When we tried to convert into wiki code (a needed
step to add links and
to convert files into a "wiki hypertext") a pdf file, that's a opaque,
closed format, such a work turned off in a nightmare. If we simply load
free pdf books "as they are", I don't see any advantage, but "feed
wikisource numbers/statistics" nd this in presently far from my personal
interest.
As you guess, I'm one of users who don't support Aubrey's enthusiasm
about texts born digital, even if free. :-)
Alex
2013/6/12 David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com>
Nobody is saying anything about using copyrighted
works, there are many
books that have an open license that would allow to include them in
Wikisource.
For instance in ca-ws we have this translation from 2009:
http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Llibre:El_secret_de_l%E2%80%99or_que_creix_%2…
The original is in the PD, and the translator gave away his rights. It
would have been much easier to work directly with the pdf, instead of
converting to djvu.
Micru
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Aarti K. Dwivedi <
ellydwivedi2093(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If I am not wrong, as of today, most books that
were born digital, are
still under copyright. Of course, they are available freely on the
internet. But we can't use the pirated copies. How would we go about
the procurement of these books?
If we procure these copyrighted books, then the only we would have to
do is to check for proper formatting. Isn't it?
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se>wrote;wrote:
> On 06/12/2013 02:48 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
>
>> We could define some tasks as
>> * corrected the page
>> * OPTIONAL added optional templates/links/annotations
>> *...
>>
>
> Geotagged all the photos, ...
>
> The list doesn't end. You need a generic mechanism
> for any new feature you can invent. But aren't our
> existing templates and categories the best way to
> do this? You could just add to each page:
> {{done|proofread=user1|**validated=user2|geotagged=**user4|...}}
>
>
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