Hello, AKB, We have a separate mailing list for Sanskrit Wikipedia, please join: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-l Let's discuss Bengali Wikipedia in this mailing list :)
On 1 December 2015 at 20:22, AKB <akb....@gmail.com> wrote: > What about Sanskrit India's first international language. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Bodhisattwa Mandal" <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> > Sent: 01-12-2015 20:04 > To: "Wikimedians in and from West Bengal, India" < > wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org>; "wikimediaindia-l" < > wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; "discussion list for Wikisource, > the free library" <wikisourc...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in > 2015community wishlist > > Hi, > > For a long time Indic languages Wikisource projects depended totally > on manual proofreading, which not only wasted a lot of time, but also > a lot of energy. Recently Google has released OCR software for more > than 20 Indic languages, along with other Asian languages. This > software is far far better and accurate than the previous OCRs. But it > has many limitations. Uploading the same large file two times (one > time for Google OCR and another at Commons) is not an easy solution > for most of the contributors, as Internet connection is way slow in > India. Now if we develop a tool which can feed the uploaded pdf or > djvu files of Commons directly to Google OCRs, so that uploading them > 2 times can be avoided. > > This was proposed in 2015 community wishlist. Now, as the voting > procedure for the wishlist has been started, the proposal needs your > support. Please follow the link- > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource#Tool_to_use_Google_OCRs_in_Indic_language_Wikisource > > FYI, this proposal was also accepted as a highest priority need at the > 2015 Wikisource Conference in Vienna. > (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs) > > Regards > -- > Bodhisattwa Mandal > Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia > > ''Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given > free access to the sum of all human knowledge.'' > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list > wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/20151201/b503f116/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list > wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb >
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