Re: [Wikimedia-l] A five-minute task new volunteers can do

2013-12-03 Thread David Cuenca
Good to know that Commons is developing its own mini-Wikisource :)

Cheers,
Micru

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote:

 I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:


 http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text/

 transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones
 or signposts.

 Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially
 outside the existing Wikimedia community

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A five-minute task new volunteers can do

2013-12-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Great idea! Will share this.

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On Dec 3, 2013 9:25 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Good to know that Commons is developing its own mini-Wikisource :)

 Cheers,
 Micru

 On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
 wrote:

  I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:
 
 
 
 http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text/
 
  transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones
  or signposts.
 
  Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially
  outside the existing Wikimedia community
 
  --
  Andy Mabbett
  @pigsonthewing
  http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A five-minute task new volunteers can do

2013-12-03 Thread Vishnu

Great idea!! Will circulate it  :)

In India we have recently attempted translating the Malayalam Wikimedia 
11th Anniversary banner into various Indian languages using FB.  Here is 
the work-in-progress


https://www.facebook.com/sajsugeesh/media_set?set=a.692345024117024.1073741835.10245984739type=1

For me this was a useful experiment in trying to harness social media 
time for Wikimedia purposes. Not sure if it is (technically) possible to 
explore this linkage for something like the commons transcribe or 
translatewiki.net.


Cheers,
Vishnu


On Tuesday 03 December 2013 08:50 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:

I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:


http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text/

transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones
or signposts.

Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially
outside the existing Wikimedia community




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