UPDATING A PRINTED WIKIPEDIA
纸质版维基百科
Q. If you had a printed version of the whole of (say, the English) Wikipedia, how many printers would you need in order to keep up with the changes made to the live version?
Q．如果你要把整个英文版维基百科打印出来，那么你需要多少台打印机才能赶上网络版本的更新速度？
——Marein Könings
——马里安•科宁斯
A. THIS MANY.
A．这么点就够了。
If a date took you home and you saw a row of working printers set up in his or her living room, what would you think?
如果你的男友/女友带你回家，你发现他/她的客厅里有一排打印机轰轰作响，你会怎么想？
That 8217;s surprisingly few printers! But before you try to create a live-updating paper Wikipedia, let 8217;s look at what those printers would be doing . . . and how much they 8217;d cost.
原来只要这么点儿打印机就够了！但在你打算自己打印一套实时更新的纸质版维基百科出来之前，让我们先看看打印机需要干些什么……以及这么做要花多少钱。
Printing Wikipedia
打印维基百科
People have considered printing out Wikipedia before. One student, Rob Matthews, printed every Wikipedia featured article, creating a book several feet thick.
事实上曾有人考虑过把维基百科全部打出来这个想法。几年前，一个叫作罗布•马修斯的学生把维基百科上的所有“特色条目”都打印了出来，于是就有了一本一米多厚的书。
Of course, that 8217;s just a small slice of the best of Wikipedia; the entire encyclopedia would be a lot bigger. Wikipedia user Tompw has set up a tool that calculates the current size of the whole English Wikipedia in printed volumes. It would fill a lot of bookshelves.
当然了，这些只是维基百科所有精华的九牛一毛，整个维基百科要比它大得多。一名维基百科用户Tompw建立了一个页面，计算整个英文维基百科如果全部打印出来要占多少地方。结论是它至少会填满好几十个书架。
Keeping up with the edits would be hard.
要想赶上实时更新的速度可不容易。
Keeping up
赶上更新速度
The English Wikipedia currently receives about 125,000 to 150,000 edits each day, or 90–100 per minute.
英文版维基百科现在每天有12.5万～15万次修改，相当于每分钟有90～100次。