Thank you Lars! Two brief replies:
1. Thanks to you and Birgitte for the clarification about Wikidata. It's looks
like that isn't the place to go, but on the other hand what has been suggested
here about Mediawiki supporting TEI in the future could open a lot of doors. I
would really like to know where to go and who is involved in that.
>I personally think that simple scanning and proofreading is
>the activity where we can most easily grow Wikisource. Since
>the job is mostly non-intellectual, many people can be
>instructed to help, without creating edit wars...
>Translation or scholarly
>editing requires more coordination and takes more time for
>a larger work than the sum of the parts.
2. It's important to emphasize that what I was writing about wasn't something
theoretical, but something that has already been happening for years at Hebrew
Wikisource. We have been doing both critical editions and scholarly editing,
have had much fruitful discussion and collaboration, and never even once has
there ever been an edit war. Work on projects like these is indeed slower than
the process of scanning and proofreading, but the final product is often a much
more valuable contribution to the public. (The public domain scan was already
available anyway. But where once a reliable edition was copyrighted and
unavailable, now an even better edition is available online under a free
license!)
I would suggested learning from our experience, and looking at your own
Wikisource with a generous eye that values many different types of
collaboration on texts towards building a useful free library for the public.
While you and others are proofreading, be appreciative at the same time towards
others who are editing in other ways.
Dovi
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