On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)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