Wikisource should only be used for material that has already been published
elsewhere, it sounds like what's being attempted here is original
publishing.
One option may be simply to set up your own MediaWiki installation and host
such material there. You can therefore set your own licencing rules for
the content, and make your own rules about what is and is not allowed.
Cheers,
Craig Franklin
On 5 January 2015 at 23:42, Richard Symonds <
richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
This sounds like a Wikisource idea - do we have any
wikisourcerers who can
give their thoughts?
Richard Symonds
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On 5 January 2015 at 13:30, Sucheta Ghoshal <sucheta.ghoshal(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
A few of my friends and I have been planning to document the history of
counterculture in Bengali art and literature. These friends are also
working in that domain professionally, and have access to a huge
repository
of texts, images, and other relevant details that
they are willing to
make
available digitally in the form of free contents.
We wish to have the
contents as wikis, and, pictures and video snippets that might be
involved
- as properly licensed free materials. Now, the
concern is if there is
some
Wikimedia Project that would host contents that
are based on such an
enormous amount of original research. Wikipedia is certainly not the
appropriate place. And, as there exist no earlier works on this
particular
domain on the internet, references would be
negligible. I was thinking
about Wikibooks, instead. I am not entirely sure if that fits either,
but I
assume it fits better than Wikipedia, at least.
The last option is to
host
it ourselves with the MediaWiki setup, and I am
considering it very much.
But, the idea essentially is to make people edit and enrich it with as
much
inputs as possible. It would be really helpful,
in that case, if it could
be placed in one of the Wikimedia projects. Suggestions, of every kind,
would be deeply appreciated.
Best,
Sucheta
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