Toby wrote:
It is news to me that Wikibooks wants to have
/unedited/ sources; I know that Wikibooks wants
to have /annotated/ sources,
I'm of the opinion that importing the unannotated source will encourage
annotation much more than not having the source text on the wiki at all. It's
a bit hard to annotate something that is not there yet! If we expect each
Wikibooks source module to have annotation on it /before/ it is imported,
then I don't think much of anything will get imported. Thus nothing will get
annotated.
I don't see a problem with having many source texts go unannotated for a long
time; they will get annotated eventually.
but since Wikipedia wants to have the very
same thing, I don't think that storing original
sources in Wikibooks is the right thing.
Why not? A Wikipedia article can just point to the Wikibooks source text. An
added plus is that the Wikibooks version of the text would have or at least
plans to have annotation. As more people read it, more people will add
annotation which makes the source text more and more useful. Pointing people
to a version of the text on Wikisourse that cannot be annotated, will prevent
them from adding value to the source text via annotation. Why not just point
them to a place that welcomes annotation?
On Wikisource, they can be made use of by
any other project, Wikibook /and/ Wikipedia
(and even Wiktionary if it likes, although in that
case I can't imagine why it would want them).
Why is a separate project needed for this?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)