I think we are far away from having the subject
categories worked out at en.WS. We are still slowly
working on populating the easy categories (like dates
and languages). Basically categories in general need
to be populated with manposer we do not currently
have. Subject categories need discussion and
decisions on how we are going to map those areas which
is harder to produce than the manpower to populate
easy categories.
More to your point about Wikisource encyclopedia
articles linking back to Wikipedia. en.WS currently
uses a space called "notes" in the header of the page
to say something like "See the modern Wikipedia entry
at [[w:Ethiopia|Ethiopia]]". Of course this is all in
the transcribed page than on the scanned page. But I
would think the scanned pages are used primarily to
proofread the the transcribed pages and the
transcribed pages would be what readers are seeeing.
So I am not sure why the scanned page need links to
Wikipedia.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work/Abyssinia
Birgitte SB
--- Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
Jim Hu wrote:
For example, the web service at Pubmed provide
the
abstract and
links to full text (at yet another website) for a
publication.
My users would want to add things like:
"This
paper describes a
resource that turned out to be useful for doing
X"
or "Figure 1
in this paper shows this thing that the authors
didn't notice"
or "The xxx gene described in this paper is
also
known as yyy;
they were shown to be the same 10 years
later"
etc.
I have a similar problem. At
http://runeberg.org/ I
digitize old
books, among them several encyclopedias. For the
sake of
familiarity, you can think about scanned books in
Wikisource
rather than my website.
In many cases an encyclopedia from 1889 is useful
for knowing the
population of Aberdeen in 1889. It could be nice to
report what
the current population is, but in some cases it is
also important
to point out that the reported number for 1889 was
indeed wrong.
But if scanning and OCRing one page takes 3 seconds
and
proofreading takes 3 minutes, how long does it take
to check all
the facts? Not knowing how this should best be
addressed, it
seemed like a stupid idea to digitize more old works
that are full
of errors.
When Wikipedia was started in 2001 and started to
get off the
ground, this became the obvious place to put
information on the
current and historic population of Aberdeen. The
scanning of old
texts no longer had to carry this role. It was
really only in
2002 and 2003 that I got the energy to scan more
works for my own
site, and in 2005 I scanned this for Wikisource,
Turns out Aberdeen's population in 1911 was 163,084,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work/1-0016
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work/Aberdeen
> but this bit of information is not linked to or
> included in
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen#Population
> So one problem still exists: From the
scanned book
> page, there is
> no link to the Wikipedia article that provides more
> up-to-date
> information. The reader of the scanned page can of
> course use a
> search engine, and will often find the Wikipedia
> article. But is
> this really the ultimate solution? And even if the
> Wikipedia
> article is found, the other scanned pages that link
> to the same
> article are not found from there.
> Should each scanned book page include a
list of
> links to Wikipedia
> articles that are relevant for the page? Could such
> lists be
> compiled (or suggested) automatically?
> Should Wikisource have a
[[category:Aberdeen]] that
> collects all
> pages, chapters and books that pertain to this town?
> Today the
> English Wikisource has one [[Category:Works by
> subject]], but
> under this is a very small tree, compared to all
> articles in
> Wikipedia. There is no category for Aberdeen, but
> one for
> Scotland that has 15 links of which 4 are to
> articles in the 1911
> Encyclopaedia Britannica. The 1911 EB article
> "Aberdeen (burgh)"
> is not among these four,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Aberdeen_%2…
> Wikisource also has a [[Category:Ottoman
Empire]]
> that contains
> four articles from the 1911 Encyclopaedia
> Britannica, one other
> chapter and two other works. But the corresponding
> category on
> the English Wikipedia has 56 pages and 12 immediate
> subcategories.
> Even the sub-subcategory Ottoman railways has 6
> Wikipedia
> articles. On Wikisource there seem to be 6 mentions
> of the
> "Orient Express", but these are found through Google
> and not
> through links on the website,
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22orient+express%22+site%3Aen.wikisource.org
> --
> Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
> Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se
>
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