[Foundation-l] Re: Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica onWikimedia

[Brian]

Each volume is about 150-200MB. I don't see too many people lining up to 
download that much just to get one specific illustration they want to 
add to a Wikipedia article. We're trying to make the encyclopedia not 
only freely available, but easily accessible. Bittorrent or any such 
middle-man is just another easily-avoidable layer of difficulty for the 
end-user.


Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>On 11/9/05, Poe, Marshall <MPoe at theatlantic.com> wrote:
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>>--- Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
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>>>The only question in my mind is the domain: should this be under
>>>eb1911.wikipedia.org <http://eb1911.wikipedia.org>? We could make it
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>>visually distinct, to avoid
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>>>confusion with Wikipedia itself. Or would eb1911.wikimedia.org<http://eb1911.wikimedia.org>be
>>>better? Or eb1911.wikisource.org <http://eb1911.wikisource.org>?
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>>It absolutely should *not* be on a Wikipedia subdomain. Wikisource is
>>the place for this.
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>>-- mav
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>>This is exactly right. An encyclopedia from 1911 is a primary source of
>>historical interest; it's data, not metadata. If it goes anywhere, it's
>>Wikisource.
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>>--Marshall Poe
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> Wikisource is the place for the text, maybe. For the images themselves I
>don't see the disadvantage of just using bittorrent, maybe by volume.
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