Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> writes:
One of the key advantages of the wiki way is that
it draws more people
into the ranks of the knowledgeable. Binding ourselves to
state-of-the-art technology may only result in creating a new elite. If
we set about destroying the ivory tower it should not be with the sole
purpose of using the debris as a foundation for a new one.
The wiki syntax is not good enough for long-term storage of books and
other sources. Okay, that's my very personal opinion, but that's the
reason why I don't want to spend a second on wikisource in its current
incarnation. Wait, more or less by accident I proposed a copyright
protected poem for deletion - it is still accessible here at
http://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Der_Mond_...&oldid=37693
I followed your link and found nothing there to indicate that any kind
of deletion proposal had been made. Apart from Zhaladshar and me nobody
else seems to pay any sort of attention to that potential problem.
Neither of us are German speaking, so without some kind of alert the
likelihood that we would have spotted the problem is small. An
anonymous blanking of the article with a brief mention on the summary
line is not likely to be noticed. Now that I know about it I can do
something.
This incident gives weight to my view that there should not be a
separate de:wikisource.
It's really too early to say that the Wiki syntax is not adequate for
books. For sure the potential is there for vandals to make stupid
changes to an author's text, but that's not happening. On the other
hand the potential for creating annotations and translations is also
very important, and I look forward to the day when this can be done more
easily.
Ec