[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

Sun Oct 15 16:03:35 UTC 2006

Hoi,
ONE HUNDRED MILLION US.. Hmm, that is not even one US$ per person. We want
to provide information to all people of the world in their own language ...
To do that we need much more .. Ok I confess, I dream big.

What needs doing:

   - Much information needs to be preserved. Much data that is really
   precious needs digitizing. So that we will nor suffer another disaster like
   the burning of the library of Alexandria.
   - Great content is not available in so many languages with multi
   million speakers.
   - We do not have an understanding of so many other cultures; making
   essential information available would help to bridge the obvious gaps in the
   mutual understanding
   - Many schools suffer from expensive and often substandard teaching
   materials. Bringing the best that money can buy into Free resources would
   help create a generation that grew up with Free content, technology and the
   associated paradigms.
   - Our infra structure is really cheap. It is outrageously successfull
   in what it does but as more people start to depend on it and as more
   functionality / data gets connected, it becomes more fragile. It would be
   good to remain as cost effective but we do need more giants like Brion, Tim,
   Mark, Domas ..

There are many other things that I would like to spend serious money on. Oh
and Jimmy, why not 100.000.000 Euro or Pound .. We are an international
organisation right :)

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
>
> I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you
> would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of
> generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be
> purchased and freed.
>
> Dream big.  Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase
> copyrights to be made available under a free license.  What would you
> like to see purchased and released under a free license?
>
> Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific,
> be general, brainstorm, have fun with it.
>
> I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a
> position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what
> we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would
> expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own.
>
> --Jimbo
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