[Foundation-l] Re: Wikisource as a repository for thesis

Anthere anthere9 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 13 16:37:25 UTC 2004



rfrangi at coopetition.it a écrit:
> I dont'know if the subject has been already debated in the past, but we are going to publish on wikisource a thesis written by a fellow wikipedian who graduated last week in sociology. The nice thing about this is that the thesis is ON wikipedia (specifically the italian edition).
> 
> Since we haven't found any other thesis published on wikisource, we asked ourselves if a thesis can be published there.
> On http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:What_is_Wikisource%3F is stated that "Original writings by a Wikipedia contributor are excluded" (but given the subject of the thesis we think everyone will close an eye).
> Still a thesis is a document, that has a certain degree of academic recognition.
> 
> The question is: wouldn't be nice (and useful) if wikisource could work also as a repository for thesis? 
> 
> Snowdog.

I would say yes. ant






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