Academic journals, thousands of them. If free access to all knowledge is our goal, freeing the journals is a major step towards there. I don't know what Open access or Wikiversity might impact the process of knowledge generation in the future, but I know the academy was/is the most important part in the process. Though I wonder if a million dollars is enough :P
Another thing I have in mind, albeit maybe off-topic, is the digitization public domain works. Not only text (which is what Project Gutenberg is doing), but books, documents, photos, paintings, pictures, recordings etc. Forget about copyrighted stuff, there are a lot of goodies without copyright but I can't access them simply because I am not sitting next to them.
--Lorenzarius
On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be purchased and freed.
Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you like to see purchased and released under a free license?
Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific, be general, brainstorm, have fun with it.
I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own.
--Jimbo _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l