Lars Aronsson wrote:
Brian wrote:
I recently (today) acquired a DVD containing scans of every page of the 1911 Britannica, along with index files for it all, [...] TimStarling specifically asked me to tell you all that he is "confident that the server requirements will be minimal." They would set up a domain name, generate some web pages automatically using the index files, and host the entire set of 29,700 files totaling about 4 GB.
What is suddenly wrong with using Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource? Why do you need a new domain and server just for this book? Didn't you see http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work
I think they want this to be on a separate domain because not only is 1911EB a famous encyclopedia, Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from it, and several projects still want its contents. So, they would rather prop it up and give it a separate space specifically designed for making 1911EB's contents easily accessible.