Thread:User talk:^demon/SacredText

Hi ^demon, over at Extension:SacredText it says, "Due to the size of the SQL scripts that add the scriptures to the database, they are kept on a different SVN repository." Given that WMF has no problem devoting resources to hosting the Holy Bible over at Wikisource (in many different languages, no less!), would it be possible to put that extension in the git repository along with its 5.1 MB bible_kjv_entire.sql? If we wanted to give other Scriptures equal treatment, that probably wouldn't take up too much additional space, because there are not a whole lot of religious texts whose copyrights have expired (the Satanic Bible, for instance, is still under copyright) and most (e.g. the Qu'ran and Book of Mormon) are significantly shorter than the Bible. There doesn't seem to have been much demand for including other Scriptures besides the KJV Bible anyway, although the extension was designed to allow for such expansions.

Probably the only books people would be wanting to use this extension for would be those that have been organized into chapters and verses. The most obvious example would be be sacred texts, although legal statutes could be another possibility, if it weren't for the fact that they change; this is more suited for texts that never need to be updated. That's what leads me to believe that even if it were desired to have an all-inclusive set of those static texts in the public domain that have been organized by chapter and verse, it would not take up much space.

Hmm, maybe the long term solution is to eventually have this populate its table by polling Wikidata. Leucosticte (talk) 01:54, 20 October 2012 (UTC)