[Wikipedia-l] Proposal: commons.wikimedia.org

[Ray Saintonge]

Peter Jaros wrote:

> On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 03:32 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>
>> Daniel-
>>
>>> Wikibooks is already more than just textbooks - why can't Wikisource be
>>> about more than just text?
>>
>> It certainly can and should. Given the technical changes I've described
>> that would be necessary to integrate this into the other projects,
>> however, I would very much be in favor of also changing the name of the
>> project, which is a minor change in comparison.
>
> Note that Wikisource is a very different project from the others.  
> We're not building an encyclopedia or a dictionary or any other kind 
> of book.  It's just a repository of anything GFDL. 

It's primarily a repository of public domain texts.  Although it is 
subject to GFDL rules, those texts form a very small part of its 
contents.  Non-text material is also very limited there.  It's only 
people seeking to dump embarasing material from Wikipedia that make it a 
"repository of anything GFDL"

Personally, just like Encyclopedia Brittanica is a major competitor of 
Wikipedia, I would see Wikisource as eventually becoming a competitor of 
Project Sourceberg.  Having all these other complications that others 
want to add from the outside would only make that goal more difficult.

I don't see Peter's name among the registered users of Wikisource; I'll 
take that as a reflection of how much he knows what he's saying.

Ec