On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:08 PM, John at Darkstar <vacuum(a)jeb.no> wrote: Hi John, Since you emailed the foundation list, I may as well reply on topic, and about my favourite topic ... Wikisource collects newspaper articles... English Wikisource has a significant collection: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Newspapers One of our best quality articles was featured earlier this year: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/The_Late_Mr._Charles_Babbage,_F.R.S. Here is another article which is even higher quality, using our proofreading system. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fatal_fall_of_Wright_airship http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:NYT_-_Fatal_fall_of_Wright_airship.… http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:NYT_-_Fatal_fall_of_Wright_airship_-_tr… I *think* I have found a newspaper article over on Norwegian Wikisource: http://no.wikisource.org/wiki/Artikkel_om_J._E._Sars_i_Verdens_Gang_34,_1880 It would be good if you encouraged Norwegian Wikipedians to archive any public domain newspaper articles onto Wikisource so that the Wikipedia readers can see the source as well. The company providing free access might not like wider dissemination, however you could promote it by telling the company that their website will be cited as a source. We usually record this on the talk page: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Talk:The_New_York_Times/Mark_Twain You could also discuss with the newspaper archive company the opportunity of Wikimedians performing transcription for them, cleaning up their OCR. Norwegian Wikisource doesnt yet have the proofreading system set up, but that can be remedied quickly. Here are the statistics of adoption rates of this technology for the languages which have installed it: http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage_Statistics -- John V (jayvdb)