[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

[John Vandenberg]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> On 09/15/11 8:50 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
>> Wikisource, for example, needs money to scan books. Wiktionary needs
>> also. Even Wikipedia benefits from the projects in which money has
>> given for writing articles (last example: WM Canada program for
>> writing articles in medicine). But, it's easier to accept those
>> things, than to accept that Wikinews needs at least one person to care
>> about things when no one else is able to care.
>
> I don't know about that.  Wikisource already has more scanned books
> available than it can handle, even if we just limit ourselves to those
> where the public domain status is absolutely indisputable.  A relatively
> small numbers should still be scanned for the sake of
> comprehensiveness.  The big challenge is in how to make this useful to a
> larger audience.

It is true that we have more English scanned books than we could
transcribe in a hundred years, but there are many languages which have
very few scanned books available online, and there are some important
English works which are not available as scans yet.

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John Vandenberg