Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Steve Vertigo <utilitymuffinresearch(a)yahoo.com>
writes:
Its not under the Wikimedia trademark thats what.
I thought "wiki" is about dynamic texts, but printed PD books are static
(okay, you can tweak the layout ad infinitum, but that's something
different).
The thing that would make a Project Sourceberg worthwhile is wiki-style
annotation of the texts.
Annotations could include cross-links to Wikipedia and Wiktionary as
well as within the document, and we could have a relatively sane system
for linking from Wikipedia and Wiktionary to *particular spots* in the
texts, for instance to provide context for a quote.
Now, that would require some special coding if we want to make it a
clean system (ie, one where visitors can edit annotations but not
original text); or one could just dump Gutenberg's ASCII texts straight
into giant wiki pages and do it all by hand.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)