The Internet Archive is adding book previews to Wikipedia entries

guest · Nov 4, 2019

The Internet Archive is adding book previews to Wikipedia entries
November 4, 2019
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3083379/internet-archive-book-previews-wikipedia

Wikipedia and The Internet Archive are two not-for-profits whose work compliment each other perfectly.
Little wonder then that the two are joining forces to enhance Wikipedia entries with extracts from books stored in the Internet Archive vaults.

So far, the Archive has 3.8 million books scanned and is adding more at the rate of 10,000 per day. The BHAG for the project is four million books scanned and online in the near future.
The Wikipedia citations will take a bit longer though. So far there are around 130,000 citations from around 50,000 books.

It's not a simple process, and Wikipedia editors will have their work cut out ensuring that each entry is formatted correctly with the code for the API, to allow the book to flank the entry.
It's also a largely manual process.
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Internet Archive: Weaving Books into the Web—Starting with Wikipedia

stapp · Nov 5, 2019

Thanks for this mood.
I jumped straight into here and started picking.

https://archive.org/details/texts

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