Is Wikipedia the largest free content website? i.e. website
consisting primarily of free content.
http://freedomdefined.org/
The only competitors that I can think of are
1. Project Gutenberg, however they have a few free-gratis etexts
sprinkled through their collection.
2. Million Books
John Vandenberg, 08/07/2011 08:26:
1. Project Gutenberg, however they have a few free-gratis etexts
sprinkled through their collection.
2. Million Books Project http://www.ulib.org/
What about the Internet Archive? They certainly have much more free
content than us, if you just count bytes.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
What about the Internet Archive? They certainly have much more free
content than us, if you just count bytes.
The Internet Archive has many subprojects which are non-free content
(wayback machine) and dubious
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 08:26, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
2. Million Books Project http://www.ulib.org/
LOTS of copyrighted and dubious content, by random checking.
g
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Yes, and I'm sure Wikipedia also has lots of copyrighted and dubious
content, as hard as we try...
2011/7/8 Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 08:26, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
2. Million Books Project http://www.ulib.org/
LOTS of copyrighted and dubious
John Vandenberg, 08/07/2011 09:31:
The Internet Archive has many subprojects which are non-free content
(wayback machine) and dubious content (Open source books).
They have 1.5 millions books (texts) only in the 1800-1922 range.
From having looked through Internet Archive's live music collection, I doubt
much, if any of it, would be considered free by our definition. They only
seem to care that the artist was fine with being recorded at the show, and
there's certainly no release to do anything you want to do with the
On 8 July 2011 09:20, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, and I'm sure Wikipedia also has lots of copyrighted and dubious
content, as hard as we try...
We're reaching the stage of arguing category membership. This suggests
stepping back:
John, what do you anticipate as the useful
Well, I just think any repository that lets some non-free works slip through
the cracks by accident, can't suddenly be disqualified unless we're ready to
disqualify Wikipedia too. So what category do we fit into that they do not?
2011/7/8 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
On 8 July 2011 09:20, M.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:38 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 July 2011 09:20, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, and I'm sure Wikipedia also has lots of copyrighted and dubious
content, as hard as we try...
We're reaching the stage of arguing category membership. This
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:16 PM, M. Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I just think any repository that lets some non-free works slip through
the cracks by accident, can't suddenly be disqualified unless we're ready to
disqualify Wikipedia too. So what category do we fit into that they do
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 13:04, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
The Million Book Project is a bit better, but they often don't include
sufficient metadata and I've seen many works with a year of
publication that is post 1950 yet pre-1923 is used as the public
domain justification.
Or
Following the recent discussions here and on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_ban_for_Poetlister
SJ
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On 8 July 2011 07:26, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Is Wikipedia the largest free content website? i.e. website
consisting primarily of free content.
http://freedomdefined.org/
The only competitors that I can think of are
1. Project Gutenberg, however they have a few free-gratis
Right. NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned
this morning. Is it 'a website'?
The Internet Archive and many others include roughly 2 million PD
books, just under 1 billion pages of text.
Flickr Commons has many times the # of free content photos of WM Commons.
What sets
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On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Right. NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned
this morning. Is it 'a website'?
Do you have a cite for that? Could probably be added to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
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It's with great pleasure that I announce a longtime
Awesome! Congrats HaeB!
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HaeB,
Congratulations!!! You've done superb work with the signpost and we'll
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Good news for both Tilman and WMF!
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Michael Snow, Sage Ross, HaeB... I think the WMF is conspiring against
the Signpost :-P
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Welcome HaeB! Great to have you on-board. :-) I've been waiting for
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On 7/8/2011 11:15 AM, Nathan wrote:
Michael Snow, Sage Ross, HaeB... I think the WMF is conspiring against
the Signpost :-P
You could include Phoebe too, for that matter. I'm always impressed with
how much has been accomplished with the Signpost that I could never have
envisioned originally,
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Dominic - this is from the Archivist's speech today. Is there a handy cite?
S
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Right. NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned
this morning. Is it 'a
On 07/08/2011 07:25 PM, Jay Walsh wrote:
It's with great pleasure that I announce a longtime Wikipedian and
accomplished Wikimedia project supporter, Tilman Bayer (User:HaeB) has
agreed to join the Wikimedia Foundation in support of our movement
communications activities.
Great news! :)
On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/7/7 Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de
On de.wikisource.org they scan every page of the original text, upload
the scan on Commons and show the scan on the right part of every page as
an image. It is even obligatory
On 7/8/11 4:40 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Dominic - this is from the Archivist's speech today. Is there a handy cite?
S
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:38 PM, genigeni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote:
Right. NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks
mcdev...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 July 2011 16:47, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote:
Right. NARA has 5 billion pages of PD content online, as I learned
this morning. Is it 'a website'?
Do you have a cite for that? Could probably be
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