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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Re:Use the money to generate new works

[Squalish]

By nature, we take the low-hanging fruit first. Any near-surface ore or finite resource that's accessibly with iron-age tools is already mined. With a major breakdown of society (and ensuing breakdown of machinery), we're pretty heavily screwed as far as using nonrenewable resources is concerned. Which is one reason the people discussing peak oil are so scared.

The landfills of today will be the mines of tomorrow - and we havn't developed the technology yet to mine them.