On 12/22/05, David Gerard
<fun(a)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