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

[David Gerard]

On 24/09/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote:

> > This is a Wikisource function, but that dosn't make it easier.  I have
> > most of the first 20 years of McClure's Magazine.  It was a monthly that
> > became famous for muckraking journalism, and exposing the behaviour of
> > big companies and government administration in the pre WWI era.  1,200
> > pages per year for 20 years gives 24,000 pages, and is a daunting task.
> > Weeklies and dailies don't make things any easier.

> While it would certainly be nice to have it all scanned, I don't think
> it's necessary.  We already cite lots of sources that aren't available
> on the internet---recently published books, journal articles, etc.---so
> I don't see why it would be a bigger problem that old news articles are
> only available in archives, on microfilm, or via digital subscription.
> Ain't nothin' wrong with citing sources that require a visit to a
> library to access.


Yeah. It'd just be *nice* to have them scanned if they're PD. (Or
privately scanned if they're not.)


- d.