Forgive me if this has been discussed umpteen times... has any
consideration been given to (periodically) submitting some kind of
print-like version of Wikipedia to Project Gutenberg?
What brought this to mind was running across Jimbo's statement that
"I'd like to distribute cheaply-printed paperback copies of Wikipedia
to every school in every country in Africa, in English or French as the
local circumstances dictate," and thinking how concordant that was with
Michael Hart's visions for Project Gutenberg.
BTW, I don't know all the ins and outs but, for the record, although PG
has traditionally (in IMHO very, very, VERY wisely) concentrated on
"plain vanilla ASCII" format, they do ''not'' limit themselves
to that
format. So other formats would be negotiable. It would of course be
sensible to consult with PG directly on this. I believe they have the
Distributed Proofreaders working on the 11th edition of the Britannica,
BTW. There might be some issues about reconciling the GFDL with the
Project Gutenberg "Fine Print" notice, which they are very, very, VERY
picky about. However, PG distributes a few copyrighted items, so there
must be a way to work such things out.
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