[WikiEN-l] What is happening to the community
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Fri Mar 7 20:46:18 UTC 2008
Ray Saintonge wrote:
> geni wrote:
>
>> On 06/03/2008, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > *"The British Library is known to hold over 150 million items."
>>>
>>> I don't think we want an article on every single arrowhead, pottery
>>> fragment or piece of flint.
>>>
>> Those are now held by the British museum. 150 million is books and
>> book like items (pamphlets and maps for example)
>>
> The back rooms of museums in general are one of the world's great
> underutilized resources. Recently the Royal Ontario Museum managed to
> find a skeleton of a T-Rex that it forgot it had. Ideally we should
> have holographic images of every museum artifact in the world.
Sorry, my error. It wasn't a T-rex but on of the huge plant eating
dinosaurs.
Ec
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