I'm struggling to see *why* people are arguing over whose cultural institution is larger/more important than the other's.
Surely the point, as Yaroslav suggests, is to see how the WMF might be able to get involved ? Alex 2012/1/7 Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> > 2012/1/7 geni <geni...@gmail.com>: > >> We can't say we care about all human knowledge when we give priority to > >> cases depending on our birthplace. > > > > Yes and I'm British. The reality is that museums and libraries close > > all the time for various reasons. There isn't much we can do about it. > > > > The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina had 1.5 > > million books when it was largely destroyed in 1992. The British > > Library has just under 14 million books and 150 million documents > > total. The library of congress is much the same. So as I said slightly > > different league, > > That's an awful thing to say, but so specific to representatives of > anglo-saxon culture (sic!). > > Why don't you think of it this way: The National and University > Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina had X million books from Bosnian > authors. How many does the British Library has? I'm guessing much less > than X. > > Strainu > > _______________________________________________ > 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
