On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> But since
Milos asked: In Wikisource changing the original is indeed
> vandalism, but somebody must notice that it's vandalism. AFAIK
Wikisource
> doesn't have a proper way to
authenticate that the document is in its
> original form.
Could you elaborate on this? If you open the
links in my email, you
will see that the text can be verified against the edition on file,
Do you mean the side-by-side ProofreadPage view?
Yes. If the original is uploaded, we can keep the Wikisource copy in
line fairly easily.
If necessary, we could even fully protect the pages. The proection
policy on en.ws allows for that.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Protection_policy
and Wikisource
projects typically have *revision* patrolling enabled
to help catch incorrect changes.
Revision patrolling is less bulletproof than a checksum, but if it is
enough for the people who care about this normative grammar's integrity,
it's certainly enough for me.
How could checksums help?
--
John Vandenberg