In preparation for this year's Wikimania conference, a small team of developers are raising money to print a physical copy of the open source online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia.
The project would see 1,000 printed books at about 1,200 pages each, essentially bringing the collective crowdsourced knowledge of the internet to life in physical form.

Each volume will feature continuous page numbers meaning the last article could sit somewhere around page 1,193,014. It would take a 10 metre long, 2.5 metre high book case to store all of the works.

To achieve this, the team plans to convert Wikipedia content into printable PDF format. Once the full website, including images, is aggregated and processed, content will then be rendered automatically in a three column layout across multiple volumes. Each book will be hardback and printed in grey scale, but if the team pulls in enough funding it may be possible to publish the volumes in full colour.
If successful in reaching the $50,000 IndieGogo goal, the books will be exhibited at Wikimania London in August 2014, the annual public conference to be held at the Barbican Centre this year, but may go on a world tour if enough money is raised, before being donated to a public library.
This is perhaps one of the more literal interpretations of the digital becoming physical, and bears similarities to recent projects we've looked at, such as the Living Pinterest Board.