Mark Williamson (node.ue(a)gmail.com) [050219 09:55]:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:49:19 +0100, Magnus Manske
<magnus.manske(a)web.de> wrote:
> Ray Saintonge schrieb:
> > I've long felt that the 1911EB should be
carried in its entirety on
> > Wikisource, as should the 1921 12th edition. (The 12th was just a
> > repeat of the 11th edition with 3 supplementary volumes, which probably
> > explains why it is so seldom mentioned.) That would be an enormous
> > task.
> Maybe we can get a "real" copy of the
1921 edition to WikiMania, and
> have scanners/digital cameras manned with volunteers. Once we have
> everything as images, we can OCR/type/proofread online in a distributed
> fashion. We're kinda good at that :-)
Alternatively, we could store it as images online.
That would take a
lot of bandwidth, but... it would preserve the original much much
better.
An A4 page at 300dpi is 8.7 MB; at 600dpi it's 34.8 MB. How many pages are
there? Time to buy a 1000-stack of DVD-Rs ;-)
- d.