> Probably, they will claim some kind of copyrights
over the
> digitalisation of the 1911 Encyclopedia.
Well, how could they tell where we got it? We could have typed the stuff in
by hand, after all...
More seriously: even if the quality of the scanned
text will be improved,
I do hope that nobody will whip together a script to suck the
1911 contents
into Wikipedia wholesale.
*If* there's going to be a script, I suggest the following:
- Only create entrys that are empty on the wiki; keep the others for manual
"prescan" (on existing topics, we might not need the old text at all)
- Add some text (in red?) as first and last line of the text, stating where
it is from, handle with care etc.
- Let the script create a list of these articles as [[links]], then add that
list as "wikipedia:1911 conversion" (or something) so we can mark off the
entries that were proofread by real living humans.
ALternatively, we could create a read-only "1911" namespace, dump it all
there and do the conversion by hand.
Magnus