> > (Oddly enough, I am more likely to read a Wikipedia article > from beginning to end if I'm looking something up on the Kindle, while I'm > reading a book.) >
There's definitely some appetite for [WP-branded and -supported!] reading and research devices tuned for this sort of work: hyperlinked referencing, bookmarking, reading, annotating, and compiling into an overview of one's thoughts while working through an original document [book, article, encyclopedia article]. > I think it would be more interesting to spin off the existing > > "Wikipedia Library" into its own international organization (or home > > it with an existing one), tasked with giving free knowledge > > contributors (including potentially to other free knowledge projects > > like OSM) access to proprietary resources Warmly agreed. Related essential services: curating and organizing proprietary resources, and transmogrifying them into reusable elements [cf. ContentMine/FactMine]. A few narrow areas of this are covered by commercial services, but most are not. Sam. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
