Right. NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned this morning. Is it 'a website'?
The Internet Archive and many others include roughly 2 million PD books, just under 1 billion pages of text.
Flickr Commons has many times the # of free content photos of WM Commons.
What sets WM projects apart is the amount of curation and collection management that has gone into it, making the vast majority of the work both well and consistently categorized, revised and improved where possible to remove duplicates and mistakes, and sifted to filter up material that is both useful for general education, and can be cross connected or linked with other such material [via both internal links and citations].
In that sense, Wikimedia is the largest online project I know of.
But if we wanted to make wikisource a repository for all free content licensed material available anywhere online, it would become 100x to 1000x the size of all other projects combined.
SJ
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:19 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 July 2011 07:26, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Is Wikipedia the largest "free content" website? i.e. website consisting primarily of free content.
The only competitors that I can think of are
- Project Gutenberg, however they have a few free-gratis etexts
sprinkled through their collection.
- Million Books Project http://www.ulib.org/
In terms of raw data the answer is no. wikimedia commons is larger.
Other than that you are probably mostly looking at US goverment stuff. The patent office for example.
-- geni
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