[WikiEN-l] Concise Print Wikipedia (WARNING)

[Daniel P.B.Smith]

> I haven't really been paying attention, but it seems like the
> possibility of a printed snapshot of Wikipedia is under discussion.
>
> I hope you are all very very VERY familiar with the disastrous
> experiences of Eric Weisstein when he gave a publisher permission to
> print a snapshot of his online mathematics encyclopedia.
>
> See  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/docs/legal.html .

And, for a nice concise version of the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathWorld

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