Hi; Perhaps, you may want to help me compiling information about this topic and improving the estimate.[1]
There is a false sensation about Wikipedia being almost complete. In the other hand, projects like WikiSource are in their infance, for example, Internet Archive hosts about 3 million public domain books,[2] how many of them are available at WikiSource? This project compile images for every square kilometre in Britain.[3] We can use this idea for Commons, and take thousands of millions of photos of all the world. : ) Regards, emijrp [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge [2] http://www.archive.org/details/texts [3] http://www.geograph.org.uk/ 2011/9/16 Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is "the sum of all > > human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic". > > > > Not ALL, ALL, ALL human knowledge. MySpace discarded. > > When you look back to when that quote was issued (at least 2004), I > think I tend to see it as broader and more aspirational. Wikipedia > was already the biggest project, but we still imagined ourselves > making a statement with Wikinews and Wiktionary and everything else. > Back in the day, I can certainly imagine Wikimedia wanting to > encompass all forms of human knowledge, including projects going far > beyond the confines of what we now see as notable and encyclopedic. > We have retreated from that quite a lot. Even within Wikipedia our > notions of what was acceptable and what was not were far more fluid. > > The projects have accomplished an incredible amount, and we should all > be very proud and amazed at what we have done. However, I do think we > have lost some of that early dream. Back in the day, it was easy to > imagine that we would eventually encompass all human knowledge, and > now we tend to draw our goals more narrowly. In part, I think our > perceptions of that famous quote have been evolving alongside our > perceptions of what Wikimedia and Wikipedia have become. > > -Robert Rohde > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l