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

[Ray Saintonge]

[[User:Unforgettableid]] wrote:

>On 9/22/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 21/09/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>On 9/21/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>Who is going to do the physical scanning?
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>>Some dedicated fools, I expect.
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>A while back I heard how Amazon.com scans entire books.
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>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.
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>2. Some books are scanned in India. It is cheap to hire manual workers
>there, so they hire people to run the scanners.
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>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.
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We would still need the hardware.  Then there's the delicate question of 
who decides exactly what this employee would scan.

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