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The hard
question
, I guess, is why we are
reinventing the wheel
, when
Project Gutenberg
already exists? We'd want to complement Project Gutenberg--how, exactly? ~
Larry Sanger
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[W]e don't want to try to duplicate
Project Gutenberg
efforts; rather, we want to complement them. Perhaps Project Sourceberg can mainly work as an interface for easily linking from Wikipedia to a Project Gutenberg file, and as an interface for people to easily submit new work to PG. ~ The Cunctator
It would be to
Project Gutenberg
what
Wikipedia
is to
Nupedia
The Cunctator,
"Primary sources Pedia, or Project Sourceberg"
Wikipedia
, (2001-10-16).
[W]e don't want to try to duplicate
Project Gutenberg
's efforts; rather, we want to complement them. Perhaps Project Sourceberg can mainly work as an interface for easily linking from Wikipedia to a Project Gutenberg file, and as an interface for people to easily submit new work to PG.
The Cunctator,
"Primary sources Pedia, or Project Sourceberg"
Wikipedia
, (2001-10-16).
A few times a week, Alastair Haines, a
grad student
at the
Presbyterian Theological Centre
in
Sydney
, sits down with a
Greek
version of the
New Testament
and
translates
a bit of
Paul's first letter to the Corinthians
. Haines doesn't speak Greek, but he can read it. When he's done, he loads his work onto a
Wikipedia
page as part of the Wiki Bible Project, a take-all-comers effort launched in January to create "an original, open content translation of the Bible's source texts," which by most counts includes about 30,000 manuscripts. Along with Haines, who admits to signing up for duty as a way to put off finishing his dissertation, 21 others have answered Wikipedia's call to "claim a chapter!" The
eclectic
group includes a
liberal
Christian
living in the
United Arab Emirates
and a
Methodist
financial counselor
in
Texas
. Some claim to be formally trained in Biblical Hebrew and classical Greek; others, such as user John Kloosterman, admit to being "without qualifications of any kind." The project will take a few years to complete and require constant refinement, says John Vandenberg, one of project's main administrators. But "that is part of the beauty," he writes. "It's a laissez-faire translation."
But
Biblical scholars
see the potential for an inaccurate, bias-filled mess. "Democratization isn't necessarily good for scholarship," says
Bart Ehrman
, a professor of
religious studies
at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, who worked on the most recent translation of the
New Revised Standard Version
in 1988. "Those were the best Greek and
Hebrew
scholars in the country, and it took them 20 years."
Matthew Phillips,
"God's Word, According to Wikipedia"
Newsweek
, (June 14, 2008).
The hard
question
, I guess, is why we are
reinventing the wheel
, when
Project Gutenberg
already exists? We'd want to complement Project Gutenberg--how, exactly?
Larry Sanger
Wikipedia commentary/Project Sourceberg - Wikipedia "Primary sources Pedia, or Project Sourceberg"
Wikipedia
, (2001-10-17).
[L]ike Larry, I'm interested that we think it over to see what we can add to Project Gutenberg. It seems unlikely that primary sources should in general be editable by anyone -- I mean, Shakespeare is Shakespeare, unlike our commentary on his work, which is whatever we want it to be.
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia commentary/Project Sourceberg - Wikipedia "Primary sources Pedia, or Project Sourceberg"
Wikipedia
, (2001-10-17).
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