Why would we be doing this project at all if we
didn't think
that Wikipedia will be around longer than other sites, and that we
will be able to present texts in a superior way? Project
Gutenberg, for example, suffers from the problem that its texts are
ancient ASCII. We can already do a bit better, because we can
include images from the original, original italics, etc. Ours are
also searchable, and we can include links to commentary.
While I agree that Gutenberg could use some updating, I disagree on
Wikipedia involvment. This is really for another project, and one
that probably doesn't use wiki but some other system such as Zend
which is more easily regulated.
IMHO such a project *could* work with the wiki system, especially for
OCRed pages that need manual work. This could be done by a community
rather than by a single person, especially if, e.g., a book is broken
into chapters taht can be edited seperately.