Lars Aronsson wrote: > Yann Forget wrote: > >> I started a proposal on the Strategy Wiki: >> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Building_a_database_of_all_books_ever_published >> >> IMO this should be a join project between Openlibrary and Wikimedia. > > Again, I don't understand why. What exactly is missing in > OpenLibrary? Why does it need to be a new, joint project? > > The page says "There is currently no database of all books ever > published freely available." But OpenLibrary is a project already > working towards exactly that goal. It's not done yet, and its > methods are not yet fully developed. But neither would your new > "joint" project be, for a very long time. > > Wikipedia is also far from complete, far from containing "the sum > of all human knowledge". But that doesn't create a need to start > entirely new encyclopedia projects. It only means more > contributors are needed in the existing Wikipedia.
You just give again the same arguments, to which I have answered. Did you read my answer? Regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l