Re: [Wikisource-l] Importing books from Project Gutenberg

2016-10-15 Thread Sam Wilson
That's a really good point Anika, I'd not considered that having PG books could be detrimental to Wikisource! :-( I guess the reverse could also be true? That Google might think that PG is a mirror of WS, and decrease PG's page-rank. Either way, not great. How can I investigate whether this

Re: [Wikisource-l] Importing books from Project Gutenberg

2016-10-14 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
Hi Sam, Good idea ! For me, the Wikidata linking part seems (maybe the most) important. That's a great tools to visualise that most books are badly put in Wikidata (so much P1957 missing!). The importing from PG part seems important too (but for fr.ws - IIRC - we already have most of PG works).

Re: [Wikisource-l] Importing books from Project Gutenberg

2016-10-14 Thread Jan Berkel
> Anyway, just thought I'd mention it. :-) Anyone think this is an > avenue worth exploring? Certainly I'd love to be able to say we've got > everything PG has *and more*! Hello Sam, great idea, moving texts over to WS is definitely worth doing in my opinion. The text can be changed /

Re: [Wikisource-l] Importing books from Project Gutenberg

2016-10-14 Thread Anika Born
corr1: [...] does not ha*ve*/show the scans, [...] Anika 2016-10-14 8:18 GMT+02:00 Anika Born : > Hy Sam, > > would be good, cause PG does not hat/show the scans, > > But > > as I remember there was/is a policy at de.ws to not use texts from other > projects (say: if

Re: [Wikisource-l] Importing books from Project Gutenberg

2016-10-14 Thread Anika Born
Hy Sam, would be good, cause PG does not hat/show the scans, But as I remember there was/is a policy at de.ws to not use texts from other projects (say: if there is text A in PG, there won't be a similar text A in de.WS), cause at the time de.WS did use PG-texts... Google said WS is a mirror