Andrea, I hear you suggesting that we need a different upload process
for pdfs and other documents, wherein when you upload them there is a
"digital document to paged wikitext" script that runs and generates an
appropriate result, which can then be imported elsewhere on the
projects as needed.
My point (working in an academic digital library and
just seeing the amount
of thesis, dissertation, articles passing by) is that if for people is a
difficult, overcomplicated burden to upload a PDF in an institutional
repository (5 minutes of their time, even less), how can we wikilibrarians
think that they will come to us and upload and "curate" their text?
Right - these should be doable by different people. An ambassador to
an institutional repository should be able to collect approving
signatures and do a bulk upload him/herself.
--
Sam.