[Foundation-l] Wikisource as a repository for thesis

Wed Oct 13 15:56:33 UTC 2004

Le Wednesday 13 October 2004 16:24, rfrangi at coopetition.it a écrit :
> I dont'know if the subject has been already debated in the past, but we are
> going to publish on wikisource a thesis written by a fellow wikipedian who
> graduated last week in sociology. The nice thing about this is that the
> thesis is ON wikipedia (specifically the italian edition).
>
> Since we haven't found any other thesis published on wikisource, we asked
> ourselves if a thesis can be published there. On
> http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:What_is_Wikisource%3F is stated that
> "Original writings by a Wikipedia contributor are excluded" (but given the
> subject of the thesis we think everyone will close an eye). Still a thesis
> is a document, that has a certain degree of academic recognition.
>
> The question is: wouldn't be nice (and useful) if wikisource could work
> also as a repository for thesis?

Yes, IMO, this kind is document has its place in Wikisource.

> Snowdog.

Yann
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