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German Wikipedia is a German-language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Started in May 2001, this edition has 179,000 articles, as of December 2004, and is the second largest one, next to the English edition.
In September 2004, the German Wikipedia was evaluated against the Brockhaus multimedial and the localized edition of Microsoft's Encarta by c't, a respected computer magazine. On a scale from 0 to 5, Wikipedia 'won' with a total score of 3.4. [1] (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2004/10/04)
A few weeks later, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit also compared content from wikipedia with other reference works and found that Wikipedia only has to "share its lead position in the field of natural science." [2] (http://www.zeit.de/2004/43/C-Enzyklop_8adien-Test).
In November 2004, directmedia publishing GmbH started distributing a CD-ROM containing a German Wikipedia snapshot [3] (http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/scripts/ts.dll?s=1&id=E0016306&mp=/art/1266/&sc=Wikipedia.htm). Some 40,000 CDs were sent to registered customers of directmedia. The .iso file was distributed via eMule and BitTorrent and in December, the CHIP computer magazine had this program on the DVD of its current issue. It is planned to release a DVD in March 2005 at the Leipzig book fair.
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