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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
  • To: Samuel Klein <meta.sj AT gmail.com>, Kẏra <kxra AT riseup.net>
  • Cc: "AcaWiki general \(listserv\)" <acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] Expanding scope?
  • Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:30:45 -0800

On 11/16/2014 12:00 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> What would the broader scope be? Any work anyone felt like
> summarizing? Any work that would qualify for having an item in wikidata?
>
>> I think any work that people feel like summarizing would be fine, with
> a focus > on published books, articles (academic, news, etc.), and other
> written works.
>
> I like this idea. "Free summaries of published works" would be a fine
> scope. Once you start summarizing other notes pages, you may have gone
> too far; but you could set up a namespace that allowed that in theory
> without collision.

I'm for it.

If anyone would like to experiment with summarizing other types of
published works, or edit on-wiki documentation to suggest this, please
go ahead!

Mike





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