On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 kband@www.llamacom.com wrote:
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:20:41 kband@www.llamacom.com wrote:
Someone published the 1911 britannica online:
All right, now we're talking!
Whilst this is very good news, on my limited sampling it's not something I'd be sucking into the Wikipedia using a conversion script.
The first article I examined was one about W.G. Grace (19th century English cricketer who revolutionised the game). Only the first paragraph of what appears to be a much longer article is there, and it is laden with typos - some probably from the scanning process, others from the original.
It seems that the scanning was just done column-wise and that there were not enough efforts to separate the entries. But it may be useful as a source anyway.
HJH