Yes, I will contact Spanish wikisource. Regards. 2012/1/7 Pete Forsyth <[email protected]>
> Hi Emijrp, > > Looks like a great find! > > It seems to me that transcribing these volumes onto Wikisource would be a > great step toward getting them used as sources for Wikipedia articles. In > case you (or somebody else on the list) are not familiar with Wikisource, > it's basically a place where you can: > * start with scanned books (like those you linked below) > * transcribe them (using a combination of Optical Character Recognition > and manual transcription) > * match up the transcribed pages with the scanned images (for an example, > see: > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AEnglish_Caricaturists_and_Graphic_Humourists_of_the_nineteenth_century.djvu/56) > > The advantages are many, but here are a few: > * Once a book is transcribed, it's easy to use a tool like > translate.google.com to get a rough translation into another language > * It's possible to use wikilinks to Wikipedia articles, Wiktionary > definitioins, etc. to add context > * It's possible to make small readability/usability improvements on the > original, like neatly aligned bullet lists, linkable footnotes, etc. > > So, it might be interesting to start transcribing one of these volumes to > Wikisource as a first step toward using them in Wikipedia. There are some > very sophisticated tools that automate a lot of the process; I'm not a > great expert myself, but if you'd like, I could see if there's a Spanish > speaker who could guide you through the process of uploading these to > Spanish Wikisource. > > -Pete > [[User:Peteforsyth]] on English Wikipedia, Wikisource, etc. > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:39 AM, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ...with biographies about females, 3 volumes: >> >> - Volume 1: http://books.google.es/books?id=zhxCuOr0gREC&pg=PR3&hl=es >> - Volume 2: >> >> http://books.google.es/books?id=VBZt5xlN4L0C&printsec=frontcover&hl=es&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0 >> - Volume 3: >> >> http://books.google.es/books?id=ETgBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=es&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0 >> >> Perhaps it deserves an entry here >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MISSING >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gendergap mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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