Hi Sucheta, I think WikiBooks and the Wikimedia Commons should ideally suffice in this scenario.
On 5 January 2015 at 18:54, Tito Dutta <trulyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Namaskar, > Sucheta, > Yes, Wikipedia does not allow original research. > You may check > https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Original_research > I may try helping with MediaWiki-powered encyclopedia too, if needed. > Regards. > > > On 5 January 2015 at 18:46, Sucheta Ghoshal <sucheta.ghos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> A few of my friends and I have been planning to document the history of >> counterculture in Bengali art and literature. These friends are also >> working in that domain professionally, and have access to a huge repository >> of texts, images, and other relevant details that they are willing to make >> available digitally in the form of free contents. We wish to have the >> contents as wikis, and, pictures and video snippets that might be involved >> - as properly licensed free materials. Now, the concern is if there is some >> Wikimedia Project that would host contents that are based on such an >> enormous amount of original research. Wikipedia is certainly not the >> appropriate place. And, as there exist no earlier works on this particular >> domain on the internet, references would be negligible. I was thinking >> about Wikibooks, instead. I am not entirely sure if that fits either, but I >> assume it fits better than Wikipedia, at least. The last option is to host >> it ourselves with the MediaWiki setup, and I am considering it very much. >> But, the idea essentially is to make people edit and enrich it with as much >> input as possible. It would be really helpful, in that case, if it could be >> placed in one of the Wikimedia projects. Suggestions, of every kind, would >> be deeply appreciated. >> >> Best, >> Sucheta >> -- >> Sucheta Ghoshal >> Software Engineer, Editing >> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, What goes around, may not necessarily come around, it may simply bounce back. Please sign this petition for Volvo buses in Coimbatore: https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore
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