On 5/31/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(Re: Wikisource)
... but the *original source* should be protected at
the steward level,
which requires a software change.
You mean the "original source" as in the print edition that was
scanned to create the Wikisource document? You could lock it up
somewhere, I suppose. ;-) In seriousness, the scanning and
proofreading process is, of course, prone to errors which are fixed
over time. Even for a well-checked document, new metadata is added,
annotations are made, new formatting standards implemented, and so on.
So what you end up with is, once again, the need for the "last known
stable version". Same as in Wikipedia, really.
There's nothing inherently wrong with using wiki processes for small
changes to large documents.
Erik