On 4/26/05, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
There is an essential difference between the Commons data and the Wikisource data. The Commons data has as a restriction that the content needs to be potentially usefull for one of the Wikimedia projects.
Images and sounds uploaded to Commons are directly usable in all the projects. There is no such facility for Wikisource.
This was part of my initial concern with the idea of using Commons for this proposed project. Though it's obviously useful for the Wikipedia article [[Wuthering Heights]] to link to an audio recording of the selfsame work elsewhere in the Wikimedia world, the recording should not actually be _part of_ the encyclopaedia.
However, I am now convinced that these recordings belong on Commons regardless. Even if the status quo persists, the Commons still exists to serve Wikisource as much as it does any other project, and having audio recordings of Wikisource texts seems quite justifiable.
Steve