2009/7/6 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
Is there anything that will show the same verse in several translations at once? That would be ideal - highly educational. That would require something less like wiki pages and more like a database at the other end. Or someone laboriously compiling wiki pages of the form en.wiki---.org/wiki/John/3/16 .
The use of transclusion by section on Wikisource would make it technically simple to bring the existing verses (or chapters) together on pages for parallel reading. Of course it would be a lot of work ... and I suppose it should be done chapter-wise. (Verses are at best a convenience - chapter divisions have I think a wider acceptance, and are at least historically older.)
Indeed - and newer translations that use paragraphs, with the verse numbers as superscripts for historical reference.
Technically however we do this won't be hard. So it's a matter of what bible scholars on Wikipedia and Wikisource think would present it best.
- d.