[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

Mon Oct 16 20:40:15 UTC 2006

On 15/10/06, 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.

A general worldwide gazeteer. SFAIK, this is a current gap in the
various collections of free reference material...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk