The most impractical implementation of Wikipedia so far – gets printed

Well lucky readers, the answer to the question that many of you have been pondering on for so long now; what does Wikipedia look like printed?

The feat was carried out by Rob Matthews who said “Reproducing Wikipedia in a dysfunctional physical form helps to question its use as an internet resource”, according to Silicon Valley Insider.

And if you’re sat there thinking “well, it’s a lot, but it’s not that much” then let us just jump in a second to remind you that this is just the featured articles, not the full shebang.

The tome runs to 5000 pages and is less coffee table reading, and more, well, just a coffee table.

If you’re interested in getting hold of your very own, then give us a shout and we’ll fire up the old dot-matrix for you, actually, no, no we won’t – interesting as it is to see, we’re not about to encourage that particular use of paper for what is, in practical terms, unreadable. and in factual terms, often spurious.

(We’re not too proud to accept that the use of the word spurious may have been misrepresentative of Wikipedia’s Featured Article quality, and as the plucky commentator points out below there is actually a fairly exhaustive inclusion process for the section. Which just leaves Wikipedia’s regular articles as often spurious.)

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