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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