Daniel Lee Mayer wrote:
This would be an excellent feature and adding a source:namespace with more restrictive rules would probably work out nicely. However, for source texts
I think such a project should be given a different name and kept separate from Wikipedia. The Wikipedia brand should represent something that is similar to an encyclopedia, or everybody will get confused. The same people (and company) can be involved in more than one project. There can be close links (even namespace-like links) between two websites that run under different brands.
Other than this, the current Wiki technology has limited use for source texts, because there can be any number of texts having the same title, so [[source:The Raven]] could be very ambiguous.
What we could easily do is to introduce a link scheme, that translates the Wiki text gutenberg:1063 into a useful link like http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1063 just like the 'ISBN:' rule we have today. If the upenn website goes away, the Wikipedia pages still contain "gutenberg:1063" and the link rule can be rewritten to use another website.