[WikiEN-l] Bible websites

[John Vandenberg]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/6 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hm. Of course, Tim is right - if its public/open domain then
>> wikisource should host it and we will then link to it. The issue with
>> the hebtools site/script is that most of its links go to BibleGateway.
>>  Obviously the current script's sources need to be changed to include
>> both other gateways like bible.cc and of course wikisource. A choice
>> of gateways would be preferable.
>> The current hosted translations/versions on wikisource are:
>>    * Bible (Wycliffe) (1380s)
>>    * Bible (Tyndale) (1526)
>>    * Douay-Rheims Bible (1610)
>>    * King James translation, or “Authorized Version” (1611)
>>    * King James translation, Oxford Standard (1769)
>>    * American Standard translation (1901)
>>    * Bible (Jewish Publication Society 1917)
>>    * World English translation (in progress since 1997)
>>    * Wikisource translation (in progress since 2006)
>
>
> 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 .

Wikisource does this whenever someone can be bothered adding the
necessary glue.  e.g.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible/Jude/1/1

see here for more:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Bible/

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John Vandenberg