[Foundation-l] Wikisource as a repository for thesis
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Wed Oct 13 19:02:33 UTC 2004
rfrangi at coopetition.it wrote:
>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).
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>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.
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>The question is: wouldn't be nice (and useful) if wikisource could work also as a repository for thesis?
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Speaking as a Wikisource admin and as the person who wrote most of that
policy page I think that I can safely say that such a thesis can be
accomodated. That rule is primarily there to forestall those
individuals who are out to promote their own pet theories or bad poetry
that has never been published anywhere. Perhaps they could be
accomodated at Wikibooks, but since I have very little involvement with
that project I cannot speak for them.
In this case I would tend to interpret the submission of the thesis to
the appropriate university authorities as a form of prior publication.
Including the thesis will leave it subject to the FDL rules for
copyright purposes. The submission should include enough information to
legally identify you as the owner of the copyright so that we know that
you have the authority to release the text under a free distribution
licence.
Ec
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