I made a draft on a proposal here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/W…
Please edit, it's a draft and I think it's a problem many of us know from a
long time.
The idea is that, if we had a system for MediaWiki to know what a book is,
we could
* better metadata management system, thus a better integration with Wikidata
* we could develop better tools, for example create automatic Indexes and
navigation templates, which would maybe enable us to "import" EPUBs
directly on Wikisource
* have a better workflow, making it easier to new users to use us
* have even better statistics and analytics: which are the *books* (not the
pages!) which are read o WIkisource?
etc.
IMHO, the Community Wishlist is a great opportunity to push for a systemic
development of Wikisource: I'm convinced we don't need little tools here
and there, but a systematic overview of what Wikisource framework,
workflows and software.
I'm open to discuss the merging of different proposals in the Wishlist.
Aubrey