Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Public Domain Content

[Bryce Harrington]

Actually, I think PG _contains_ a full encyclopedia...

I seem to recall something about an early (copyright-expired) version of
Britannica was in PG (although it had to go by a different name due to
trademark restriction.)  Is this so?  If so, maybe that portion of it
would be useful, although I have to imagine large chunks of it would be
pretty darn out of date.  ;-) But I suppose the more "bread and butter"
topics (science, biographies, history, etc.) probably have much that is
still relevant.  If those also happened to cover some of the "unsexy"
topics, that'd sure be a help.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Project Gutenberg has done a heroic job of making available an astounding
> amount of public domain content.  My hat is off to them.  We have considered
> hosting some of their stuff at Nupedia, and we still might...
> 
> HOWEVER, this is a good place to point out that none of their stuff
> (well, almost none, anyway) belongs in an _encyclopedia_ proper.  It
> probably can and should be hosted or at least linked, whenever it is
> discussed within the encyclopedia.