Toby wrote:

It is news to me that Wikibooks wants to have /unedited/ sources; I know that Wikibooks wants to have /annotated/ sources,

I'm of the opinion that importing the unannotated source will encourage annotation much more than not having the source text on the wiki at all. It's a bit hard to annotate something that is not there yet! If we expect each Wikibooks source module to have annotation on it /before/ it is imported, then I don't think much of anything will get imported. Thus nothing will get annotated.

I don't see a problem with having many source texts go unannotated for a long time; they will get annotated eventually.

but since Wikipedia wants to have the very same thing, I don't think that storing original sources in Wikibooks is the right thing.

Why not? A Wikipedia article can just point to the Wikibooks source text. An added plus is that the Wikibooks version of the text would have or at least plans to have annotation. As more people read it, more people will add annotation which makes the source text more and more useful. Pointing people to a version of the text on Wikisourse that cannot be annotated, will prevent them from adding value to the source text via annotation. Why not just point them to a place that welcomes annotation?

On Wikisource, they can be made use of by any other project, Wikibook /and/ Wikipedia (and even Wiktionary if it likes, although in that case I can't imagine why it would want them).

Why is a separate project needed for this?

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)