[Foundation-l] wikinews and other stuff

Fri Oct 15 21:05:40 UTC 2004

IMHO the overlap between Commons and Source mainly concerns text 
documents. And IIRC Source started out as a text repository while 
Commons started out as an image repository. Then Commons somehow grew 
into an "all kinds of shared files"-thing, hence the present overlap.

</my2cents>

-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
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On 15 Oct 2004, at 22:54, Delirium wrote:

> Erik Moeller wrote:
>
>>> secondly, What the hell is the difference between wikicommons and
>>> wikisource? They both seem to me to be depositories for pd/gfdl
>>> primary sources.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, which is why I initially proposed Wikimedia Commons to include
>> what is currently on Wikisource. I still think the two should be 
>> merged.
>>
> I see Wikimedia Commons as being more of a repository, while 
> Wikisource is more of a general text-document-oriented site that isn't 
> merely a dumping ground for documents, but also organizes them, 
> translates them, annotates them, and so on.  It's not clear how the 
> proposed translation project would fit in at the Commons, for example.
>
> (I could be misinterpreting what the Commons is supposed to be.)
>
> -Mark
>
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