Hi Daniel, I think it's a great idea, a serious step for the integration of the Open Access world with the Wikimedia one. Being born-digital content, I would support all kinds of "bot-hash" validation, maybe a "human" one is needed just for formatting or templates. Looking forward to see these things come true :-)
Aubrey On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Mietchen < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > today, we posted a proposal to the English Wikisource about automated > import of Open-Access articles: > > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Automated_import_of_openly_licensed_scholarly_articles > > In parallel, I uploaded an important zoological work (the first > monograph to use Linnean taxonomy for animals; written in Swedish and > accompanied by a Latin translation) to Wikimedia Commons and posted > about this at the Swedish and Latin Wikisources: > > https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:M%C3%B6tesplatsen#Svenska_spindlar > https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Vicifons:Scriptorium#Aranei_Svecici . > > In both cases, the aim is to bring more scholarly content onto > Wikisource, and the idea is to scale things up if that works well. > > Feedback of any kind is most welcome. > > Thanks and cheers, > > Daniel > > > -- > > http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications > http://okfn.org > http://wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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