[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.

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