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News from Wikipedia 1.0
 * By Mitch (Greeves), 30 April, 2007

In Summer 2003, Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia, announced plans to create a stable version of Wikipedia (unrelated to last year's unofficial CD selection). It was later decided that this would be done in three stages: Version 0.5, Version 0.7, and Version 1.0. With the selection for version 0.5 complete the CD is now on sale from www.wikipediaondvd.com for $13 USD.

Although this is only a test release, we really tried to produce something the Wikipedia community could feel proud of. We wanted to cover the major topics, while also including a selection of articles considered to be the very best of Wikipedia. These ‘featured articles’ aim to be well written and comprehensive, and also free from errors, bias, vandalism and marketing.

Selection is currently underway for the 0.7 release while the team reached the milestone of 500,000 assessed articles thanks to over 500 WikiProjects. If you are interested in helping out, please visit the Version 1.0 Editorial Team page.