[WikiEN-l] Bible websites

[stevertigo]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM, David Goodman<dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> The current practice in many academic publications on religion  for
> non specialists seems usually to use the NIV,  and often add the KJ V
> if substantially different.
>
> If however one is discussing English literature, one would just link to the KJV
>
> I therefore do not see how we can find a uniform practice.

Yes, the NIV is both necessary and proprietary.
It simply means we need to deal with the portals - albeit to a lesser
degree than currently.

Summing up, people seem to agree that the bibleref tag needs to point
to a local tool, and that tool should do something a bit more tailored
and sophisticated about how to present Bible sources - particularly
free sources where available.

Where we can, simply replacing BibleGateway with Wikisource links will
make things more free.* And replacing most BG references with other
competing online portals will make things more fair.*

-S