[Foundation-l] Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica on Wikimedia

Wed Nov 9 03:07:00 UTC 2005

Now just implement a captcha for account creation and anonymous editing
which requires the user to convert a sentence or two to text.

J/K, it probably wouldn't work, but it would be neat...

On 11/8/05, Brian <brian0918 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For those who don't know, the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is a famous
> public domain encyclopedia, advertised as the "sum of all human
> knowledge" in 1911.
>
> I recently (today) acquired a DVD containing scans of every page of the
> 1911 Britannica, along with index files for it all, organized by letter
> and page number. I've already talked with avar, TimStarling, and brion
> on IRC, and TimStarling specifically asked me to tell you all that he is
> "confident that the server requirements will be minimal." They would set
> up a domain name, generate some web pages automatically using the index
> files, and host the entire set of 29,700 files totaling about 4 GB.
>
> One more thing, these are black and white TIFs, and there is discussion
> about whether they should be mass converted to PNGs to be easily viewable.
>
> brian0918 at gmail.com