On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Joan Goma wrote:
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> 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 license this
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
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> 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
> means. The re
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 Wikiped
>From: Thomas Dalton
>
> On 14 March 2012 09:40, Joan Goma wrote:
> > Unfortunatelly they still not realize that if published using a free
> > licence compatible with Wikipedeia their income would be even 15 times
> > larger.
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> Would it? Can you explain how that business model would work? Ther
On 14 March 2012 12:50, Michael Peel 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 this:
> http://www.labnol
On 14 March 2012 09:40, Joan Goma 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 business model would work? There
are ways of making money by produc
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 14/03/12 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 getti
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 wrote:
> 2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
> rep
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:00, Samuel Klein wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
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>> No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
>> being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I
>> am confusing things.
Samuel Klein, 14/03/2012 03:00:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter 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 E
> 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
On 03/13/12 3:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:54:48 +, Thomas Dalton
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 b
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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 sure I rem
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 encyclopedi
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter 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 biggest seller of
2012/3/14 Samuel Klein :
> "Today our digital database is much larger than what we can fit in the
> print set.
And yet the article "Gesenius, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhlem" has 745
words in the 1911 print edition and 175 in the current online edition.
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:54:48 +, Thomas Dalton
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 encyclopaedias still
being pr
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 wrote:
> 2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
> replace my old set!) Future ver
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-nytimes&seid=auto
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012
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