Interesting what you write, Bogdan. The links you came up with from the Google timeline are also nice. But there is still a problem here.
I did a search for my own name. And compared the hits with what I know.... It depends a lot to *which* newspapers get archived.
There is probably a strong case for finding other criteria of 'prominence' for societies (from the "South" or "developing world") which may still be largely oral societies... forget about being written ... not to speak of being digitised!
Where, for instance, would unrecorded and non-digitised traditional knowledge fit into the Wikipedia? We're having the same problem with patents here in India. Unless something is recorded (and understandable as such to someone in a Western patents office), is it not being considered as "prior knowledge". So the Indian solution is to translate tonnes of traditional knowledge into English, and digitise it! But obviously, the Wikipedia can't follow similar criteria, for obvious reasons. FN
On 07/01/07, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
Sunday, January 7, 2007, 4:49:35 PM, Frederick wrote:
Maybe you're using the wrong search-term. I tried "Vikalp + film" on Google, and got over 800. Results 1 - 10 of about 806 for Vikalp film. (0.16 seconds)
Looking at the ghits is useless. I think it's better to look for newspaper references:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Films+for+Freedom%22+Vikalp&sa...
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