Reunification of Wikisources

Hi Jane, hi Alex,

Yes, I agree with you that a centralized Wikisource would be quite
meaningful, specially now that projects like Wikidata have shown that it is
possible to have both localization and centralization living in harmony.
I know that Doug (cc'ed) did some experiments with this goal in mind, but I
have no idea how far he is now.
Apart from the technical challenge, it also worries me the social aspect.
Wikisourcerors from each Wikisource and have lived in isolation from each
other for a long time. How would be a reunification perceived by the
different communities? Would it be something wanted?

Andrea and me have the pending task of contacting the communities, so this
is something that we should bring up among other important topics (like the
creation of a Wikisource User Group:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Groups)

The OPW is a grant program for students similar to Google Summer of Code
focused on helping bring more female contributors to open source projects.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women
So yes, it is a gendergap project, but we can offer wikisource-related
projects as we did with GsoC.

David --Micru

PS: Some of those plates are quite scary... I love them :)