On 4/26/05, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)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