2011/7/7 Ting Chen wing.philopp@gmx.de
On de.wikisource.org they scan every page of the original text, upload the scan on Commons and show the scan on the right part of every page as an image. It is even obligatory to have the original scan of the text.
The following page is an example: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Seite:Oberamt_Tettnang_231.jpg (I just hit the random page)
I know - in fact, it was exactly what I wanted to explain :-) I think this system is perfect for digitized documents, aka paper documents which has been scanned and need transcription.
MVHO is that the same system is redundant for born-digital documents. If we use the Proofread Extension (that's how it's called), you need to re-transcribe the whole text, or at least have it formatted. Then you transclude the text in ns0. The text is reliable, but it is a lot of work, and lot of it is just redundant (why write by hand something tha has just benn written in a good pdf?).
If we use the simple ns0 (many wikisources are not so sctrict as de.source in this regard) you need to do the same (transform in wikitext, format). So the issues remain.
Now, I was wondering if we can find another (technical? organizational? political?)solution for born-digital documents, as pdf, scientific articles etc.
Aubrey