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. There would have to be some special features, though, like subpages for the chapters (back to square one;) , a better diff system maybe, and access for logged-in users only to cut down troll activity. Another advantage would be that it could be easily interlinked with wikipedia ([[source:The Origin of Species]]...)
Magnus
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