bill jenness wrote:
I think the way to go is to have a pg wiki linked to the catalog page where the users could input reviews, literary commentary, author biographical details, and etc.
I think you underestimate the maintenance work that goes into a wiki. Please go over to Wikipedia and read the Talk pages for some controversial topic, eg. Israel vs. Islamic World. Or read the vote pages where competing groups try to get the other group's pages removed by vote. I sure don't want to spend my day inside the wiki admin page for "The Koran" or "The Communist Manifesto" other works with high controversial potential.
This would allow DP and other producers to concentrate on producing and not get bogged down with researching extraneous useful facts.
Do you know for a fact that they are bogged down?
I am certain there are some open source wikis available that could be adapted. Perhaps the documentation side could be set up as a separate foundation.
Go ahead. Get your wiki started. If you reach critical mass we'll implement links from the bibrec pages to your wiki. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org