.jpg" width="450" height="230" alt="Amazon Kindle eBook Reader" /></a>
<p>Of the many "The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book" entries I found on the internet, I found two to be of particular interest. They date back to 2006, times when the Kindle, iPad and other such digital reading devices didn't exist for the layman, except maybe in the dreams of a few techies who were working on them. The first one is one by Jeff Jarvis, entitled...well, "<a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/19/the-book-is-dead-long-live-the-book/">The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book</a>". Jarvis in his post addresses the question of digital over paper, which at the time was a threat looming upon the horizon, and focuses on content, arguing that most of the most successful books are simply badly written. He ends his post on these words:</p>
<blockquote>I’m waiting for someone to lament that these kids today don’t read. But they read a lot. They may not read books as much and they may read their share of inspipid personal pages, but they also can now find and read information that is more relevant to them and that is recommended by people they trust thanks to the technology of the internet. I think — or, to be more accurate, I hope — that this will lead to more of a true meritocracy of writing. Good writing will rise. Bad writing may still be on the airport newsstand shelves. But then, when you’re braindead on a six-hour flight, sometimes a braindead book is still just what you need.
</blockquote>
<p>A day later, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2006/05/are_books_dead.html">Stephen Baker in Business Week</a> reacts to Jarvis' post, and defends books, arguing that he'd:</p>
<blockquote> take a book over any of the interactive tools they’re building at MIT
or Disney. Books give you access to great minds of the past, and they do a better job than any other medium I know of transporting you to those times and places.</blockquote>
<p>That's a snippet of the debate back in 2006. What does this conversation look like today? Still searching, I stumbled upon two much more recent posts, written in the past week. First an extremely interesting post by Carly Z, asking "<a href="http://www.geardiary.com/2010/08/13/is-the-paper-book-dead/">Is the Paper Book Dead?</a>. Carly Z addresses a broad range of areas where the eBook has to come together before it can really take over the paper book, from pricing to format, content and audience. I recommend the read, it's a good one. In the end, I tend to agree with Carly Z in the conclusion of the post:</p>
<blockquote>Honestly, I think the various declarations of “Print is dead in 5 years/10 years/already dead” are missing the broader picture. There are many moving pieces to making digital books dominant, and they aren’t as simple as “prices go down/availability goes up”. Consumers need to be comfortable with ebooks, the content and hardware need to work well together, and the most important part is remembering that just because ebooks may become dominant does not mean paper books are going to disappear.
</blockquote>
<p>Another post by Om Malik caught my attention. Titled (again!) "<a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/08/17/books-vs-ebooks/">The Book is Dead! Long Live the Book</a>!" touches upon his experience of slowly shifting to eBooks, mainly for practical reasons but most importantly how:</p>
<blockquote>Internet connectivity and multimedia capabilities give us an opportunity to rethink what a book is, and even re-imagine the art of storytelling.
</blockquote>
<p>All of these reflexions got me thinking. Here at PediaPress, we bring digital content (wikis!) to paper. I won't hide that we've been thinking (and asked, by some people) about also offering eBooks made from wiki content. We still haven't gotten around to it. We might, or we might not. I see PediaPress' adventure as one that bridges the digital and the paper world. Our content is written, amended, updated and rewritten by you all, which makes it an ever shifting content. With this I guess we transcend Jeff Jarvis' lamentations on the quality of content, since the content of our books can change when it's needed, or deemed obsolete. Our books don't fit the definition Jarvis gives:</p>
<blockquote>[Books] are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. They have no link to related knowledge, debates, and sources.
</blockquote>
<p>Because books from wikis are of a different nature. They are rather a picture than a freeze, something like what Polaroid is to traditional photography. You can make your book, and remake it a year later, jsut to see the changes in the topic you've chosen.</p>
<p>The content being online to start with, they actually do give links and sources and you could even print the talk pages of Wikipedia if you wanted to follow the debate on a topic.</p>
<p>Although we don't exactly print out books that do storytelling in the strict sense of the term, our books tell stories of how knowledge evolves. And the sum of human knowledge, at that.
</p>
<p>I am also still convinced that nothing replaces paper when it comes to annotations (ah, the feeling of conversing with the author that writing an exclamation mark with a pen in the paper margin gives!), personalisation (nothing compares to giving a paper book rather than send a pdf, I think), or to some extent, practicality (book on the beach, losing your book, taking your book in places where a Kindle or an iPad wouldn't survive...).</p>
<p>I guess I am biased. After all, we do paper books. But I'm curious what you all think. What's your take on the future of the paper book? Should we also go digital? Why do you even create and buy PediaPress books? Does paper have for you the same attraction that it has for us? Tell us in the comments.</p></div>
<p>[photo source: Amazon Kindle eBook Reader by goXunuReviews, on Flickr, CC-BY]</p>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-21401577679458699882010-07-23T14:10:00.011+02:002010-07-23T17:03:06.236+02:00The Beach, My Book and I<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TEmHXAOSwGI/AAAAAAAAAC0/f-i6LCBqHec/s1600/tim_bartel_beach_book.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d2SDD69L8Xk/TEmHXAOSwGI/AAAAAAAAAC0/f-i6LCBqHec/s320/tim_bartel_beach_book.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497073649449091170" border="0" /></a>
<p>This is the time of the year that we all have been waiting for in this hemisphere. Holidays! It's been way too hot in the past few days and we're all ready to just go away, leave behind us work, boss and responsibilities, and take a break. But the holidays are also this great time to catch up on all the reading we haven't done in the year. </p>
<p>I don't know about you, but I hate going on holidays and doing (really) nothing. I mean, don't get me wrong, I will take an hour or two just lying on the beach looking at the ocean, but more than that and I get bored. I would take my computer and surf the net to catch up on all the info I don't have time to read as I would like during the rest of the year, but it's too heavy, and it won't take the sand, and it's way too hot out there for my computer's fragile components. I do have my smartphone, but I'm going to France, and roaming is way too expensive to be surfing on my dataplan. Not to mention that with the reverberation on the beach, the screen is hard to read. So I'm stuck looking at the sea. As I said, nice for an hour or two, but after a while, simply boring. But this beach time really is the one time where reading something profound, or something mindless, makes the most sense. We need reading ideas.</p>
<p>What better choice than spending some time (in those empty summer hours where there is no work to do anyway ;-)) compiling a few Wikipedia articles into a book? You could do your own or browse <a href="http://pediapress.com/books/">our catalogue</a>. My choice would be to take <a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/star-wars-episodes-by-wikipedians/">the whole of Star Wars on Wikipedia</a> with me, because I've thought about (yet again) watching all the episodes. A little background would be good. I suppose some of you will prefer to take with you the book of <a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/time-an-overview-by-wikipedians/">Time</a>, while others will fall for <a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/hadronic-matter-an-overview-by-wikipedian/">Hadronic Matter</a>. </p>
<p>In short, before you go on holidays, take the time to compile your favorite subjects in a book that will fit in your bag, not mind the sun or the sand and not cost you an arm and a leg. You can start <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator">here</a>, and if you haven't done it before, you might want to look at our video, which I embed here for your convenience.</p>
<p>Happy holidays, safe travels and great reads!</p>
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<p>Wikipedia In Print - How to create custom books with a mix of content from the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>[image source: © Tim Bartel -<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/avatar-1/3936059307/in/photostream/">Konzentration auf Strand</a>, CC-BY-SA]</p>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-8847934751943911992010-06-30T12:37:00.006+02:002010-07-05T16:12:11.600+02:00PediaPress Wiki Books Go Wikimania!<p></p><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">In only a week, the whole PediaPress Team will be going to Gdańsk, to take part in <a href="http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/">Wikimania</a>, the international Wikimedia annual conference. It is the 6th edition of Wikimania, and we're looking forward to it, as it is a great way for us to meet and mingle with the Wikimedia Community and get hands-on feedback on our books and features.<p></p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Baner_Wikimania2010_-_Gdansk.png" style="max-width: 800px; float: right; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;" width="371" height="239" />
<p>This year, we'll be giving presentations and workshops about books and their impact on the Wikimedia Projects and the World.</p>
<p>Gaëtan (Headbomb) will be giving a presentation on how the use of <a href="http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_Books:_How_Offline_Improves_Online">Wikipedia content offline actually helps better the quality of content online</a>. I urge you to attend this presentation. It is amazing what making a book brings to the way one sees Wikipedia articles and Gaëtan has been working hard in getting the Wikiproject Wikipedia-Books off the ground, so he has hands-on experience which is worth hearing.</p>
<p>Heiko will be talking about <a href="http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikis_In_Print_2010">how much the book tool has evolved in the past year and what we have in store for an ever more interesting and more useful book creator</a>. He will also propose a workshop to help trigger more ideas and find viable solutions to <a href="http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Publishing_Wikipedia_Books:_Implementing_a_community_driven_process_to_get_Wikipedia_into_book_stores">publish Wikipedia Books and get them into bookstores</a>.</p>
<p>Wikimania is a lot of fun and a great place to meet everyone remotely interested in the field of wikis and that of free knowledge. Before Wikimania, we'll also be hanging around <a href="http://www.wikisym.org/ws2010/tiki-index.php">Wikisym</a>, the place to be for research about wikis and wiki communities.</p>
<p>We're looking forward to meeting you there, don't hesitate to drop us a word in the comments if you want to meet in Gdańsk, for a beer or a book ;). You can also grab us at the conference when you see us, most of us will be there!</p>
</div>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31198955.post-83147722366367313942010-05-14T22:28:00.009+02:002010-05-14T22:39:37.534+02:00What a Week For Wiki Books in Print!<p>It's been quite a week this past week, indeed! In all fairness, we've always known that the book creator is a great feature for Wikipedia and all wikis, but we were not so sure about our ability to show the world what great things you can do with it.</p>
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<p>Well, we didn't really have to, because it seems everyone picked up on how interesting, different, and not so crazy the concept of wikipedia articles in print really is. It all started with <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/">Techcrunch</a> picking up the story of how <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/06/wikipedia-and-pediapress-now-allow-you-to-create-books-from-content-in-english/">Wikipedia and PediaPress Now Allow You To Create Books From Content In English</a>. <a href="http://www.mashable.com/">Mashable</a> reported about how <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/05/06/wikipedia-books/">Wikipedia Now Lets You Order Printed Books</a> and engaged its readers to ask themselves whether the Book creator was "a cool way to use free content" and whether they "might use PediaPress to create a book for [themselves] or a friend?".</p>
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<p>On Twitter, many people retweeted Techcrunch's or Mashable's articles, but some added their little comments. <a href="http://twitter.com/tsutrav/">sutrav</a> remarked that "<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content"><a href="http://twitter.com/tsutrav/statuses/13508805975">PediaPress will take any wiki you want, typeset & print it and mail you the book</a>" (well, any wiki that runs Mediawiki and the collection extension, really). Jay Walsh, Head of communication of the Wikimedia Foundation, of which PediaPress is an official partner, pointed out how it was "</span></span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content"><a href="http://twitter.com/jansonw/statuses/13510810151">Time to make that 'WP's history of coffee table books' book!</a>", this while the <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia Foundation Blog</a> reported on how it gets <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/05/06/more-ways-to-share/">easier to share free content</a> thanks to the book creator.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/paulmwatson">Paul M. Watson</a> found that "</span></span><a href="http://twitter.com/paulmwatson/status/13539264902"><span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">The new Create A Book feature on Wikipedia works quite nicely for PDFs.</span></span></span></a><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">" and realised that you can</span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content"> then "<a href="http://twitter.com/paulmwatson/status/13539391520">get a printed book version of your Wikipedia book from Pediapress. Awesome.</a>"</span></span></span> while, Tom Sepp called teachers <span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">to "<a href="http://twitter.com/tsepp/status/13620827437">Combine a wiki with print and digital publishing tools for a new way to produce educational resources</a>"</span></span></span>.</p>
<p>Meredith Blake of <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/">The New Yorker</a> was sceptic at first, but then decided that <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/05/wiki-books.html">a "customized Wikipedia book [...] now strikes [her] as a wonderfully democratic thing</a>." And while Steve Attard decided that he "<a href="http://twitter.com/sattard/status/13537302459">love[d] D way D publishing <span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">industry is changing..." [because] "Wikipedia And PediaPress Now Allow You To Create Books From Content</span></span></span></a>", others started making their very own books. <a href="http://www.lostremote.com/">Lost remote</a> made their very own "<a href="http://www.lostremote.com/2010/05/08/now-available-the-lost-remotewikipedia-guide-to-media/">The Lost Remote Wikipedia Guide to Media</a>", while <a href="http://twitter.com/iso757/statuses/13805674793">Jesse CourteManche</a> "<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">finished compiling [his] PediaPress book on the
roots of globalism; “<a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/dawn-of-the-20th-century-how-a-one-world-1099e4e3/?sms_ss=twitter">Dawn of the 20th Century</a>”</span></span></span>.</p>
<p>Well, these are just a few of the cool things we saw out there in the blogo-twitto-news-o-sphere and we're very grateful that our hard work was noticed and showed off as it was. It motivates us to do ever better and more for making the book creator a top tool for bringing wikis to print.</p>
<p>As I write this, <a href="http://twitter.com/StevenWalling/status/13989284578">Steven Walling has just received the sample PediaPress book</a> we sent him, let's see how he likes it. And actually, if you are a journalist and want to see what wiki books look like, <a href="http://pediapress.com/press/">don't hesitate to contact us</a>.</p>
<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content"></span></span></span></div>Delphinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998206136683878764noreply@blogger.com0