[WikiEN-l] Wikipeda 1.0 Paper Plus

Tue Aug 19 19:05:24 UTC 2003

--- "limholt at excite.com" <limholt at excite.com> wrote:
> 
> One of the goals generally included in the Wiki 1.0
> discussion is the creation of a paper Wikipedia.
> This sems to have an assumption that lot's of
> material gets dropped or summarized. I agree with
> the necessity of that, since paper must be more
> limited that a hard drive file to be practical. But
> what about those areas where we have lots more info
> than a general encyclopedia?
>
Wikipedia isn't exceptionally big as far as
encyclopedias go.
> 
> This is a thought about some of the leftover
> material. I don't mean to imply a well thought out
> procedure, but a procedure outline sems the most
> direct way t explain this idea. So, here comes a
> three step procedure.
> 
> 1. Complete a list of possible additional paper
> books to go with the paper Wikipedia 1.0. Examples
> would be "The Encyclopedia of Rock", "The Enc. of
> Science Fiction, with Character Ibdex", "Star Trek
> Encyclopedia", "Enc. of American Biography", etc.,
> etc. 
>
Encyclopedia of lists, wikipedia would be great for.
> 
> 2. When reviewing Wiki articles to include in the
> paper 1.0, see if a copy goes in any other stacks.
> For articles droped, put them in their specialized
> stack.
> 
I'm not exactly sure what your review process is.
Could you explain it in more depth?
>
> 3. When finished, examine the other stacks to see
> which have publishable volume and content. Then see
> if a publisher is interested.
> 
Or we could self-publish from preorder money if no
publisher is available.
>
> Just a thought....
> 
> Thanks,  Lou Imholt (LouI at Wiki)

LDan

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