Quite a few of Victor Hguo's works are at Victor Hugo central, perhaps someone can attempt to get permisssion to psot them here? http://www.gavroche.org/vhugo/--Gary123 17:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- Although they list the translators they do not list dates or sources so it will take further research before we can pull anything from there. But better than no leads at all on some of these works. Thanks for pointing that site out.--BirgitteSB 22:58, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
- Everything at Victor Hugo Central which doesn't have a date have been taken from Project Gutenberg, or been typed in from 19th Century, or pre-1920 collections. I've been careful to avoid translations potentially under copyright. (There are some links that take you to translations off-site and some of those are modern translations) I'll provide sources if necessary, and work at transferring some of it myself to these pages. --Gavroche 17:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC) (Webmaster of gavroche.org)
We should start transfering any of Hugo's works at the project Gutenberg to wikisource. http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Victor+Hugo Also if anyone has a hard copy of the late 19th century early 20th c "Works of Victor Hugo" series that would be of great use transfering to wikisource especially since most of them will be lost within a few years and english translations of Hugo's more obscure works will become harder and harder for lay readers to find.--Gary123 15:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- I've begun typing in William Shakespeare from one of those collections. I've begun entering it on my site - http://gavroche.org/vhugo/shakespeare/ - but when I'm done I'll move it here. It could take awhile. Especially if I get distracted by other projects. --Gavroche 05:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
The link next to Les Miserables to an uncreated page for the musical perhaps should be removed. We will have to wait a sufficiently long time (90 years after its creation I think?) for the musical to enter the public domain. Perhaps linking it to the Wikipedia article instead? --Gavroche 00:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Regarding the Public Domain notice at the bottom...it's not entirely true. The original French works are in the public domain due to the author being dead for over 100 years. But the template implies that all translations are public domain for this reason, and that isn't the case. I'm not questioning a particular translation -- I'm only questioning the appropriateness of including this template notice since it might be misleading. Gavroche 23:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Archive.org edit
Most of Victor Hugo's works are available for free from archive.org http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=victor%20hugo%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts --Gary123 19:27, 9 March 2008 (UTC)