<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/21 Hélène Pedrosa-Masson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edhral@free.fr">edhral@free.fr</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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>
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Best regards,<br>
--<br>
Edhral<br></blockquote><div><br>I too think that wikisource should be much more a "container for arts and history" than a "container for update knowledge", since most works are ancient (a century or more); this is why - IMHO - my small field of interest, which brought me into source world: equitation ("the <b>art</b> and practice of riding"), that's much more an art than a science, is a rather interesting topic, just as poems and literature, old chronicles and old newspapers. This means too that users will be very few, just as are very few the users of old or ancient books. Therefore source can be a useful "source" for some particular topics only, from wikipedia point of view. <br>
<br>No matter: the whole server space devoided to wikisource is so small... the whole unzipped dump of it.source "good content" is more or less 250 Mby, t.i. less than three full-size (100 Mby) Commons files. ;-) <br>
<br>Alex<br><br><br><br><br></div></div><br>