Re: [Foundation-l] All human knowledge, by Jimmy Wales (?)

2011-09-17 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/16/11 12:38 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, emijrpemi...@gmail.com wrote: I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is the sum of all human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic. Not ALL, ALL, ALL human knowledge. MySpace discarded. When you

Re: [Foundation-l] All human knowledge, by Jimmy Wales (?)

2011-09-16 Thread KIZU Naoko
I'm afraid it sounds a bit OT, but I'm serious, really. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvand...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, Today I read on a WMDE driven website: »Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der das gesamte Wissen der Menschheit jedem frei zugänglich ist. Das ist

Re: [Foundation-l] All human knowledge, by Jimmy Wales (?)

2011-09-16 Thread David Richfield
And I think that there is a huge difference between the sum of all... and all By the way, the traditional encyclopedias described themselves by the sum of all... Can you explain this perceived difference? Is the whole more than the sum of its parts, so that the German claim is too

Re: [Foundation-l] All human knowledge, by Jimmy Wales (?)

2011-09-16 Thread Robert Rohde
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is the sum of all human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic. Not ALL, ALL, ALL human knowledge. MySpace discarded. When you look back to when that quote was issued (at

Re: [Foundation-l] All human knowledge, by Jimmy Wales (?)

2011-09-16 Thread emijrp
Hi; Perhaps, you may want to help me compiling information about this topic and improving the estimate.[1] There is a false sensation about Wikipedia being almost complete. In the other hand, projects like WikiSource are in their infance, for example, Internet Archive hosts about 3 million