Delphine Ménard (notafishz(a)gmail.com) [050526 03:10]:
On 5/25/05, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> > I was happy I am in Thailand in this
respect, as in the Netherlands I
> > still have over a hundred books (mostly 2nd ww) so I only had to list
> > about 20. We already had the first usefull exchanges in people asking
> > eachother to look things up. Basically most of us wrote down everything,
> > from specific dictionaries and encyclopedias through travelguides to
> > very specific books. We could even have something on Meta ..... the
> > wikilibrary? the wikisearch?
> To scale well, this would be have to searchable
by book, wouldn't it?
> (Very tedious to look through, say, 50 Wikipedians' user pages just to
> see if they have this particular book.) This would be very useful if
> it could work..
Yes but then we could also have a book-club-type VP,
where I' could go
and say..."I am stuck on this article, does anyone have a book that
says anything about notafishes and their natural habitat?". It could
even be cross projects and cross languages. I really like this idea.
After a while, I am sure we'd know who has what and if not, who can
tell us who has what.
I believe there were various people talking about projects to list and
standardise references - such that if a given book were used as a
reference, you could look it up in that list for more detail. This would
hook very nicely into that.
- d.