Wikipedia Becomes a Book; Inaccurate Info Gains New Audience
Some poor sap has turned hundreds of Wikipedia articles into an actual book, providing erroneous information to an entire new crop of unsuspecting minds.
Thank God: The world of print-bound information has finally caught up with the Information Age.
Up until now, most printed texts had contained largely factual and verified information, pored over by numerous editors before ever reaching the paper. Now, though, the kind of community-created, error-strewn info we’ve come to expect from the Internet can be found within a properly bound book.
The Wikipedia Book
A fellow from the U.K. has created the world’s first printed book of Wikipedia reference material, he announced this week. At 5,000 pages, the book stands a full foot-and-a-half tall. It’s said to contain some of the site’s finest materials, with more than 400 “featured articles” included.
“These articles are deemed the best articles in Wikipedia, and are determined so based on their quality of referencing, accuracy, neutrality, completeness and style,” the book’s creator tells the Telegraph.
“As a result, they only contain approximately four to seven errors each,” he did not add.
Sinbad and Paul Reiser were rumored to be interested in helping publicize the project during its early development. Negotiations, however, reportedly fell through when both men were proclaimed dead on Wikipedia.
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