Given that there are organisations already organised, funded and
operating to preserve and promote open-access research, we might want
to think about focusing on getting deep interoperability with them,
rather than sucking all the content into Wikisource, where we can't
provide half the functionality that they can.

cheers
stuart
--
...let us be heard from red core to black sky

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 09:47, Timothy Wood <timothyjosephw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This looks like a job for Wikisource. If nothing else, so long as we can
> verify their CC licensing is compatible, we can archive and preserve them
> in perpetuity on WS. Unfortunately I've scarcely contributed to WS
> personally. I've reached out to a WS admin that I know from Commons. When
> they reply I'll cc them on this thread.
>
> V/r
> TJW/GMG
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 4:47 PM Alexandre Hocquet <
> alexandre.hocq...@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
>
> > On 17/04/2019 22:36, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 08:29, Alexandre Hocquet wrote:
> > >> what? then a lot of wikipedia
> > >> articles should be labelled as {{secondary sources needed}})
> > > Exactly. Sourcing as a whole across wikipedia already relies too
> > > heavily on primary sources. I regularly tag articles as such.
> >
> > Well, fair enough then. Good luck for your crusade, and thanks for your
> > interesting views about what constitutes primary, secondary and
> > tertiary. I guess I now have an answer about how much sympathy my
> > suggestion would bring.
> >
> >
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