[WikiEN-l] Bible websites

[David Gerard]

2009/7/6 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:

>> Is there anything that will show the same verse in several
>> translations at once? That would be ideal - highly educational. That
>> would require something less like wiki pages and more like a database
>> at the other end. Or someone laboriously compiling wiki pages of the
>> form en.wiki---.org/wiki/John/3/16 .

> The use of transclusion by section on Wikisource would make it
> technically simple to bring the existing verses (or chapters) together
> on pages for parallel reading. Of course it would be a lot of work ...
> and I suppose it should be done chapter-wise. (Verses are at best a
> convenience - chapter divisions have I think a wider acceptance, and are
> at least historically older.)


Indeed - and newer translations that use paragraphs, with the verse
numbers as superscripts for historical reference.

Technically however we do this won't be hard. So it's a matter of what
bible scholars on Wikipedia and Wikisource think would present it
best.


- d.