Birgitte SB wrote:
So I am not sure why the scanned page need links to Wikipedia.
I'm not insisting that they need to. The sequence of chapters or articles runs in parallel to the sequence of scanned pages. Exactly how they should best be represented in digital is still an open issue. Some formats (scanned PDF) is very close to the printed pages, other formats (e.g. classic Project Gutenberg e-text) tries hard to distance itself from the printed pages. Subject linking should at best refer to a point (or sometimes a range) in either sequence, the entry point where I should start to read this book if I want to learn about Aberdeen. The development in WS of "page:" and "notes" is very interesting to follow.
We tend to think of Wikipedia as something big, one of the biggest things to have happened on the Internet. But walk into any library and consider how small their encyclopedia shelf is in comparison to the rest of the library. We have a lot to do. In the end, Wikipedia might serve as a subject index to Wikisource. The index tends to be smaller than the book.