[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 153

[Ray Saintonge]

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:

>Sarah wrote
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>>Any public library can order material that's in a regular academic
>>library. 
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>Sorry - any public library in Kerala, Kampala or even Lima can order up anything from any academic library? Do remember that this is a global project. The 'populist' idea that anybody should be able to fact-check anything rather founders on the reality that it at most refers to about 5% of the world population, selected just about entirely on wealth.
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>We are really doing the opposite: making the cream of reliable-source material actually globally available whereever there is a decent internet connection. 
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It's what we are doing, not what we have done.  The observation that it 
is now only available to the richest 5% is, IMHO, intuitively true.  Our 
work will not be done until the resources are freed and available to 
all, and that's a big task.

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