On 06/02/2013 03:51 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
I agree with Nemo here. Commons and IA store a lot of files just for saving them, but not *everything* is worth working on, or (the other way around), we don't find users who want to work on them.
In my opinion, you think too small. Wikisource could provide a way for volunteers to reference and proofread every book in the Internet Archive (some scanned by IA, others scanned by Google), with just a few exceptions because of copyrights. If you think big, we could copy every Djvu from the Internet Archive to Wikimedia Commons and create all Index pages in Wikisource, including all the wiki pages in the Page: namespace. Why not, really? Of course, time and storage and money may set the limits, but then we should tell WMF so, and ask for more resources. Or alternatively, we could close Wikisource and instead develop a proofreading function for the Internet Archive. They already store all the images, text and catalog data, but they don't provide a version control system for the text. They also lack a multilingual user interface, talk pages, and Wikisource's kind of an active user community. (For me, this is an existential question: Where does it leave Project Runeberg? Would it not be needed anymore? For the time being, it is needed for all those texts where copyright is a bit unclear, and that we dare to put online, but that Wikimedia Commons doesn't accept.) -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
