My 2 cents. <div><br></div><div>I think that Wikisource communities could decide to *try* implementing &quot;critical editions&quot; of texts.</div><div>I would think it is better to have a proper namespace for that, or at least a clear template which warns users about the collaborative nature of the edition.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I would also think that these critical editions would be for just few texts, compared to the thousand of printed texts Wikisource</div><div>provides. And, of you think about, &quot;neutrality&quot; does not exists neither in our proofreading work, there is always interpretatation (of course, there are shades and proofreading an ancient manuscript is different to proofreading a XX centurt printed document).</div>

<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m interested in Wikisource critical editions (as I am in annotation and hyperlinks), </div><div>and as I explained before I think a layer system should be better, but we are technologically far from that. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Aubrey</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/17 Marc Galli <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:marc.galli35@orange.fr" target="_blank">marc.galli35@orange.fr</a>&gt;</span><br>

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              <div>Ah, now I understand what you meant! But why do you
                think the editing guidelines will be &quot;without
                reference&quot;? Just like a Wikipedia article can and should
                be based on sources, the Wikisource guidelines for
                editing a text should be written by people familiar with
                the scholarship on that text, while referencing both
                that scholarship and the relevant editions and
                manuscripts. Which is exactly what we try to do. And it
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    I understand that in fact you do not strictly critical editions (I
    have try to see what you do on he:, but I am absolutely not familiar
    with this langage), but compilations of sources, which is quite
    different. In that sense, I have nothing to say.<br>
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    Good weekend.
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