2009/7/6 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: >> Is there anything that will show the same verse in several >> translations at once? That would be ideal - highly educational. That >> would require something less like wiki pages and more like a database >> at the other end. Or someone laboriously compiling wiki pages of the >> form en.wiki---.org/wiki/John/3/16 .
> The use of transclusion by section on Wikisource would make it > technically simple to bring the existing verses (or chapters) together > on pages for parallel reading. Of course it would be a lot of work ... > and I suppose it should be done chapter-wise. (Verses are at best a > convenience - chapter divisions have I think a wider acceptance, and are > at least historically older.) Indeed - and newer translations that use paragraphs, with the verse numbers as superscripts for historical reference. Technically however we do this won't be hard. So it's a matter of what bible scholars on Wikipedia and Wikisource think would present it best. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l