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I'm Michael Mandiberg

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I'm an artist in New York City and

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I wrote software that transforms Wikipedia

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Into seven thousand four hundred and seventy-three books.

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There's two reasons why I did this.

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One is I wanted to see how big it was.

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It was a question I had.

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The other reason is that

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as an artist, I work a lot with

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found materials and I like to try to

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see what the smallest move I can make is

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that will transform them.

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So in this case, taking them from

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A text form in a database or as a website

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and turning them into books

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was enough of a transformation

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that the meaning itself is different.

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Wikipedia is free to share

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and copy and remix

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under its Creative Commons license and

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that's what makes a project like this possible.

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What's interesting is that

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under a Creative Commons license

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you have to give attribution.

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In order to give attribution to all

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seven and a half million contributors

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to English Wikipedia

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I created a contributor appendix

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that's thirty-six volumes long

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that lists every one of their names

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in alphabetical order.

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This is only English Wikipedia.

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It's not my intention to print the whole thing.

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I don't think you need to print the whole thing.

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You need to print some of it, you need to see some of them

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so you have an understanding of what this form is.

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Our brains can complete the rest of it.

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Wikipedia