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

Wed Nov 9 21:35:03 UTC 2005

Lars Aronsson wrote:

>Brian wrote:
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>>I recently (today) acquired a DVD containing scans of every page 
>>of the 1911 Britannica, along with index files for it all, 
>>[...]
>>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.
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>What is suddenly wrong with using Wikimedia Commons and 
>Wikisource?  Why do you need a new domain and server just for this 
>book?  Didn't you see
>http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work
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I think they want this to be on a separate domain because not only is 
1911EB a famous encyclopedia, Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from it, 
and several projects still want its contents. So, they would rather prop 
it up and give it a separate space specifically designed for making 
1911EB's contents easily accessible.