Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream

An anonymous reader writes "Jimmy Wales recently asked the Wikipedia community to suggest useful, 'works that could in theory be purchased and freed' assuming a 'budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights.' He went on to say that he has spoken with a person 'who is potentially in a position to make this happen.' Ideas are being collected at the meta-wiki. Some early suggestions include, satellite imagery, textbooks, scientific journals and photo archives." So how about it? What works would you like to see wikified?

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[shawn aka Juggy]

Runescape Classic, IS DEAD an im sure ppl would LOVE to have it back around like it was in the old days, its tons of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then u guys can crack down on that stupid reinet site that has all them cheatin @$$holes

peace,
          Juggy

Re:The Penguin Classics Library

[Instine]

"the applied branches of chemistry include biochemistry which is probably the most rapidly developing science of all."

bingo. yes biotech, is very fast moving. indeed so is all tech. Computer science, is the prime example of a field whose books would be out of date each year. And if you go to a good university, so should many other subjects, such as economics, sociology, material sciences, political science, many of the arts ...

Re physics being stationary, no. Just ain't so. Maybe first year stuff (freshman I guess you call it). But areas that have steadily increased in volume and evolved have included solid state, quantum, astronomy, creation and world theory (the big bang ain't what it used to be), modeling, high energy, far field, ... etc.... Neutrino-matter interaction, dark matter, dark energy, nano tubes, quantum computing, .... These guys where either not know, to unclear to teach or very low down on people's priorities 10 years ago. If you're not getting taught them now by your third year, you've just wasted two years.

The building blocks wili remain the same, but texts that cover these for every majory subject (and a lot of minor), will not make much of a dent in the budget proposed if they shop arround.