Wikisource should only be used for material that has already been published elsewhere, it sounds like what's being attempted here is original publishing.
One option may be simply to set up your own MediaWiki installation and host such material there. You can therefore set your own licencing rules for the content, and make your own rules about what is and is not allowed.
Cheers, Craig Franklin
On 5 January 2015 at 23:42, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
This sounds like a Wikisource idea - do we have any wikisourcerers who can give their thoughts?
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On 5 January 2015 at 13:30, Sucheta Ghoshal sucheta.ghoshal@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
A few of my friends and I have been planning to document the history of counterculture in Bengali art and literature. These friends are also working in that domain professionally, and have access to a huge
repository
of texts, images, and other relevant details that they are willing to
make
available digitally in the form of free contents. We wish to have the contents as wikis, and, pictures and video snippets that might be
involved
- as properly licensed free materials. Now, the concern is if there is
some
Wikimedia Project that would host contents that are based on such an enormous amount of original research. Wikipedia is certainly not the appropriate place. And, as there exist no earlier works on this
particular
domain on the internet, references would be negligible. I was thinking about Wikibooks, instead. I am not entirely sure if that fits either,
but I
assume it fits better than Wikipedia, at least. The last option is to
host
it ourselves with the MediaWiki setup, and I am considering it very much. But, the idea essentially is to make people edit and enrich it with as
much
inputs as possible. It would be really helpful, in that case, if it could be placed in one of the Wikimedia projects. Suggestions, of every kind, would be deeply appreciated.
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