[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

Sun Oct 15 17:08:23 UTC 2006

Academic journals, thousands of them. If free access to all knowledge
is our goal, freeing the journals is a major step towards there. I
don't know what Open access or Wikiversity might impact the process of
knowledge generation in the future, but I know the academy was/is the
most important part in the process. Though I wonder if a million
dollars is enough :P

Another thing I have in mind, albeit maybe off-topic, is the
digitization public domain works. Not only text (which is what Project
Gutenberg is doing), but books, documents, photos, paintings,
pictures, recordings etc. Forget about copyrighted stuff, there are a
lot of goodies without copyright but I can't access them simply
because I am not sitting next to them.

--Lorenzarius

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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