--- nyanatusita <nyanatusita@...> skrev:

> Dear all,
> I would appreciate feedback about creating a Pali
> Tipitaka and Pali
> Literature Wikipedia like webspace. The aim would be
> to finish off
> proofreading the largely unproofread digital
> Buddhajayanthi (now
> available on the Metta Lanka and Journal of Buddhist
> Ethics website) and
> creating a new completely free and
> uninstitutionalised Pali Tipitaka and
> Pali Literature Wiki-space out of it by
> incorporating all the readings
> from all available editions of Pali works and
> manuscripts. Other
> digitalised Pali works, translations, etc, could
> also be incorporated.

Do you intend translations into English only, or
primarily, or would you like this project to be as
polyglott as the Wikipedia itself?

> It will need to be a moderated Wikipedia though.

Seems reasonable. Whoever wishes to wage a editor's
war can do so in the original Wikipedia.

> Ven. Mettavihari, who
> is the organiser of the Buddhajayanthi digital
> Tipitaka edition, is
> willing to provide the digital Buddhajayanthi and a
> separate webspace
> for this purpose on the condition that it will be a
> moderated Wikepedia.
> Qualified scholars will need to oversee the input of
> readings and texts
> and see to it that the texts will not be meddled
> with in the wrong way
> as apparently happens in some Wikipedias.

Very good.

Gunnar

PS As you live in Kandy, are you perhaps connected
with the Buddhist Publication Society? I didn't see
your name in its latest newsletter.

gunnargallmo@...