On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:32 AM, John Vandenberg<jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Samuel Klein<meta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Also... >> *A wiki for book metadata, with an entry for every published work, >> statistics about its use and siblings, and discussion about its >> usefulness as a citation (a collaboration with OpenLibrary, merging >> WikiCite ideas) > > Why not just do this in the Wikisource project? > > 99% percent of "every published work" are free/libre. Only the last > 70 years worth of texts are restricted by copyright, so it doesnt make > sense to build a different project for those works. <snip>
Not so. More printed works have been published in the last 70 years than the whole of human history preceding them. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
