Re: [Wikisource-l] About texts without supporting files and Index: pages

2013-06-11 Thread Thomas PT
Sorry if my answer is off-topic but if metadata are stored in WIkidata, is it really needed to create index pages to store the same data as Wikidata? As I see the things, we'll have bibliographical metadata on Wikidata (title, author, date of publication...) and data related to proofreading

Re: [Wikisource-l] About texts without supporting files and Index: pages

2013-06-11 Thread Andrea Zanni
@aarti: sometimes some books/text/documents are born-digital. Think about all the scientific literature, or Phd thesis. These files (if cc-by/sa licensed) could be stored in Wikisource, and be useful for the wikicommunity. We already have some means to link those text to their source (with a URL).

Re: [Wikisource-l] About texts without supporting files and Index: pages

2013-06-11 Thread Andrea Zanni
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Thomas PT thoma...@hotmail.fr wrote: Sorry if my answer is off-topic but if metadata are stored in WIkidata, is it really needed to create index pages to store the same data as Wikidata? As I see the things, we'll have bibliographical metadata on Wikidata

Re: [Wikisource-l] About texts without supporting files and Index: pages

2013-06-11 Thread Alex Brollo
You're right Aubrey nevertheless while promoving a user friendly interface the result is that data and wiki code is extremely difficult to use as a clean data base. Think only to wiki markup and the simple trick to mark bold and italic text with apostophes very user friendly, but something

Re: [Wikisource-l] About texts without supporting files and Index: pages

2013-06-11 Thread billinghurst
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:16:54 +0530, Aarti K. Dwivedi ellydwivedi2...@gmail.com wrote: A slighly off-topic question: Even if we modify the extension to proofread books which do not have scans( I am assuming books that were born digital ), against what will these books be proofread? I am not