Wikisource and the Scholarly Book
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https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2012v3n4a58Keywords:
Reading tools, Interface, Layout, AnnotationsAbstract
Wikisource, a project of the Wikimedia foundation, is a growing online library aiming to provide well-edited texts thanks to an army of volunteers. In this paper, I try to assess the strengths of this project as well as its shortcomings and I make some suggestions that, if adopted, would make Wikisource the ultimate platform for reading and editing scholarly books.Published
2013-04-15
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