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Wikisource may aim towards being a repository of sources for<br>
Wikipedia. But IMHO it is not its only goal. In French Wikisource, we<br>
proofread some novels and short stories... and we would like them to<br>
be available in e-pub and pdf: now many people read on e-readers and<br>
we must be here to give them free texts to read. Don't you think so ?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I think that Wikisource should be a repository for public domain knowledge and literature. <br>As Wikipedia is a sum of many specialized encyclopedias, probably Wikisource is (should be)<br>the sum of specialized libraries... We work with public domain texts, and that includes documents and grey literature, maybe from public sector and legal literature. <br>
<br>Anyway, it would be very important to have an automatic tool for exporting in ePub or pdf, <br>but IMHO the community is really small for that. <br>Probably, developers of Wikipedia, PediaPress and Source (ThomasV?) would be able to work together to create a tool that needs to be as automatic as possible.<br>
It is an important goal, the my only problem is that I can't really help with that, <br>I'm not a developer and I don't know how to contribute to such a technical issue. <br><br>Of course, in the Italian community we're taliking a lot about this (also within Wikimedia Italy), <br>
but I do think that we lack people and competences to do something real and significative.<br><br>If there's someone out there who's working on this, <br>we are ready to test ;-) <br><br><br>Aubrey</div></div>