Re: [Wikisource-l] Technical wishlist

2015-11-10 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
I requested to get a tool so that Google OCR can be integrated with Indic language Wikisource projects. Bodhisattwa On 10 Nov 2015 19:38, "Alex Brollo" wrote: > I posted something about djvu files. > > Alex > > 2015-11-09 17:55 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni

Re: [Wikisource-l] Community Wishlist Survey and Wikisource

2015-12-16 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Thanks Andrea for your reply in Wikimedia-I thread. Thanks to all, who participated in the survey and voted for us. But the community wishlist survey for this year is over now and no Wikisource proposal succeeded to get a place in top 10, we are back to pavilion once again. Now, as we made

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2016-01-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ccessful >> 'free' OCR tool for Indic languages without any real luck until now. >> Until such a tool appears on the horizon, the Google facility is just >> okay to be used. >> >> Especially so, because we are anyway dealing with 'free' input and output >> mater

Re: [Wikisource-l] Template Wikipedia

2015-11-26 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
obias Schönberg" <tobias47...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Bodhisattwa Mandal > > bn-Wikisource does not seem to have a Template:Wikipedia: > > - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15632185 > > But Benghali Wikipedia seems to have 2 templates that link to WikiSour

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I failed to understand how splitting Wikisource projects in different languages had been a mistake and how that affected communities badly. As part of Bengali Wikisource community, I can only say, we are doing well and we don't want to return back to old multilingual Wikisource. Regards,

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, During the recent Wikisource Conference in Vienna, need for global gadgets, templates and module was discussed and already it has been reported in Phabricator ( https :// phabricator.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Template Wikipedia

2015-11-25 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Tobias, It will be great if you run the bot for Bengali Wikisource. Thanks, Bodhisattwa On 25 Nov 2015 00:27, "Ankry" wrote: > In many cases this relation may be not of 1-1 type. > Unless you connect disambig pages to Wikipedia in case of text variants. > Or if you have

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Nemo, Please follow this link also, http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/googles-optical-character-recognition-software-now-works-with-all-south-asian-languages Regards, Bodhisattwa On 1 Dec 2015 20:29, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote: > Thanks for posting about the topic. Which

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
, but I can say that Bengali is not included in FineReader version of IA. Regards, Bodhisattwa On 1 Dec 2015 20:57, "Bodhisattwa Mandal" <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nemo, > > Please follow this link also, > > > http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/googles-opti

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Nemo, Thanks for your interest. You can find the list of Google OCR supported languages in the following link - https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en Regards, Bodhisattwa Thanks for posting about the topic. Which indic languages are we talking about exactly? Are they included

[Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
://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

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
eresting this about "SaaSS": > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html > > So, to build a true, excellent and indipendent "wikisource multilingual > OCR service" would be a better solution. > > Alex > > 2015-12-01 16:06 GMT+01:

[Wikisource-l] Etherpad link of Wikisource Conference 2015

2015-11-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Please find below the etherpad link of the proceedings of Wikisource Conference 2015. https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015 Regards -- Bodhisattwa Mandal Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia ''Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum

Re: [Wikisource-l] Etherpad link of Wikisource Conference 2015

2015-11-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Please find below the etherpad link of the Wikisource Identity Discussion at Wikisource Conference 2015 https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015weekend Regards, Bodhisattwa Mandal > Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia > > ''Imagine a world in which every single person on t

Re: [Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi , Aubrey, I understand. Nemo, yeah, I was talking about a bot which can use the said IA upload tool. And no, its not so hard to use it manually. Just asking. No issues. :-) Regards, -- Bodhisattwa Mandal ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource

[Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Two questions- 1) Is there any bot running which can use the IA upload tool to transfer files from Internet Archive to Commons? I see lots and lots of public domain files in IA but they are not present in Commons. Its next to impossible to be done manually. 2) Is there any bot running,

Re: [Wikisource-l] BUB is back

2016-01-08 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
edia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> > > ___ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > -- Bodh

[Wikisource-l] Spoken Wikisource for Wikiradio

2016-06-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, As you all know, that we have Wikiradio with us, which transmits real-time audio service via the Internet as synchronized set of tracks. * https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio/ FYI, I have just started two new Spoken Wikisource specific stations to the radio. *

Re: [Wikisource-l] Spoken Wikisource for Wikiradio

2016-06-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
> > > And now > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/Spoken_Wikisource/fr > \o/ > (with a lot of poetry inside and a little bit of Nietzsche ; I'll add > other files when I'll have enough time) > > Cdlt, ~nicolas > > And also started the Bengali Wikisource station with a poem

Re: [Wikisource-l] Template help needed

2016-01-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Great. Thanks for the link. :-) Regards, Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Template help needed

2016-01-17 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I need a template solution for the following proof-reading problem I faced in Bengali Wikisource. There is a reference in Page 1 which is continued in Page 2. I have used the following code in Page 1:- Text of Page 1 reference and text of Page 2 reference It was okay while proof-reading,

Re: [Wikisource-l] Template help needed

2016-01-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
(s), as described > here: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Merging_two_texts_into_a_single_reference > > Ankry > > > ___ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wi

Re: [Wikisource-l] BUB is back

2016-02-09 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
The BUB queue is standing still for a quite a few days. Maintenance of those files have already been done in IA, but they are not removed from the queue, so, cant understand BUB is working or not. Regards, -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

[Wikisource-l] InterWikiTransclusion.js for Bengali Wikisource

2016-02-02 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I need help from admins of old WS, regarding the topic in the following link https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:InterWikiTransclusion.js#bn.wikisource It has been reported in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124295 Thanks, -- Bodhisattwa

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2016-02-19 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am happy to inform, that Shrinivasan has created a python script to >&

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2016-02-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
22, 2016 1:32 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bodhisattwa Mandal, 21/02/2016 17:13: > >> we don't have other options but to use the Google OCR tool. >> > > This is not true, of course. There is always an alternative, the question

Re: [Wikisource-l] Large djvu files from IA

2016-02-29 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ost of the time. I even once managed once to > upload a 300 MB file. If you need help, please give a list of files on > my Commons talk page. > > Regards, > > Yann > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann > > 2016-02-26 20:38 GMT+01:00 Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhi

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimania: Call for posters

2016-03-06 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, 2016-03-06 16:59 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni : > Of course I'll be there too. > An of course we should find a way, as always, to meet as wikisourcians in > Esino. > I'll be there, so at least there are 3 of us :-) > I will be there too. Thanks to the scholarship

Re: [Wikisource-l] Large djvu files from IA

2016-03-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
On 1 March 2016 at 18:44, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Link? > https://archive.org/details/bub_gal_ark_12148_bpt6k1040628d https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_lmhDcAAJ https://archive.org/details/bub_man_adee2c3832c5798abc76e7b65f62ef4e and many others. I have been

[Wikisource-l] Request for update tesseract-ben package at tool labs

2016-05-23 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Can anyone please update the tesseract-ben package at tool labs? Its a community need in Bengali Wikisource. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117711 Regards, -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Conference report

2016-05-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Thanks for your great effort, Andrea. This really gives hope to the global Wikisource community. Regards, Bodhisattwa On 3 May 2016 at 12:53, Alex Brollo wrote: > It's impressive to realize that it.source is a tiny community inside a > larger, but nevertheless "tiny

[Wikisource-l] WikiConference India 2016

2016-07-29 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Here is the final program schedule of upcoming WikiConference India 2016. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Programs There is a track for Wikisource on 6th August, where 5 Wikisourcers from 3 Indic communities will have their presentations and conduct workshops.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikistats 2.0 and Wikisource

2017-02-12 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Also Phe can be requested to provide book based stats considering only NS0 basepages and no subpages. Regards, Bodhisattwa Dear all, the WMF is creating a Wikistats 2.0, a new platform for visualizing stats about project. The idea is great, because better analytics means better knowledge of the

Re: [Wikisource-l] Community Tech new hire

2016-09-16 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Sam, Congratulations for joining the community tech team. And also many many thanks for what all you have done for the OCR issue of Indic Wikisource communities. It's because of amazing people like you, Kaldari and Shrinivasan, the crisis is almost over and the projects have got the

Re: [Wikisource-l] Good news about CropTool

2016-08-17 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Thanks a lot Alex, to make the necessary changes in javascript and help to deploy the gadget in Bengali Wikisource. You are awesome. Best Regards, Bodhisattwa On 16 August 2016 at 19:33, Alex Brollo wrote: > CropTool now can crop & uoload into Commons illustrations from

Re: [Wikisource-l] Eastern Punjabi Wikisource

2016-10-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Great news!! Its really good to see another language getting OCR support. Best of luck, Bodhisattwa On 28 October 2016 at 20:39, Satdeep Gill wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to share with immense pleasure that finally Google OCR has > started recognizing

[Wikisource-l] Bengali Wikisource 10th Anniversary Contest

2016-12-23 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, FYI, a 7-month long (January 1, 2017 - July 31, 2017). marathon proofreading contest has been organized on the occasion of 10th Anniversary of Bengali Wikisource. Event page - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/cal0 -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource hackathon and meetup in Wikimania

2017-08-11 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Any update about the meetup? On 5 August 2017 at 23:40, Jayanta Nath wrote: > See you all at Wikisource meetup/Sourcethon > > > Jayanta Nath > Indic Wikisource and Bengali Wikisource > > ___ > Wikisource-l mailing list >

Re: [Wikisource-l] QR Codes for Wikisource texts

2017-07-08 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
com> wrote: > >> In all of your discussion I have not undertood why someone should go to >> the library to have a qrcode while it is available online. >> >> Kind regards >> >> On 7 Jul 2017 07:22, "Bodhisattwa Mandal" <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> >&

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource hackathon and meetup in Wikimania

2017-07-27 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Will there be any Wikisource hackathon and meet-up during Wikimania 2017? -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource hackathon and meetup in Wikimania

2017-07-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
e hackathon/sourcethon so you are welcome to join me :-). > > We should also definitely plan a meetup during Wikimania. > > Cheers, > > Thomas > > [1] https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sourcethon > > > > Le 27 juil. 2017 à 21:22, Bodhisattwa Mandal < &g

[Wikisource-l] QR Codes for Wikisource texts

2017-07-06 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, Can we create a Wikisource specific QR code generator tool for the NS0 pages? People often forget the urls or sometimes doesn't know the way to search texts in Wikisource. If we can generate qr codes, that would also benefit libraries from remote places or readers who don't have

Re: [Wikisource-l] QR Codes for Wikisource texts

2017-07-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
lable online. > > Kind regards > > On 7 Jul 2017 07:22, "Bodhisattwa Mandal" <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> There has been significant decline in library readerships in India. >> Libraries are remaining almost empty througho

Re: [Wikisource-l] QR Codes for Wikisource texts

2017-07-06 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
> > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:32 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Can we create a Wikisource specific QR code generator tool for the NS0 >> pages? >> >> People often forget the urls or sometimes doesn't kno

[Wikisource-l] Stats

2017-07-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Just stumbled upon this link showing stats of different Wikisource projects. http://wikiscan.org/?menu=allsites=wikisource -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] A draft nsPage viewer

2017-06-14 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Wow! This is awesome!! Can you please help it localise for Bengali Wikisource? Thanks On 14 June 2017 at 11:32, Alex Brollo wrote: > Try this link: > > https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Indice:Collodi_-_Le_ > avventure_di_Pinocchio,_Bemporad,_1892.djvu?vis=true > > I hope,

[Wikisource-l] Need help

2017-06-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Is there a way to get a list of NS0 transcluded pages sorted according to the proofread quality status? Regards, ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Proofread status colour buttons

2017-09-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, The proofread status colour buttons in normal edit mode are not appearing in Wikisource projects for last few hours. Any idea, what's happening? ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikisource-l] Endangered Archives Program of British Library

2017-08-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, There is a huge collection of rare books in different languages at the Endangered Archives Program website of British Library. (http://eap.bl.uk/) 1. The books are split into pages 2. Almost every pages have a scale/ruler beside the scanned page, so we need to crop each and every page.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2018 - Registration closes in one month!

2017-12-16 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
>> Nicolas, Andrea or Bodhisattwa) and one new person who may be interested by >> the learning or partnership tracks. >> >> > In any case I would think interesting to have Bodhisattwa Mandal >> joining the party: that would allow to also give more voice to non-western &g

[Wikisource-l] Bengali Wikisource 10th Anniversary Celebration

2017-12-09 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Bengali Wikisource community is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in Kolkata, India today. The event page can be found here - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/fb0f The etherpad link is here - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/bnws10 -- Bodhisattwa ___

[Wikisource-l] উইকিসংকলন কর্মশালা, শিলচর

2018-04-26 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
সুধী, আগামী ১৮ই মে শিলচরের অসম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের বাংলা বিভাগের সহায়টায় উইকিসংকলনের একটি কর্মশালা অনুষ্ঠিত হবে। বিস্তারিত এখানে - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/fw5o পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ইউজার গ্রুপ এই কর্মশালার জন্য প্রয়োজনীয় খরচ বহন করছে। ধন্যবাদান্তে, বোধিসত্ত্ব

Re: [Wikisource-l] Carl Malamud is doing India

2018-04-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Where does he host the scanned documents? On 28 April 2018 at 22:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Nicolas VIGNERON, 28/04/2018 18:19: > >> Can we have the context here? I'm not sure to understand what this is >> about... >> > > Sorry, I thought you'd know him: >

Re: [Wikisource-l] wavy line

2018-01-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
For custom rule, you can use as many w|40 parameter as you like to get full length wave. Best, On 5 Jan 2018 10:30 pm, "balaji" wrote: Hi Alex, Thanks for the help. Cheers On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 10:23 PM, Alex Brollo wrote: > Let's try too

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikidata property for non-fiction characters

2018-04-06 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
owed for non-fiction or not? I am also finding difficulty to propose a name for the new property for non-fiction characters, shall it be ''Characters in non-fictions'' or is there any specific term for it? Help needed. On 6 April 2018 at 21:38, Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com&g

Re: [Wikisource-l] Do we have tools for offline collaboration?

2018-04-13 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
On 13 April 2018 at 15:03, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: > There is BUB https://tools.wmflabs.org/bub/ but only for certains > websites. > BUB is not working for more than a year. -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

[Wikisource-l] Wikidata property for non-fiction characters

2018-04-06 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, is there any Wikidata property for characters depicted in non-fiction literatures? I found Properties like characters (P674) for fictions, depicts (P180) for works like paintings, main subject (P921) for primary topic of a work, but couldn't find something for non-fictions. Am I missing

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikidata property for non-fiction characters

2018-04-06 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
/wiki/Property:P4649> >>- patron (P1962) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1962> >> >> I predominantly use P805 where it is a chapter, or biographical entry >> about a person, so if you can give more context >> >> -- Billinghurst >> >

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource meetup at WMCon

2018-04-17 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I hope there will be a Wikisource meetup at Wikimedia Conference 2018. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Thematic,_regional,_language-specific_meetups Regards, Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

[Wikisource-l] Translation namespaces

2018-04-24 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, The translation namespace pages needs to be linked with page numbers and source index files. Any idea how to do so? Regards, -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Translation namespaces

2018-04-25 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
side and NS:index at the top. On 25 April 2018 at 12:27, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Can you please give an example? > > בתאריך יום ד׳, 25 באפר׳ 2018, 08:39, מאת Bodhisattwa Mandal ‏< > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi, >> >&g

[Wikisource-l] 500 Internal Server Error for Google OCR button

2018-03-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Sam, The Google OCR button and the tool is giving 500 internal server error output from today, although the Cloud Vision API is working fine . We have reported in phabricator here

Re: [Wikisource-l] Content donation

2018-03-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
relatated works? > > Cheers > > Le 20/03/2018 à 19:23, Bodhisattwa Mandal a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, I am happy to announce > that Dr. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Ex-Vice chancellor of Assam University, > has kindly rel

[Wikisource-l] Content donation

2018-03-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, I am happy to announce that Dr. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Ex-Vice chancellor of Assam University, has kindly released copyright of 5 of his books under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The books are uploaded to Commons and are now in the hands of

Re: [Wikisource-l] Zero output for OCR using Google Drive API

2018-03-19 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Update: The OCR for Bengali using Google Drive API has stopped for pdf and djvu files, but for jpg it is ok till now. Shrini and Jayanta is rewriting and testing the OCR4Wikisource script to convert the files into jpg files. Looking forward, Bodhisattwa On 16 Mar 2018 10:16 am, "Jayanta Nath"

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource events calender

2018-03-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, We can now know about all current Wikisource events in a calendar format[1], thanks to the module developed by User:0x010C.[2] To add new events in the calender, please add these two lines to your common.js in meta. importScript( 'User:0x010C/Events-calendar-editor.js' ); importScript(

[Wikisource-l] Katherine says support will be provided to Wikisource

2018-11-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, At GLAMWikiConference, 2018, Katherine Maher said yesterday during her speech, that support will be provided to Wikisource by WMF. Check the link of Youtube video below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWsuDU1CMU

[Wikisource-l] Bengali Wikisource awareness campaign videos

2018-09-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
t proposer - Deepanjan Ghosh (Radio Mirchi Kolkata) * Cast - Sujan Ghosh, Suavo Mukherjee, Ritam Sarkar, Raja Chakravorty, Shrabanti Bhattacharya and Avinash * Bengali Wikisource team - Bodhisattwa Mandal, Hrishikes Sen, Mahir Morshed, Jayanta Nath * WMF liaison - Satdeep Gill (Thanks a lot, budd

Re: [Wikisource-l] Bengali Wikisource awareness campaign videos

2018-09-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g> * দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায় <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ebC4-bxhp8> (World at your doorstep) Thanks Abhinav for pointing that out. Many apologies, Bodhisattwa On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 09:07, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > > Hi all, > > [Sorry for no

Re: [Wikisource-l] Bengali Wikisource awareness campaign videos

2018-10-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Good point, but, I guess, books have the great power to forget the external world and make people dive into the pages within a short period of time. Sutanu can't resist it either. :-) On 1 Oct 2018 11:42 am, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote: Bodhisattwa Mandal, 01/10/2018 06:37: &g

[Wikisource-l] (no subject)

2018-09-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Suavo Mukherjee, Ritam Sarkar, Raja Chakravorty, Shrabanti Bhattacharya and Avinash - * Bengali Wikisource team - Bodhisattwa Mandal, Hrishikes Sen, Mahir Morshed, Jayanta Nath - * WMF liaison - Satdeep Gill (Thanks a lot, buddy!) It was a completely new experience for us, and we have learnt a l

Re: [Wikisource-l] (no subject)

2018-09-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g> * দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায় <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ebC4-bxhp8> (World at your doorstep) Thanks Abhinav for pointing that out. Many apologies, Bodhisattwa On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 09:29, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > Abhinav, > > Thanks for

Re: [Wikisource-l] (no subject)

2018-09-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ube.com/watch?v=IU3O9AC5Z3g> * দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায় <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ebC4-bxhp8> (World at your doorstep) Thanks Abhinav for pointing that out. Many apologies, Bodhisattwa On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 08:59, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > Hi all, > > We are happ

Re: [Wikisource-l] (no subject)

2018-10-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Sure, they are being shared from Bengali Wikisource twitter account and OpenGLAM is retweeting them with comments. :-) On 1 Oct 2018 9:13 pm, "scann" wrote: share the videos in the openglam account if you haven't yet :) congrats! El lun., 1 oct. 2018 11:40, Bodhisattwa Mandal

Re: [Wikisource-l] Selection of the representative to the Wikimedia Summit

2018-11-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Nicolas, Thanks for bringing this up. I have proposed the name of Bengali Wikisourcer Jayanta Nath from India. He is one of the most experienced Wikimedia volunteer from India and a dedicated Wikisourcer, who is helping grow Indic Wikisource projects in the spirit of language equity. My

[Wikisource-l] A new button for OCR

2018-11-24 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Jayprakash from IndicTechCom has developed a tool to OCR by using Google Drive API - https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-ocr/ The tool can be accessed in Wikisources by loading this js - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Indic-TechCom/Script/IndicOCR.js The tool was developed as Google OCR

[Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Summit report

2019-04-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, As the Wikimedia Summit 2019 ended recently, it would be great if the representative from Wikisource User Group can share his experience and submit a report. Regards Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] New data type: musical notation with Lilypond format

2019-03-15 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Forwarding to this mailing list for anyone working on musical notation while proofreading in Wikisource. -- Forwarded message - From: Shani Evenstein Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019, 01:48 Subject: Re: [Wikidata] New data type: musical notation with Lilypond format To: Discussion list for

Re: [Wikisource-l] Everything will be Wikipedia

2019-02-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ad.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Global_Wikipedia_and_Wikimedia_Brand_Research_Report.pdf > ), ahead of Wikidata and Commons. They do note that the high awareness > of Wikinews and Wikibooks is likely to be because they sound like > generic names of things. > > —Sam. > > On 2/8/19 11:19 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal w

[Wikisource-l] Everything will be Wikipedia

2019-02-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I have heard from a trusted source few months back that there are talks in WMF to rebrand all sister projects under the name Wikipedia. If that happens some day, Wikisource will be no more as it is and it will be called something like Wikipedia-source etc. The logic for this kind of step is

[Wikisource-l] Branding

2019-04-13 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I am interested to learn about the thoughts of the Wikisource community at large and the Wikisource user group about the new branding proposal? Will the user group provide any feedback in this proposal?

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Summit report

2019-06-15 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Sorry *almost 3 months On Sat, 15 Jun 2019, 14:20 Bodhisattwa Mandal, wrote: > Hi, > > It has been more than 3 months and there is no report or any update. Shall > we get any? > > Regards, > Bodhisattwa > > On Wed, 8 May 2019, 20:02 Bodhisattwa Mandal, > wrote: &

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Summit report

2019-06-15 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, It has been more than 3 months and there is no report or any update. Shall we get any? Regards, Bodhisattwa On Wed, 8 May 2019, 20:02 Bodhisattwa Mandal, wrote: > Any update ? > > Regards, > Bodhisattwa > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019, 11:41 Nicolas VIGNERON, > wrot

[Wikisource-l] Community conversation with Roles and Responsibilities working group

2019-04-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, As you all know that, the Wikimedia movement strategy working groups have started working on the final stage of the process i.e. building recommendations, which are supposed to be delivered by November

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Summit report

2019-05-08 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
: > >> Agreed >> >> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 11:57 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal < >> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> As the Wikimedia Summit 2019 ended recently, it would be great if the >>> representative from W

Re: [Wikisource-l] Deployment of the Wikisource extension

2019-12-12 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Thanks a lot, Tpt. You are super awesome as always. Best, Bodhisattwa On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, 04:37 Ruthven, wrote: > Thanks Thomas, a good news and a great job! > I already started applying it to it.source; e.g. > https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Orlando_furioso > > Cheers! > *Ruthven* on

[Wikisource-l] A new book reader/viewer is live for us!

2019-12-12 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi list, It was proposed in 2016 Community Wishlist to implement the open-source Internet Archive Book Reader in Commons and Wikisource (see this phab ticket ). A couple of days back, User:Jayprakash12345

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource at the Wikimedia Summit 2020

2019-12-13 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
t; There is some unrest among other affiliates, that they are not feeling >>>> the resource support from WMF. And that WMF does not collaborate well with >>>> others. >>>> (Which goes unmentioned in strategic plan) >>>> also you may need to don you

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource at the Wikimedia Summit 2020

2019-12-10 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Nicolas, In this summit, we need an experienced Wikisourcer who can strongly advocate for the project, so that the project and it's communities does not get left behind or forgotten during the implementation phase of strategy. This year, we need to send someone who can opine in the

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic-TechCom Oct-Dec 2019 Report

2020-01-25 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Sorry for cross-posting. Here are some new tools which might interest Wikisource community at large. Regards, Bodhisattwa -- Forwarded message - From: Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020, 02:12 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic-TechCom Oct-Dec 2019

[Wikisource-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

2020-03-14 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, It gives us immense pleasure to announce to the Wikimedia community that National Digital Library of India (NDLI), Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) have signed a tripartite non-binding

Re: [Wikisource-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

2020-03-14 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
al. I even found some bilingual books with Breton (mislabelled as > French) and I saw a lot of other minority languages! > > Do you already know what the next steps will be? Do you need help? > > Cheers, ~nicolas > > Le sam. 14 mars 2020 à 09:52, Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bo

Re: [Wikisource-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

2020-03-14 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
gt; Once we get their permission to publish in Wikimedia, we can publish >>> there under the correct copyright status (PD) and anybody can download >>> therefrom for any purpose. Reusers are not bound by their ToU. The >>> permission is to be not bound b

Re: [Wikisource-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

2020-03-14 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
D) and anybody can download >> therefrom for any purpose. Reusers are not bound by their ToU. The >> permission is to be not bound by their ToU limits, and is unrelated to >> copyright. >> >> Ankry >> >> >> On 14.03.2020 20:12, Asaf Bartov wrote: >> >> &g

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikimedia-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

2020-03-14 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
utenberg.org) or from World Ebook Library > (http://www.worldebooklibrary.org/) and they have their own licenses. > > It's not clear what is the library for whom the NDLI owns the copyrights > and they can donate. > > Kind regards > > On 14/03/2020 09:38, Bodhisattwa Man

Re: [Wikisource-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

2020-03-14 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
a lot of other minority languages! > > Do you already know what the next steps will be? Do you need help? > > Cheers, ~nicolas > > Le sam. 14 mars 2020 à 09:52, Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> Hi all, >> >> It gives us

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Making of a ScanBox - DIY Scanner

2020-04-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Shrini, This is awesome and cost-effective. We will try to build one after the lockdown ends in West Bengal for our user group. Thanks for building this, thoroughly documenting and sharing. Take care, Bodhisattwa On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 12:39, subodh kulkarni wrote: > Great Innovation! >

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Brand Project] Next naming phase

2020-06-23 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Wikisourcers, An open letter has been published on meta an hour ago asking WMF to pause or stop the renaming activities. The letter was drafted collaboratively after the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Brand Project] Next naming phase

2020-06-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Nicolas, I don't think our voices really matter in this case. Check the RfC, people are still voting against 'Wikipedia' as a brand name, but the survey has only one option which is three variants of Wikipedia. It doesn't even have the option of status quo. This is very frustrating to say, but

Re: [Wikisource-l] Automatic text tagging and annotation

2020-07-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
e, and added to wikitext after being confirmed by > humans? > > Or not added to wikitext at all and stored separately somewhere? > > בתאריך יום ג׳, 28 ביולי 2020, 18:36, מאת Bodhisattwa Mandal ‏< > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com>: > >> Hello, >> >> I would l

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