[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia a News Portal (among other things)?

[David Alexander Russell]

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David Gerard wrote:
> On 21/09/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/21/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> It'll come, it'll come. Dumping everything onto disk scans in the
>>> first instance. Just under two years doubling time. You won't be
>>> *able* to buy a disk smaller than a petabyte in twenty years.
> 
>> Who is going to do the physical scanning?
> 
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> Some dedicated fools, I expect.
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>> Another issues is OS maps over 50 years old. All public domain but a
>> pain to scan. It would be nice if the UK branch of wikimedia could do
>> something but I doubt we could get hold of the equipment.
> 
> 
> There *must* be efforts to this end. If not, it'd be an ideal project
> for Wikimedia UK to look at when it's operational.
> 
> [cc to wmuk-l]
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> 
> - d.

Here's an idea. I presume the main problem with scanning them is their
size (ie they won't fit on an ordinary scanner). Why not just scan them
in sections and then use 'photo stitching' software (the kind that's
designed to turn a collection of photos into a panorama) to turn the
scanned sections into a single image?

Cynical

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