Translation requests/Wikimania05-book/translations/Wikimania05/Presentation-KK2

This page is part of the Proceedings of Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.


Poster: Wikipedia on DVD edit

  • Author(s): Kilian Kissling
  • Audience: ?
  • License: ?
  • Language: English. German also possible (may answer questions in Italian and French).
  • Type: Poster

About the author
Kilian Kissling (38 yrs. old), since 1997 sales director of Directmedia Publishing GmbH - the publisher of the german DVD-ROM "Wikipedia - Ausgabe Frühjahr 2005". As a bookseller, he started to sell software and multimedia-products in 1992.


Abstract edit

It started as a marketing-idea of a give-away and became a bestselling DVD-ROM in Germany. What makes the offline-Wikipedia attractive? How did the distribution work? How will it continue? The whole story, figures and facts. Questions and discussion welcome!