[Foundation-l] Universal Library

[Yann Forget]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Yann Forget wrote:
> 
>> I started a proposal on the Strategy Wiki:
>> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Building_a_database_of_all_books_ever_published
>>
>> IMO this should be a join project between Openlibrary and Wikimedia.
> 
> Again, I don't understand why.  What exactly is missing in 
> OpenLibrary?  Why does it need to be a new, joint project?
> 
> The page says "There is currently no database of all books ever 
> published freely available."  But OpenLibrary is a project already 
> working towards exactly that goal.  It's not done yet, and its 
> methods are not yet fully developed.  But neither would your new 
> "joint" project be, for a very long time.
> 
> Wikipedia is also far from complete, far from containing "the sum 
> of all human knowledge".  But that doesn't create a need to start 
> entirely new encyclopedia projects.  It only means more 
> contributors are needed in the existing Wikipedia.

You just give again the same arguments, to which I have answered.
Did you read my answer?

Regards,

Yann
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