Welsh at Wikisource

[Antony Green]

Finally, for those interested in Welsh:

(1) I have started work at English Wikisource on
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Welsh_Grammar,_Historical_and_Comparative,
the digitized text of John Morris Jones's "A Welsh Grammar" (Oxford, 1913).
The text is mostly just raw Optical Character Recognition at this point;
some proofreading and formatting has been done, but it's not yet in as
polished a state as the Irish and Gaelic works mentioned in my other
e-mails. Again, volunteer assistance is warmly welcomed!

(2) There is a Welsh Wikisource at http://cy.wikisource.org/. If anyone
would like to contribute previously published works written in Welsh that
are now in the public domain (in most cases, that means the author died
before 1940), this is the place to do it!

I suppose I should explain what Wikisource is for people who haven't heard
of it. Wikisource is a sister project of Wikipedia: whereas Wikipedia is a
free online encyclopedia, Wikisource is a free online collection of source
texts, rather like a library. Because of copyright concerns, though,
Wikisource can host only texts that are licensed freely or whose copyright
has expired. The ideal situation is this: scans of the text are uploaded to
Wikimedia Commons (the common image depository of the Wikimedia projects)
and then digitized versions of the text are made at Wikisource in comparison
with the scans. These digitized versions are then made freely available to
everyone for any purpose. All work is done by volunteers.

If you have any questions about Wikisource, don't hesitate to contact me!

Best,

Tonio Green
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Dr. Antony D. Green
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