[Wikipedia-l] 1911 britannica online

[Bryan Derksen]

At 04:40 PM 3/14/02 +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
>Whilst this is very good news, on my limited sampling
>it's not something I'd be sucking into the Wikipedia
>using a conversion script.
>
>The first article I examined was one about W.G. Grace
>(19th century English cricketer who revolutionised the
>game).  Only the first paragraph of what appears to be
>a much longer article is there, and it is laden with
>typos - some probably from the scanning process, others
>from the original.

It looks like the rest of the article on W.G. Grace is at the beginning of 
the next page; http://97.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GR/GRACES_THE.htm

I noticed something similar with the mount circeo article which I pasted 
across, too; they did a very poor job of chopping the source text up, but I 
think it's all here.

>Still, it's an outstanding resource and I look forward to
>incorporating a lot of material from it.

Me too. It's just a little more labor-intensive than simple copy-paste or 
scripting can manage. :)

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