[Wikisource-l] help needed searching for pagescans and front covers

[Yann Forget]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> LaosLos wrote:
> 
>> Why are there people who think that Wikisource is not related to 
>> the act of creating something? that is, why WS is not "like a 
>> publisher that prints a new edition", even when we are 
>> publishing a new encyclopaedia, new textbooks, a new quote 
>> database, new images... ?
> 
> Could you please stay focused on Wikisource.  What exactly is 
> intended to be "created" in Wikisource?  The whole purpose of 
> Wikisource is to present source texts, as they were written.  
> It's not really up to us to modify that content, is it?

Well, I think this discussion is right on the subject.

Wikisource may not "create" something, but I think that it could rightly 
be argued that Wikisource publishes texts, even if these texts already 
existed before being published in Wikisource.

Regards,

Yann
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