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

Fri Nov 11 01:51:49 UTC 2005

Tim Starling wrote:

>Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>Like Lars, I don't see the point of a separate domain for this.  I agree
>>that Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from it, but it has benefitted
>>from many other works as well.  With the scanned pages on Commons they
>>will still be easily available to the several projects that you have in
>>mind.  Easily editable and Wikified texts will continue to belong on
>>Wikisource.
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>Why are you still talking about a separate domain? That's ancient history. I
>suggested a compromise, why aren't you talking about that?
>
The message that I was responding to was less than 24 hours old.  How 
can that possibly be "ancient"?  If your "compromise" needs commenting, 
I'll do that when I get to it.

Ec