2017-04-11 13:17 GMT+02:00 David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com>:
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> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 2:46 AM ankry.wiki <ankry.wiki@onet.pl> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Unlike Wikipedia, we present content that has already been created by somebody. We are not creating that ourselves.
>> (except few ws accepting Wikisource translations)
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> How many Wikisources don't accept user translations? I'd guess that at least half of them do.

> 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).