--- "limholt(a)excite.com" <limholt(a)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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