[Foundation-l] Wikisource and reCAPTCHA

[Samuel J Klein]

Hello Aubrey,

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Aubrey <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The issue of metadata is nontheless serious, because it's one of the most
> important flaws of Wikisource: not applying standards (i.e Dublin Core) and not
> having a proper tools for export/import and harvest metadata

Both good points. Are there proposals on wikisource to address these
two points in a way that's friendly to wikisource contributors?

>> I want us to get better, faster, less held up by the idea of
>> coordinating with other projects, because there are much larger
>> projects out there worthy of coordinating with.  The annotators who
>> work on the Perseus Project come to mind... but that's truly a harder
>> problem than this one.
>
> The Perseus project is an *amazing* project, but I regard them far more ahead
> than us. The PP is actually a Virtual Research Environment, with tools for
> scholars and researcher for studying texts, (concordances and similar stuff).
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> I would love to have PP people involved in collaboration with Wikisource, just
> don't know if this is possible.

Yes, PP is ahead of us in some ways.  But in other ways they have run
into bottleneck and multilingual issues that a wiki environment can
resolve.

I believe that Prof. Greg Crane of the Perseus Project (cc:ed here) is
interested in starting to collaborate with Wikisource, even while
pursuing ideas about developing a larger framework for wiki-style
annotations and editions.

While it may be hard in the short term, in the long term that's what I
think we all want wikisource to become.

> It is interesting because a project similar to PGDP (it is Italian and started
> in 1993, emulating the glorious PG, just with Italian texts) is, right now,
> moving to a wiki. Although the scale is way smaller, Wikipedia and Wikisource
> showed them a system which tends to eliminate bottlenecks, and for them this is
> becoming crucial.
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> Luckily, the relationships with the Italian Wikisource are really good, and
> they'll probably share an office with Wikimedia Italy, in October.
> The interesting fact is that the offices will be within a library ;-), so I
> really expect a collaboration there.

Wow.  This is all great to hear -- can you include a link to the
project?  I'd like to blog about it.

Warmly,
SJ