Dear all,
volcanic User:Alex brollo is working on "dictionaries", aka generating
lists of used words in Pages and works.
For example:
https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Discussioni_pagina:Il_cavallarizzo.djvu/2,
as a list of the book Il cavallarizzo.
I bet that in the next few years (with more books, more users, Wikidata,
and the world domination led by Wikisource) we would have more and more of
these experiments.
A list of used words of an ancient book could help customize OCR and tools
for typo corrections, for example.
Moreover, we will have Wikidata, and maybe we will need to store some
metadata (eg page numbers, or metadata about images and scans) into
Wikisource.
Lua could help us build tools for creating automatic indexes, or textual
version in ns0 (eg precompile the pagelist tag...)
So,
the question is: want we Wikisource communities a new Data namespace?
How do you like the idea? Would you want to have the Wikibase extension in
it, or just a normal namespace?
I'm sure you will find this mail confusing, but I think we are in the need
of something,
I just don't know what it is :-)
Aubrey