On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@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