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| A barnstar for Jimbo - he is so nice. Someday a historical statue will be built for him! ] 01:31, 17 Feb 2004 | A barnstar for Jimbo - he is so nice. Someday a historical statue will be built for him! ] 01:31, 17 Feb 2004 | ||
| == Selected mailing list posts == | |||
| I've been approached by a major publisher about the possibility of | |||
| working with us to producing and publish a print edition of Misplaced Pages. | |||
| The concept that they are most interested in at the moment is a single | |||
| large volume, something similar to the Columbia Encyclopedia (a | |||
| desktop encyclopedia, 3200 pages) or Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | |||
| (2067 pages). | |||
| The Britannica Concise has 28,000 entries. The Columbia has 51,000 | |||
| entries. I have no idea of estimated word or byte counts for those. | |||
| One goal would be to have something ready for market by October 1st, | |||
| in time for the holiday gift season. I'm unsure of how early before | |||
| that *we* would need to be ready. | |||
| I've only begun talking to them about it, which is why I won't say who | |||
| it is just yet. But they understand our license and want to work with | |||
| us. | |||
| The question was asked of me, and I ask of the community: can we have | |||
| something like that ready in time? Or should we shoot for next year? | |||
| I have long stated a goal that "Misplaced Pages 1.0" be ready in December of | |||
| this year, although we haven't actually made any formal decisions | |||
| about how we're going to do that. | |||
| So this is more ambitious and less ambitious. More ambitious in the | |||
| sense that we'd be trying to meet an earlier deadline. Less ambitious | |||
| in the sense that we'd be trying to do something smaller than a full | |||
| Britannica-killer. | |||
| --Jimbo | |||
Revision as of 02:27, 29 February 2004
The best place to learn about who am I is at my website www.jimmywales.com.
m:Advertising on Misplaced Pages
--JDW
It may not be entirely clear from the above that Jimbo is our "benevolent dictator" (see Dictator#The_Benevolent_Dictator?, MeatBall:BenevolentDictator), as well as our designated agent under the DMCA. Well, now you know.
Meta: meta:User:Jimbo Wales
Email: jwales at bomis.com
A barnstar for Jimbo - he is so nice. Someday a historical statue will be built for him! 0 01:31, 17 Feb 2004
Selected mailing list posts
I've been approached by a major publisher about the possibility of working with us to producing and publish a print edition of Misplaced Pages. The concept that they are most interested in at the moment is a single large volume, something similar to the Columbia Encyclopedia (a desktop encyclopedia, 3200 pages) or Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (2067 pages).
The Britannica Concise has 28,000 entries. The Columbia has 51,000 entries. I have no idea of estimated word or byte counts for those.
One goal would be to have something ready for market by October 1st, in time for the holiday gift season. I'm unsure of how early before that *we* would need to be ready.
I've only begun talking to them about it, which is why I won't say who it is just yet. But they understand our license and want to work with us.
The question was asked of me, and I ask of the community: can we have something like that ready in time? Or should we shoot for next year?
I have long stated a goal that "Misplaced Pages 1.0" be ready in December of this year, although we haven't actually made any formal decisions about how we're going to do that.
So this is more ambitious and less ambitious. More ambitious in the sense that we'd be trying to meet an earlier deadline. Less ambitious in the sense that we'd be trying to do something smaller than a full Britannica-killer.
--Jimbo