[Foundation-l] wikinews and other stuff

[Ray Saintonge]

Delirium wrote:

> Erik Moeller wrote:
>
>>> secondly, What the hell is the difference between wikicommons and
>>> wikisource? They both seem to me to be depositories for pd/gfdl
>>> primary sources.
>>
>> Yes, which is why I initially proposed Wikimedia Commons to include
>> what is currently on Wikisource. I still think the two should be merged.
>
> I see Wikimedia Commons as being more of a repository, while 
> Wikisource is more of a general text-document-oriented site that isn't 
> merely a dumping ground for documents, but also organizes them, 
> translates them, annotates them, and so on.  It's not clear how the 
> proposed translation project would fit in at the Commons, for example.
>
> -Mark

My vision coincides more with Mark's on this.  Texts are handled 
diferently from the multimedia material that I would expect to find in 
the Commons.  Illustrations are relatively uneditable.

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