Hi, Just my 2 cents.
2016-10-31 10:09 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>: > Hi Satdeep and Langcom, > > I'm actually a bit reluctant at this point, but this can be fixed quite > easily. Let me explain. > > As a lot of people probably know, I have a lot of respect remarkably > active Punjabi Wikipedia community. I do, however, see two problems with > the activity of the test Wikisource, as analyzed at > https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php? > cat=1&title=ਪੰਜਾਬੀ&wiki=sourceswiki . > > One is that it's a bit low in general. October 2016 is the first month > with four active users, and earlier there were even less. > That's a good point but Wikisources have naturally a low number of users and it's not really a bad thing. The other is that the user who made the most edits appears to have only > used OCR without actually correcting the OCRed text. Look at these pages: > https://wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Julius_Ceasuer_Punjabi_ > Translation_by_HS_Gill.pdf/156 > https://wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Julius_Ceasuer_Punjabi_ > Translation_by_HS_Gill.pdf/143 > > The original scanned page looks like a typical theater play with character > names before a colon ("ਮੈਸਾਲਾ-:", "ਮੈਸਾਲਾ-:") and the main text in another > column after the colon. OCR appears to have put all the names in the > beginning of the page and all of the main text after them. Clicking the OCR > button is too easy—I'd expect the editor to move the parts of the page > around and format them correctly. > > Community activity and sustainability is the biggest issue in new and > small Wikimedia projects, and I'd love to see more meaningful contributions > and understanding of the Wikisource editing model before fully approving. > That is a less good point. OCR is a good and meaningful contribution. Most contributions on *all* wikisource is OCR (for the Wikisource who use the proofread system obviously). OCR is not enough in itself but it's a needed, mandatory, primordial, etc. first step. Improvements is obvioulsy to be expected but please don't dismiss this first step. > As I noted above, both problems are easily fixable. I'm sure that the > Punjabi community can address them in just a couple of months. I'll be > happy to look at the activity again then. > > Thanks for understanding! :) > Thank you too. I hear and understand your concerns, my point is : the wikisources dynamics is different from the wikipedias dynamics and I think you misjudge a little bit how the wikisources work. to: Satdeep, don't hesitate to contact me in private if you need help ;) Cdlt, ~nicolas
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