Proposal:Wikipedia Library
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- Achieve continued growth in readership
- Focus on quality content
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Every proposal should be tied to one of the strategic priorities below.
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- Achieve continued growth in readership
- Focus on quality content
- Increase Participation
- Stabilize and improve the infrastructure
- Encourage Innovation
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If not English, in what language is this proposal submitted?: German / Deutsch
Summary
Creation of a full text library of rare books without copyright with free access.
Proposal
Wikipedia should create a library with digitized images of rare books without copyright that might get lost because only few examples remain in circulation. The images (stored as PDFs) should be available for free.
Motivation
Protection and maintenance for cultural artifacts of humanity.
Key questions
- Who can provide such images (libraries? individual?) - I (the author is anonymous, annotation of the translator) could make something available from my library.
Potential costs
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References
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