[Mediawiki-l] scanning books with MediaWiki

[SJ]

Inspiring indeed.  And two-window editing will be most helpful for
translation and script-assisted proofreading as well (e.g., the
interwiki link checker interface).

SJ

On 8/14/05, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> 
> After this bounced around at the Wikimania conference, I wrote up
> some ideas for how MediaWiki could be turned into a proofreading
> and publishing tool for scanned books on my user page on meta,
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LA2
> 
> I'm very far from implementing this, but I think the collection of
> ideas could provide inspiration to others.  Some of the
> components, such as the move away from a flat namespace in
> Wikibooks, more advanced upload/download functions, and two-window
> editing might be universally useful.
> 
> Since this is not tied to the Wikimedia Foundation projects, but
> suggestions for a bunch of technical extensions to the MediaWiki
> software, I guess I should move it over to mediawiki.org, right?
> I'll give the ideas a little more time to mature first.
> 
> 
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