That's great. It might be valuable to share notes on collaborations between old-school encyclopedic media groups and Wikipedians in various countries. I see a few classes of collabs possible
* between traditional editing teams and Wikipedians. These teams, including those being laid off by brockhaus, have tremendous history/experience/tradecraft in how to organize workflows, track sources, follow updates year by year to a topic, and find new experts to provide overviews and novel writing. Generally these experts are not paid much - IME that is not the core expense of maintaining even traditional encyclos. Work together to find ways to help WP benefit from these practices -- and find a new way for lifelong encyclopedists to continue contributing to world knowledge even as their jobs change * between chief editors and Wikipedian masses. Reassess the merit of "the value of an encyclopedia is what it leaves out, not what it puts in". what does that mean now for multimedia encyclos with multi-DVD sets? What did it ever mean for mega-encyclos? How can we provide high-quality top-level overviews while continuing to expand the quantity & quality of detail? How to coordinate what are effectively focused subject-specific encyclos and WP as a whole? how important are the value judgements being made by each group producing a limited edition for DVD / iPod / OLPC / print? what audiences don't find their needs met yet? * between content archivists and Wikimedia : freeing archives for public use. There are a few degrees to this : access/reuse of indexes, access/reuse of summaries//data templates//thumbnails, access/reuse of full text & multimedia. This works in two ways -- WM can be a world leader in providing accurate and high-visibility attribution of its sources [something the projects currently are poor at - contribute text or media to WM and you get an almost negligible mention]. SJ On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schind...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Do we know people at Arvato? SJ > > Yes (more precisely: at Wissen Media and at InmediaOne] ) > > Mathias > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
