Mark Williamson (node.ue@gmail.com) [050219 09:55]:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:49:19 +0100, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Ray Saintonge schrieb:
I've long felt that the 1911EB should be carried in its entirety on Wikisource, as should the 1921 12th edition. (The 12th was just a repeat of the 11th edition with 3 supplementary volumes, which probably explains why it is so seldom mentioned.) That would be an enormous task.
Maybe we can get a "real" copy of the 1921 edition to WikiMania, and have scanners/digital cameras manned with volunteers. Once we have everything as images, we can OCR/type/proofread online in a distributed fashion. We're kinda good at that :-)
Alternatively, we could store it as images online. That would take a lot of bandwidth, but... it would preserve the original much much better.
An A4 page at 300dpi is 8.7 MB; at 600dpi it's 34.8 MB. How many pages are there? Time to buy a 1000-stack of DVD-Rs ;-)
- d.