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.
Sound to me like a big mistake. Wikisource is a source, not an editor ;
we have not to decide what is more valuable for the public. And soon or
later there will be wars edit.