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

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On 9/22/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> 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?
>
>
> Some dedicated fools, I expect.
>

A while back I heard how Amazon.com scans entire books.

1. Some books are scanned in North America using, IIRC (foggy memory),
a homemade page-turning apparatus that somehow works together with a
scanner. It is fully automatic.

2. Some books are scanned in India. It is cheap to hire manual workers
there, so they hire people to run the scanners.

It seems that most of the Wikimedia Foundation's budget goes towards
buying hardware, but I wonder if it'd be practical for us to hire
people to do either of these things.

Cheers,
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