On 12/22/05, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/12/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 12/22/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
You'd have to spend a whole lot of money to get human editors to pick the "useful articles". It might pay off in the really long term, but it'd require a huge investment. And due to the GFDL some other company could just come along and take the results of that huge investment and drive you out of business anyway. I'm not at all surprised no one is doing it.
They certainly didn't for de:. Oh, wait ...
- d.
You're referring to the producers of the DVD, I assume. I don't know a whole lot about that project but I assumed they used some automated method to select articles for inclusion (there was a mention of only using articles which were last edited by a certain selection of logged in users), not that they had someone go through each one by hand.
First two versions were hand-processed, last version was automated.
From your description it sounds like the work was done by Wikipedia
volunteers, and not the company that produced the DVD. So we've gotten pretty far off the topic of "Wikipedia mirrors such as Answers.com", but still very interesting information. I can't speak for all of en:, but I'm pretty jealous of those who can understand German.
Anthony