From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:49:59 -0800
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] what to do with the money?
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&categ…
d=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(a)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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