[Foundation-l] Re: Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica onWikimedia

Wed Nov 9 14:47:18 UTC 2005

On 11/9/05, Poe, Marshall <MPoe at theatlantic.com> wrote:
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>
> --- Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > ...
> > The only question in my mind is the domain: should this be under
> > eb1911.wikipedia.org <http://eb1911.wikipedia.org>? We could make it
> visually distinct, to avoid
> > confusion with Wikipedia itself. Or would eb1911.wikimedia.org<http://eb1911.wikimedia.org>be
> > better? Or eb1911.wikisource.org <http://eb1911.wikisource.org>?
>
> It absolutely should *not* be on a Wikipedia subdomain. Wikisource is
> the place for this.
>
> -- mav
>
> This is exactly right. An encyclopedia from 1911 is a primary source of
> historical interest; it's data, not metadata. If it goes anywhere, it's
> Wikisource.
>
> --Marshall Poe

 Wikisource is the place for the text, maybe. For the images themselves I
don't see the disadvantage of just using bittorrent, maybe by volume.