On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > On 09/15/11 8:50 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> Wikisource, for example, needs money to scan books. Wiktionary needs >> also. Even Wikipedia benefits from the projects in which money has >> given for writing articles (last example: WM Canada program for >> writing articles in medicine). But, it's easier to accept those >> things, than to accept that Wikinews needs at least one person to care >> about things when no one else is able to care. > > I don't know about that. Wikisource already has more scanned books > available than it can handle, even if we just limit ourselves to those > where the public domain status is absolutely indisputable. A relatively > small numbers should still be scanned for the sake of > comprehensiveness. The big challenge is in how to make this useful to a > larger audience.
It is true that we have more English scanned books than we could transcribe in a hundred years, but there are many languages which have very few scanned books available online, and there are some important English works which are not available as scans yet. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
