On 06 July 2016 at 18:33 Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:


It seems that the Chilcot Report is under Open Government licence (OGL)

3.0.

Is anyone working to put it in Wikisource?

Note that OGL exempts Crown logos and some other elements. Any third
party-content may not be under OGL.

Nothing apparent on the Scriptorium (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium).

http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/the-report/ has files to read as PDFs. There might indeed be reasons to put natively-digital files on English Wikisource, in another format (MediaWiki HTML), assuming the licensing situation allows that. For example, hyperlinking and annotation.

It would be as well, though, to get a rationale and intellectual property assessment together, if anyone feels strongly about the availability of the material for those and other purposes.

Note that https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Annotations mentions Wikibooks as a possible other site for heavy-duty annotation. The requirement to "maintain neutrality and objectivity in all annotations" is naturally what we expect, in the context of Wikimedian values, but might require serious patrolling to enforce. Note also that "any annotation containing inferences, assumptions, and/or suggestions" is banned.

According to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Wikilinks, wikilinks are considered a type of annotation. That's only a proposed guideline, by the way.

Of course it might be argued, for example, that simply posting the content would make the report easier to search. That does sound more like Wikibooks, to me, though.

Charles