Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource technical issues (was Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!)

2015-12-17 Thread Ilario Valdelli
The initiative is good also to train the community how to approach the tools' development. I think, and this is not a comment for Wikisource for it's a general comment, that a tool is not a simple piece of software running for a bunch of things. The name "tool" is correct because is something

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource technical issues (was Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!)

2015-12-17 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, while I know that this is not the solution to your problems, let me say that if you want a Wikisource focus area at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Jerusalem (31 March - 3 April), the time to decide this is now, and the place is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119703 On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource technical issues (was Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!)

2015-12-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Indeed :) When an environment does not have proper services set up, when there is no thought on how the resulting product is to be used, even those services are of no use. Wikisource and all its workflows is not the end product for instance. The end product is for people to read the works

[Wikimedia-l] Wikisource technical issues (was Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!)

2015-12-16 Thread Andrea Zanni
(splitting as per Richard request) > Question for the Wikisource folks: would Project Grants be a way to get > resources for you? If you can design a project and find people with the > right skills, that avenue might be beneficial for you. I have a software > developer in mind who would probably