Print Wikipedia

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Artist Michael Mandiberg and assistant Jonathan Kiritharan of the "Print Wikipedia" project, at the "From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!" exhibition, on the day before its opening at Denny Gallery, New York City, US[1]

Print Wikipedia is an art project by Michael Mandiberg that included a printed edition of 106 volumes of the English Wikipedia as it existed on 7 April 2015. The bound paper volumes, each running 700 pages, represented a fraction of the 7,473 total volumes necessary to render the encyclopedia's extant text on that date. As first shown at the Denny Gallery in New York City, United States, during summer 2015,[2] the project included a display of the spines of the first 1,980 volumes in the set.[1][3] The 106 printed volumes included only text of the encyclopedia articles: images and references were omitted.[4] Supplementing the printed volumes of encyclopedia articles, additional print volumes included the appendix to all 7.5 million contributors to English Wikipedia (in 36 volumes) and a table of contents (in 91 volumes).[5]

Print Wikipedia on display on the wall at Arizona State University

From 24 February to 21 May 2016, it was exhibited inside the Charles Trumbull Hayden Library on the Arizona State University Tempe campus, adjacent to the library's conventional encyclopedia section.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference The Hindu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Hegert, Natalie (24 June 2015). "Standing Out in the Crowd: 10 Summer Solo Shows Around the World in 2015". MutualArt.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  3. ^ Sawers, Paul (17 June 2015). "You can soon buy a 7,471-volume printed version of English Wikipedia for $500,000". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 5 February 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. ^ Wikipedia, Volume 0873, Arturo O'Farrill Jr. --- Art Deco, Publisher Michael Mandiberg, 2015, page 611450 ISBN 9781329244580
  5. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (16 June 2015). "Moving Wikipedia From Computer to Many, Many Bookshelves". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  6. ^ Duvernay, Jennifer (2016). "In the Stacks: Print Wikipedia". Archived from the original on 22 February 2017.
  7. ^ O’Donnell, Jim (12 March 2016). "Michael Mandiberg's Print Wikipedia at Arizona State University". Denny Gallery. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023.
  8. ^ Mandiberg, Michael (March 2016). "Print Wikipedia". mandiberg.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023.