On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 03:32 PM, Erik Moeller
wrote:
Daniel-
Wikibooks is already more than just textbooks -
why can't Wikisource be
about more than just text?
It certainly can and should. Given the technical changes I've described
that would be necessary to integrate this into the other projects,
however, I would very much be in favor of also changing the name of the
project, which is a minor change in comparison.
Note that Wikisource is a very different project from the others.
We're not building an encyclopedia or a dictionary or any other kind
of book. It's just a repository of anything GFDL.
It's primarily a repository of public domain texts. Although it is
subject to GFDL rules, those texts form a very small part of its
contents. Non-text material is also very limited there. It's only
people seeking to dump embarasing material from Wikipedia that make it a
"repository of anything GFDL"
Personally, just like Encyclopedia Brittanica is a major competitor of
Wikipedia, I would see Wikisource as eventually becoming a competitor of
Project Sourceberg. Having all these other complications that others
want to add from the outside would only make that goal more difficult.
I don't see Peter's name among the registered users of Wikisource; I'll
take that as a reflection of how much he knows what he's saying.
Ec