[Foundation-l] Wiki translations of Greek and Roman texts

[Yann Forget]

Le Thursday 14 October 2004 19:46, Delirium a écrit :
> Viktor Horvath wrote:
> >Could it be possible to set up a Wiki containing some
> >Latin/Greek/Arabian/whatever philosophy (or other content) whose copyright
> >has expired for a long time - be it by typing in old editions or by taking
> >over some Gutenberg content - and displaying it one paragraph per page,
> >giving the viewer the possibility to translate it into his native
> > language? I guess some specific features would be helpful, such as
> > allowing two translations in the same language to coexist (call them
> > "English version, showing John's translations where possible" and the
> > same thing for Jim), as there will never be "the one correct version". In
> > addition, it would be nice to create a bilingual PDF for printing.

Yes, that's a great idea.

> This sounds great to me.  Would this be acceptable at wikisource without
> starting a fully new project?  I know the original source texts would
> be, but are original translations okay, or is that project strictly for
> verbatim source texts?

Of course translations are accepted.

> A related project that's been mentioned on this list is support for
> annotations (a footnote-like system), which I think any translation
> project would need---there are often nuances and controversies in
> translation that can't be fully resolved in the text, but should be
> noted for those who are interested (and there are likely to be so many
> that they need to be noted as attachments to the text like footnotes,
> not scattered on the talk page).

There is no possibility to have footnotes now in MediaWiki like it exists in 
LaTeX. That would be a must for this kind of texts.

> -Mark

Regards,
Yann
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