[Foundation-l] Re: Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica onWikimedia

[Poe, Marshall]

--- Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> ...
> The only question in my mind is the domain: should this be under 
> eb1911.wikipedia.org? We could make it visually distinct, to avoid 
> confusion with Wikipedia itself. Or would eb1911.wikimedia.org be 
> better? Or eb1911.wikisource.org?

It absolutely should *not* be on a Wikipedia subdomain. Wikisource is
the place for this. 

-- mav

This is exactly right.  An encyclopedia from 1911 is a primary source of
historical interest; it's data, not metadata.  If it goes anywhere, it's
Wikisource.

--Marshall Poe


	
		
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