On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 kband(a)www.llamacom.com wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:20:41
kband(a)www.llamacom.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Someone published the 1911 britannica online:
> > >
> > >
http://1911encyclopedia.org/
> > >
> > 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