Free German Wikipedia DVD

Written by James Delahunty @ 10 Dec 2005 9:16 User comments (5)

German publisher Directmedia is taking thousands of Wikipedia entries and images and putting them on DVD and making them available in print. The DVD is available as a free download, a 7.5GB ISO image (which of course you can burn directly to DVD, if you have a dual layer burner and DL media). An earlier DVD version released in spring had just 2.7GB in comparison. That version however, was found to contain over 100 copyrighted articles; when noticed, Directmedia replaced the DVD image.

This new version has 200,000 - 300,000 entires (all in German) and over 100,000 images. Only content from writers known to be reliable is included. The print version will be sold for €9.90 to cover expenses. Wikipedia publishes everything under a GNU Free Documentation Licence, the same licence used by developers of open-source software; the publisher cannot claim copyright.

Anyway, I thought some of our German users would be interested to know that. The DVD ISO is available here. To burn ISO images, I recommend ImgBurn (freeware). Get it here.

Sources:
The Register
Wikipedia

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110.12.2005 09:33

weazel200

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If you go to the english version of the wikipedia site they've locked the Geore Bush page due to vandalism. Thought I might add this for people that didn't know. As for the DVD, articles are always being updated so won't it be pointless if they put a article on there which is not up to date or just inaccurate.

211.12.2005 09:29

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Have never heard that you could get wikipedia work on a DVD-player. Does anyone know if it's possible to get it on some other languages also?

311.12.2005 09:37

S2K

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if you have any acadeic backgound in a topic it is amazing hwo innacurate wikipedia can be. Absolutely everything to with history, culture, geography etc is a morrass of nationalism and absurd assertions.

412.12.2005 02:31

lajr1980

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sounds cool but I'll pass...

512.12.2005 19:03

Escobar22

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I totally disagree with S2K. Prove it with an entry you dispute.........

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