[Foundation-l] Re: Proposal for Wiki Project

[Fred Bauder]

See [[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]

Fred

> From: Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 03:10:10 +0100
> To: foundation-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Re: Proposal for Wiki Project
> 
> 
> 
> Magosányi Árpád a écrit:
>> A levelezo›m azt hiszi, hogy Robert Scott Horning a következo›eket 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l