Wikiversity allows original research: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Original_research
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Tim Davenport <shoehu...@gmail.com> wrote: > My suggestion to Sucheta would be to start a website dedicated to the > mission, to "first publish" there with appropriate free licensing, and to > gradually port over material from there to WP on an topic-by-topic basis, > assuming there is also scholarly literature on the topics being covered. > > It would also help to submit this documentary and historical website to > scholarly review to better establish the work done there as academically > reliable. Many of the academic journals include a "website reviews" section > in the book reviews section these days. > > In short: first go off-wiki to systematize and write. Then document your > work as reliable. Then integrate your work with the scholarly work of > others and port over piece-by-piece to WP. > > My two cents... > > Tim Davenport > "Carrite" on WP > Corvallis, OR > > > > > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 19:00:03 +0530 > From: Sucheta Ghoshal <sucheta.ghos...@gmail.com> > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Is there some Wikimedia project to host > contents based on original research? > Message-ID: > <CAF5rHFfSORaOBed= > zvi+docgkn4irp4faeomzygxlqtg6yf...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi all, > > A few of my friends and I have been planning to document the history of > counterculture in Bengali art and literature. These friends are also > working in that domain professionally, and have access to a huge repository > of texts, images, and other relevant details that they are willing to make > available digitally in the form of free contents. We wish to have the > contents as wikis, and, pictures and video snippets that might be involved > - as properly licensed free materials. Now, the concern is if there is some > Wikimedia Project that would host contents that are based on such an > enormous amount of original research. Wikipedia is certainly not the > appropriate place. And, as there exist no earlier works on this particular > domain on the internet, references would be negligible. I was thinking > about Wikibooks, instead. I am not entirely sure if that fits either, but I > assume it fits better than Wikipedia, at least. The last option is to host > it ourselves with the MediaWiki setup, and I am considering it very much. > But, the idea essentially is to make people edit and enrich it with as much > inputs as possible. It would be really helpful, in that case, if it could > be placed in one of the Wikimedia projects. Suggestions, of every kind, > would be deeply appreciated. > > Best, > Sucheta > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Find me at: personal blog http://IaskQuestions.com ********************************************************************************************** This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Diese eMail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese eMail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. ********************************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
