2017-04-11 13:17 GMT+02:00 David Starner <prosfilaes(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 2:46 AM ankry.wiki <ankry.wiki(a)onet.pl> wrote:
>
> I doubt we can find 1000 works with PD translations into each Wikisource
language, including Latin and Sanskrit.
> It would be hard to find 10. Mostly ancient.
>
> Unlike Wikipedia, we present content that has already been created by
somebody.
We are not creating that ourselves.
(except few ws
accepting Wikisource translations)
How many Wikisources don't accept user translations? I'd guess that at
least half of them do.
Good question. We should store clearly this information somewhere (on
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19335648 and local pages ?).
It may not be universal, but you'll never know how
many of those works
actually have PD translations until you actually search for
them. A list
can at least provoke the search.
Exactly.
I can easily find to 10 works in most languages of the planet (The Bible,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Shakespeare, Conan Doyle,
Dickens, Stevenson, Verne, some important international treaty and
publication from the Vatican ; it's already a lot more than 10 works
available in more than 100 languages)
Speaking of the UN, the UNESCO created the Index Translationum (
http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsstatlist.aspx ) that can be helpful here.
Cdlt, ~nicolas
PS: Latin or Sanskrit are not the thoughest challenges, try Breton or
Venetian :P (by the way, the UDHR exist in these 4 languages and 500 more
;) only the Bible has more translations).