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NOTE: The views expressed are those of the various authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of OrthodoxSource.

OrthodoxSource is an OrthodoxWiki project to create a growing free content library of source texts, as well as translations of source texts in any language.

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[edit] What do we include and exclude at OrthodoxSource?

Some things we include are:

  1. w:Source texts previously published by any author
  2. w:Translations of original texts
  3. Historical documents of national or international interest
  4. w:Bibliographies of authors whose works are in OrthodoxSource

Contributions are not limited to this list, of course. Some basic criteria for texts excluded from OrthodoxSource are:

  1. w:Copyright infringements
  2. Original writings by a contributor to the project
  3. Encyclopedia-like articles
  4. w:Mathematical data, formulas, and tables
  5. w:Source code for computers
  6. w:Statistical source data

These are the basics and most obvious. There may be other things excluded by policy or convention. For more information, please see:

[edit] Languages and translations

OrthodoxSource intends to become a multilingual project. Texts and translations of texts are welcome in all languages at the appropriate subdomains and at the general orthodoxwiki.org wiki. This wiki is for:

  • Source texs originally in English
  • English translations of source texts in other languages
  • Parallel source with translations into English.

It is important to link and classify texts and translations so that they will be as accessible as possible to everybody. For information on languages and translations, please see:

[edit] OrthodoxSource and other Orthodox Wikimedia projects

[edit] OrthodoxSource or OrthodoxWiki?

While OrthodoxWiki is an encyclopedia, OrthodoxSource is a library. OrthodoxWiki contains articles about books, while OrthodoxSource includes the book itself. To some extend both may include bibliographical material about the author.

[edit] OrthodoxSource or OrthodoxBooks?

The distinction between these two projects is as follows:

  • OrthodoxSource focuses on material published elsewhere. OrthodoxSource can be viewed as a library of public domain works.
  • OrthodoxBooks are instructional materials written by the contributors themselves (eg. study guides, classroom textbooks, and annotated texts for classroom use).

The area of annnotations to source texts is a gray area, with some legitimate overlap between OrthodoxSource and OrthodoxBooks. For guidelines on this, see the information pages on the topic at both projects:

[edit] Protecting pages

The wiki pages on most Orthodoxwiki projects are designed to evolve forever.

By contrast, OrthodoSource is a library of static texts that have already been published elsewhere. In many or most cases, these texts are not meant to change and evolve, and it would deeply hurt their integrity if they did! Therefore, OrthodoxSource has adopted a policy of noting text quality and "protecting" pages from editing once they are thought to be correctly formatted and error-free. Comments about needed changes or corrections can always be made on the talk page and if necessary the page can be unprotected.

In this way, OrthodoxSource is more similar to OrthodoxNews, which "protects" the pages in its news archives for historical integrity.

For more information, please see:

[edit] NPOV

Neutral Point of View is a major policy rule applicable to all projects in the Wikimedia family. There is no need for the original texts themselves to reflect a NPOV. As long as we are faithfully reproducing them, and crediting them we are not in violation of NPOV. Nevertheless, putting emphasis on certain parts of the text, or reproducing only certain parts of the text could be seen as acts that express a particular point of view.

Introductory and other explanatory material should always be written with NPOV in mind.

[edit] Copyrights

Copyright rules apply to OrthodoxSource as much as to any other OrthodoxWiki projects, so they must be kept in mind. For a thorough treatment of copyright, please see:

[edit] See also:

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