[Wikipedia-l] AW: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Source texts

[Imran Ghory]

On 18 Apr 2002, at 9:07, magnus.manske at epost.de wrote:

> >> Why would we be doing this project at all if we didn't think
> >> that Wikipedia will be around longer than other sites, and that we
> >> will be able to present texts in a superior way?  Project
> >> Gutenberg, for example, suffers from the problem that its texts are
> >> ancient ASCII. We can already do a bit better, because we can
> >> include images from the original, original italics, etc. Ours are
> >> also searchable, and we can include links to commentary.
> >
> >While I agree that Gutenberg could use some updating, I disagree on
> >Wikipedia involvment. This is really for another project, and one
> >that probably doesn't use wiki but some other system such as Zend
> >which is more easily regulated. 
> 
> IMHO such a project *could* work with the wiki system, especially for
> OCRed pages that need manual work. This could be done by a community
> rather than by a single person, especially if, e.g., a book is broken
> into chapters taht can be edited seperately. 

It's already been done without a wiki see,

http://charlz.dns2go.com/gutenberg/

Imran