From: Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
The idea is that if they believe (or their marketing studies say) there is
a market for an encyclopedia reviewed by professionals I think that this is
not incompatible with free license.
If it were published under a free
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:54:48 +, Thomas Dalton
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I thought they had already stopped... I'm
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Subject: [Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop
I think what you might be remembering is that they used to sell them via a
sales force who went door to door. They announced a few years back that
they were stopping that.
And, indeed, it was the reliance on the sales force that killed off
Britannica in the late-80s/early-90s when Encarta
Samuel Klein, 14/03/2012 03:00:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanterpute...@mccme.ru wrote:
No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I
am confusing things.
There's
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:00, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless
Interesting news indeed.
Lead's one to wonder when WMF will launch it's first printed
encyclopaedia. Perhaps a 2013 Citation Needed edition is in the works?
Russavia
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to
On 14/03/12 13:17, Milos Rancic wrote:
There is ~20 volumes Serbian Encyclopedia in progress, likely to be
finished around 2050. I have no idea what would be the purpose of that
Milos, please. It will likely be finished around 2025.
paper encyclopedia at that time, but I know that it is
On 14 Mar 2012, at 12:21, Russavia wrote:
Interesting news indeed.
Lead's one to wonder when WMF will launch it's first printed
encyclopaedia. Perhaps a 2013 Citation Needed edition is in the works?
Something like this:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/wikipedia-printed-book/9136/
?
(And
On 14 March 2012 12:50, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
On 14 Mar 2012, at 12:21, Russavia wrote:
Interesting news indeed.
Lead's one to wonder when WMF will launch it's first printed
encyclopaedia. Perhaps a 2013 Citation Needed edition is in the works?
Something like
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
On 14 March 2012 09:40, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunatelly they still not realize that if published using a free
licence compatible with Wikipedeia their income would be even 15 times
larger.
Would it? Can you explain how that
On 03/14/12 2:29 PM, Joan Goma wrote:
Catalan Wikipedia has about 10 times more pageviews than them. If they use
a free license and use a wiki then their professionals can copy our best
articles and review them and we can copy their content. 7,8% of their
page-views go there from Catalan
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
I don't think that copying articles is the way to go. If the two projects
have separate articles on the same subjects that's still a very good thing.
They can still maintain their professional standards, whatever that
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?smid=tw-nytimesseid=auto
I thought they had already stopped... I'm sure I remember an
announcement like this a year or two ago... does anyone know what it
is I'm remembering?
On 13 March 2012 22:49, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
replace my old
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:54:48 +, Thomas Dalton
thomas.dal...@gmail.com
wrote:
I thought they had already stopped... I'm sure I remember an
announcement like this a year or two ago... does anyone know what it
is I'm remembering?
No, I think there were only like three big universal
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I
am confusing things.
There's also World Book in English, the
On 14/03/12 11:22, phoebe ayers wrote:
I've been asked to write a short editorial about this development from
a Wikipedian's perspective and am curious about (and would love to
include) other Wikimedian experiences -- did you use print
encyclopedias as a kid? Was a love of print encyclopedias
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