[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

[Platonides]

"ScottL" wrote:
> Someone may have suggested this below in the thread, I have only read
about half of it.
No, it wasn't

>But, I thought I would throw it in anyway.
Good, be bold :-)

>According  to our article on the topic Encyclopædia Britannica started 
>losing sales
>and value in the company around 1990 and then sold for 135 million in
>1996.  All print encyclopedias seem to be doing less well than in the
>last for obvious reasons.  I think this might make them open to the
>ideas of selling the copyrights (not the companies) to earlier versions.
>  The 1911 Britannica has been pretty useful to the project I suspect
that older editions of a number of print encyclopedias might also be useful.
>
>SKL

I'd add that most languages (even big ones) don't have a free encyclopedia 
like it,
so having one would certainly help.