[Wikipedia-l] what to do with the money?

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Dec 26 20:49:59 UTC 2003


I just put in a preliminary bid on a partial set (missing 2 volumes) at 
eBay 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3575193499&category=29353&rd=1
There's an unspecified reserve on this.

Ec

Fred Bauder wrote:

>Cheapest set I can find is
>
>http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=214483227
>
>There are odd volumes availble, such as this 1885 Volume 1
>
>http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=224154342
>
>Fred
>
>>From: Imran Ghory <imran at bits.bris.ac.uk>
>>
>>On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>
>>>Imran Ghory wrote:
>>>
>>>>Something else we could do is use the money to obtain public domain books
>>>>(e.g. biographical encyclopedias) that can be scanned/ocred and used for
>>>>creating basic articles in areas which wikipedia currently lacks coverage.
>>>>
>>>What would something like that cost, anyway?  My guess is that if
>>>someone wanted to do this, the cost would be close to zero anyway, am
>>>I wrong?
>>>
>>The cost is primarily in buying the books, we could work with Project
>>Gutenberg to get them scanned (they have several high-speed
>>destructive scanners - you just remove the covering and spine of the book
>>and put the pages into a feeder system), ocred and proofread.
>>
What a terrible way to mistreet a book!!!

>>If we wanted to get something major like the full 1st edition of the
>>"Dictionary of National Biography" (20 volumes) we'd be lucky to find it
>>for under a couple of hundred dollars. Although if we're just looking for
>>any works that we could use we might be get lucky just by looking in
>>second-hand bookstores. There are many books such as Joseph
>>Thomas' "Universal pronouncing dictionary of biography and
>>mythology" which have articles which we could import into Wikipedia with
>>minimal changes to form useful stubs.
>>





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