[Foundation-l] News from English Wikisource

[daniwo59 at aol.com]

There is no formal relationship between Wikisource and Project Gutenberg,  
Googlebooks, the Perseus Project, or any other online library of texts, except  
that we scour their offerings for ideas and content. I believe that through  
hyperlinks and our translation and format projects, we are taking these texts 
to  the next level, where they integrate fully into our other projects. Of 
course,  there is still a LOT of work to be done, butr gradually we are making  
headway. As an example, _http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives/Tiberius_Gracchus_ 
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives/Tiberius_Gracchus)  contains  text that 
can also be found in Project Gutenberg's library as part of a larger  book, 
Plutarch's "Lives." By linking to the relevant Wikipedia articles, we have  
created an original annotated text.
 
Our translations are, of course, original works, and we also have some  
content that does not exist in other repositories, such as individual letters,  
etc. See this 
_http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_to_Mary_Todd_Lincoln%2C_Friday%2C_May_5%2C_1865_ 
(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe_to_Mary_Todd_Lincoln,_Friday,_May_5,_1865)  for  an example of an interesting 
letter that complements an existing article on  Wikipedia. We can also run 
translated texts parallel to the originals, as you  can see here with this text from 
Poland _http://en.wikisource.org/w
iki/Protest_of_Zofia_Kossak-Szczucka?match=pl_ (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Protest_of_Zofia_Kossak-Szczucka?match=pl) . 
 
In short, we admire what the other online libraries are doing, but we  
believe that Wikisource can be more than just a datadump of words and images. It  
can be a very useful collection, fully integrated into all our other  projects.
 
Danny
 
In a message dated 11/5/2006 9:51:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
dgerard at gmail.com writes:

On  05/11/06, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:

> I  thought it would be a good idea to share some news about another   
project,
> the English Wikisource, which has been doing some remarkable  work in  the 
past
> few months, thanks to a small group of  dedicated editors and  contributors.
> First for some background:  Wikisource is much more than a library of old  
and
> PD texts. It  can, and should, operate in tandem with the other projects, by
>  providing the background to the information we offer. For instance, take  a


I have a question: what's Wikisource's relations like with that  other
well-known source text archive, Project Gutenberg, and its  associated
Distributed Proofreaders? And any other source text archives. I  must
confess I have absolutely no idea of our relations with them, and  it's
the first question that sprang to my mind when I heard of  Wikisource.


-  d.
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