On 2012-08-06 10:40, Dovi Jacobs wrote:
*I hope all of this is clearer than my original
inquiry.*
Yes, indeed. Thanks.
*Was anything discussed at Wikimedia (including
Aubrey’s various
layers) that might make solutions possible for functions like these?
*
No, not that I'm aware. But I was not present during
unconference on Sunday July 15.
Your examples 1 and 2 are the combination of two printed
editions or variants into one digital product. That process is
scholarly, text-critical editing, an intellectual exercise. For
example, if the British and American editions would be found
to differ not only in spelling but also in content, you would
have to develop a policy for how to deal with that. The current
process in Wikisource, as supported by the ProofreadPage
extension, doesn't address such issues, but only converts one
printed edition into a digital edition, through scanned images
and human proofreading. It is a much more limited task, a
mostly non-intellectual exercise, guided by simple rules.
Your example 3 is more of a current issue, in my mind. Concrete
cases can be found with Bibles, but also with one book that I
added, The Kinematics of Machinery,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Kinematics_of_Machinery
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:The_Kinematics_of_Machinery.djvu
This book has chapters, numbered sections, and endnotes.
I developed an advanced template for these links, that
should be used when proofreading the text,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:Tkom
But still, for a certain section (e.g. § 2), should the template
link to the Page: namespace,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Kinematics_of_Machinery.djvu/58
or to the transclusion page in the main namespace?
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Kinematics_of_Machinery/Chapter_1#36
It can't link to both. Ideally, ProofreadPage would be remade so
that each position in the book (a certain chapter, a certain page,
a certain paragraph) has only one unique address. This is
an aspect that apparently was not considered when the current
software and namespace architecture were developed.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature -
http://runeberg.org/