[Foundation-l] Re: Proposal for Wiki Project

[Anthere]

Magosányi Árpád a écrit:
> A levelezőm azt hiszi, hogy Robert Scott Horning a következőeket írta:
> 
>>Clay tablets could provide that sort of stability, especially if you 
>>make them ceramic instead, and don't suffer from being super valuable 
>>like gold for other things.  The #1 problem is that they are more prone 
>>to environmental damage and you can't put the detail in so finely as you 
>>could with gold (i.e. archiving large quantities of information are 
>>pretty much out).
> 
> 
> I would think that technology of ceramics is advanced enough now that
> enironmental damage is less concern than with gold. 
> I would also venture to say that creating such ceramics tables needs
> much more physical world resources than creating wikipages.
> However is seems possible that companies doing ceramics technology
> would venture to offer some unnoticeable fraction of their production
> resources for the wast marketing possibilities of being the one
> to archive Wikipedia forever.
> 
> It would be useful to estimate the quantity of information needed
> to make live easier after a catastrophy. If it is low enough (I guess
> it is), we might consider to conserve this set as tables readily useable
> for print. This way it could reach a much wider population than if
> it would be written in microfilm size.

I like this idea of preserving basic information in case of a catastrophe.
Actually, someone thought about the content on the french wikipedia, but 
for now, not much work have been given on it.


http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ASavoirfaire