[Wikisource-l] Re: MediaWiki, Wikisource extensions, and new implementations deployment

Hey everybody, I stumbled upon this message by chance, but now I'm curious: are you implementing IIIF on Wikisource? That's very interesting! Aubrey On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 1:13 PM Ruthven wrote: > Hi all, and thanks for the info. > > I get from your messages that there are two major points to

Re: [Wikisource-l] Stepping down as an admin for the list

ve as before, if you need help I can help you with mailing >> list, but please stay >> Mardetanha >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 1:45 PM Andrea Zanni >> wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> it's few years that I'm no longer involved in Wikime

[Wikisource-l] Stepping down as an admin for the list

Hello everyone, it's few years that I'm no longer involved in Wikimedia (at least not as much as before), but I'm still admin of a few lists ;-) Does anyone want to take care of this one? I'm not doing a good job and would love to let others curate it more than I do. Let me know. Cheers, Aubrey

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: Wikimedia affiliate/user group social media accounts

Can someone reply to this? -- Forwarded message - From: Aubrie Johnson Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 1:13 AM Subject: Wikimedia affiliate/user group social media accounts To: Cc: Hello, The Digital Media team at the Wikimedia Foundation is currently updating our information

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: #100usergroups social media campaign

I just received this message from WMF: do you want to propose a message? Aubrey -- Forwarded message - From: Dumisani Ndubane Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:01 PM Subject: #100usergroups social media campaign To: Zanni Andrea Hello Andrea We are excited to inform you that we

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource meetup in Wikimania

Guys, it should be really easy to plan a meetup: look at the program and venue, find a suitable spot and decide a room and a date. You'll have time to change it accordingly. Aubrey On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 6:35 PM, balaji wrote: > Hi, > Is there any update regarding the wikisource meetup? >

Re: [Wikisource-l] edit-a-thon for wikisource

You can count in different ways proofread pages (3 points) and validated pages (1 point). Then you just count (an editathon is short so you don't need fancy things, although there are scripts to do it). We give the 1st prize to the person with more points, than we give the 2nd and 3rd prize with

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

@Vigneron and Balaji Please register asap: Cornelius from Wikimedia DE just asked me why nobody from our UG signed up. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's best that Vigneron and Balaji go. > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 201

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

mow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrea Zanni, 05/01/2018 12:34: > >> Another possibility is that Vigneron and Balaji go, of course: an >> experienced member like Vigneron can and will be able to introduce Balaji >> to the right people. >> > > Indeed, it would be

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

We're a bit stuck :-S. I'd encourage also others to chime in and give their free opinion. This should be the UG decision. Another possibility is that Vigneron and Balaji go, of course: an experienced member like Vigneron can and will be able to introduce Balaji to the right people. Also: any

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

Me and Tpt were there last year, and I'm available if the User Group is ok with that, but maybe others would like to go representing the WCUG? The Conference is a matter of talking, talking, talking with a lot of people, and convincing Sam's boss to let him work for Wikisource ;-) On Fri, Dec

[Wikisource-l] Improve workflow for uploading books to Wikisource

In a shameless plug, I ask you to endorse this project in the Community WishList: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource/Improve_workflow_for_uploading_books_to_Wikisource#Voting There are other very good ideas in the list, so fell free to propose them here ;-)

Re: [Wikisource-l] quickstatements for missing editions

Anyway, Sam, please continue the development of the Ws-search. I just played with it a bit, but I find this to be an excellent tool for 1. importing data from WS to WD 2. *maintaining* WD up to date Point 2 is important as point 1. Maintenance is impossible if you can't do queries on WD or a

Re: [Wikisource-l] wikisource "work" pages or "multiple editions" pages

> > for instance Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: > > > Goethe was an author, but there are also works about Goethe. In de.ws > portal-page and author-page about Geothe are merged in one. There is no > difference. Don't expect

Re: [Wikisource-l] quickstatements for missing editions

;> (and we sort out the various edge cases) when we're actively using it for >> real. >> >> But of course, each Wikisource is in a similar position. :-( And are we >> to all be developing the Lua scripts and templates in isolation? Indeed no! >> :-) We shall

Re: [Wikisource-l] Hangout session

I won't be able to attend this Saturday, but please do it ;-) On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:03 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > Great idea! I'm up for this Saturday. > > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, at 03:03 AM, Nicolas VIGNERON wrote: > > Hi everyone, > From January to April of this year, we

Re: [Wikisource-l] quickstatements for missing editions

@Sam, Tpt, my personal experience is too that HTML is the way to pull out the Wikisource important metadata, but it's also that every Wikisource has sort of a different way to show them, meaning that you need to tweak your scraper for each Wikisource. Is that still true? Last time I did it was

Re: [Wikisource-l] quickstatements for missing editions

rom a "multiple edition" page... So in this way is easy to tell the difference. On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON < vigneron.nico...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-10-31 18:45 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com>: > >> For the "work&qu

Re: [Wikisource-l] quickstatements for missing editions

For the "work" concept, Italian Wikisource decided to create a real and new namespace, "Opera" (which means work). It's the one page where we store the links to multiple editions of a certain book we have. It's not a disambiguation page in the sense that a disambiguation page works with different

[Wikisource-l] Endorsement of the strategy

If it's ok for you, today I will endorse the new Wikimedia strategy[1] on behalf of the Wikisource Community User Group. I participated in the early drafting of the strategy (until May-June), but later on unfortunately I didn't follow it closely. I think the new strategy is open enough to be

Re: [Wikisource-l] The very first result of IA _abbyy.gz parsing & bot uploading into nsPage

Thanks Alex! I really hope this is a direction where other developers will follow: being able to harness the full potential of structured data from OCR software is absolutely crucial for Wikisource: we could actually automatize *a lot* of the formatting work now done by volunteers, and their time

Re: [Wikisource-l] Proposal

This is an ooold issue: Wikisource does not have proper metadata. I'm one of the people that Nemo Was mentioning: I'm a digital librarian working for MLOL, and in the past 2 years, among other dozens of digital libraries, I've managed to import Wikisource metadata on MLOL in 3 languages

[Wikisource-l] IA Upload queue

Dear all, someone could help understand if we have an issue here? https://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/commons/init Some librarians uploaded books months ago, but they were never processed. Is the tool working, or it simply never signals when it fails?

Re: [Wikisource-l] Endangered Archives Program of British Library

sorry, but this and another mail are sent with weeks of delay. I'm not really a good admin of this list, so if someone wants to step up, I'll be happy. Aubrey On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > There is a huge collection of rare

Re: [Wikisource-l] Budget for Wikisource

ferent about > the ones that fail? Is it related to removing (or not) the Google cover > page? > > I can find time this weekend I think, to work on this. > > > On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, at 03:23 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > Hello everyone, before talking again about this let me s

Re: [Wikisource-l] Budget for Wikisource

er I can! > > —sam > > On Wed, 10 May 2017, at 09:38 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > Dear all, > Wikimedia Italia put in its budget 3000€ for Wikisource-related work. > When we discussed this, months ago, we thought about paying a developer > for > the DJVU issue

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikimedia-l] Which templates should be global?

m wikibase%3Alanguage "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]%2Cen". }%0A}%0AORDER BY DESC(%3Fsitelinks) On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding this to wikisource-l, as with Ernest we discussed many times > about > "globalising

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Which templates should be global?

Forwarding this to wikisource-l, as with Ernest we discussed many times about "globalising" some templates or features. Aubrey --- Hallo, TLDR: If you are an experienced editor on any Wikimedia project in any language, please add your ideas here:

Re: [Wikisource-l] identifying indexes with less than 50 pages

Not sure by an automatic procedure, but you can look at them here: https://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81:IndexPages On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 8:56 AM, balaji wrote: > Hi, > In Tamil wikisource we wanted to

[Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy, cycle 2

Dear all, cycle 2 for strategy is started. The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each

Re: [Wikisource-l] Budget for Wikisource

It may be. Not sure how Sam and Tpt solved that issue. Aubrey On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Philippe Elie <phil...@free.fr> wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2017 at 18:00 +0200, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > > > > > > There isn't also a trend when converting from jp2 -->

Re: [Wikisource-l] Budget for Wikisource

the workflow. When that happens, you get an error before uploading the book on Commons. Aubrey On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Philippe Elie <phil...@free.fr> wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2017 at 15:38 +0200, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > > Dear all, > > Wikimedia Itali

[Wikisource-l] Budget for Wikisource

Dear all, Wikimedia Italia put in its budget 3000€ for Wikisource-related work. When we discussed this, months ago, we thought about paying a developer for the DJVU issue of the IA-Upload tool, which then has been resolved by our beloved Sam Wilson. The tool is still not perfect (I often get

[Wikisource-l] Phetools down?

:-( https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=1 Aubrey ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy

free, again, to jump in at any time. Aubrey On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to bring back the discussion to the Wikimedia Strategy (of > course, you're free to fork this thread in several others: more > discussi

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy

In it.source we made a similar Canon: https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Canone_delle_opere_della_letteratura_italiana Ideally, we should have an item (a "work" item, so basically the one with a Wikipedia article) on Wikidata for each one. Than we can count how many Wikipedias have an

[Wikisource-l] Book-based pageviews statistics

Dear all, I returned yesterday from the annual Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. I've quite a few things to tell you about the conf and the strategy, but let me start with this: thanks to Leon Ziemba and Sam Walton, we have a nice way to show book-based statistics, meaning the aggregated pageviews

Re: [Wikisource-l] CREDIT showcase

d be done don't you think? > Or maybe we just advertise our monthly hangouts more widely? > > There's certainly a lack of awareness about Wikisource within the WMF, I > think. > > —Sam > > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, at 03:09 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > Not sure if I can on W

Re: [Wikisource-l] CREDIT showcase

l do it. But you'd be great! > :-) > > —Sam > > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, at 02:58 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > I can think about it, > but we should really "check" that IA Upload tool is failproof: > last time I used it it failed quite a few times. > Not a big deal,

Re: [Wikisource-l] CREDIT showcase

I can think about it, but we should really "check" that IA Upload tool is failproof: last time I used it it failed quite a few times. Not a big deal, but not in a showcase ;-) On the other hand, this is maybe what we should show them: how much the Wikisource community relies on

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy

even have a greater "Wikisource" collection, that contains all the linguistic collections. Maybe this is a bit OT for the strategy, but I think it suggests way to improve the collaboration between us and IA. On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikisource-l] March hangout

I can't participate at that hour because it's 13:00 here, and, as you probably guess, Italians, on a Sunday, at 13:00, have lunch! ;-) Aubrey On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > Some notes from the hangout are now on: >

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy

which needs a whole different level of tools and interface. Maybe you are having a similar discussion? Do you possibly see a "fork", in the future, of Wikisource in 2 different projects, or at least 2 different interfaces? Aubrey On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Andrea Zanni &l

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [WMCON17] Reminder: Submission Deadline for Wikimania 2017 on March 30

If someone is interested in making a proposal for Wikimania 2017, in Montréal, this is the *last* week! It would be good to have Wikisource talks, given the extraordinary work from Ernst and other Canadian Wikisourcerers. Be bold! Aubrey --- A reminder that the deadline for submissions for

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy

@Micru: of course, as you say, machine learning is the elephant in the room. I dream of something we could call "Wikisource as a platform": meaning an environment with structured data and workflows where you can have APIs and tools for interact with humans and machines, both for input and for

[Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy

Dear all, as you probably have heard, a process for writing the strategy of Wikimedia has started in these days. It's a complex and collective process, and if you are confused, don't be: everyone is ;-) Conversations are starting to pop everywhere on Meta, on Wikipedias, on Wikisources, probably

Re: [Wikisource-l] interesting reading

mmm, scam? Aubrey On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Wikimedia-l wrote: > Hi friend! > > > > I've found a nice book that makes interesting reading, please read it here > continue > reading > > > > Yours faithfully, Wikimedia-l > > >

Re: [Wikisource-l] IA Upload tool — higher-quality DjVus

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > That's a great idea! > I think we can use Wikidata to build the list: > > http://tinyurl.com/zwdbzyq > > Probably, en.source is the only one who has filled in all Wikisource data inside Wikidata... Or other Wikisources

Re: [Wikisource-l] IA Upload tool — higher-quality DjVus

Hi everyone, I made this, hopefully is helful: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158GvBrPBW0KfREHRmLFK7EhuB-FQBkLbm9qxJBaJTUY/edit?usp=sharing It's the list of the files on Commons uploaded from Internet Archive. The idea, right now, is that every language Wikisource would take care of their

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource hangout next weekend

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON < vigneron.nico...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm avalaible at 14:00 PM (UTC+1) > I'm available too. Let's do this. Aubrey ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource hangout next weekend

There will be an hangout today? On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:32 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Great, thank you for the report :) > > Le 29/01/2017 à 09:27, Sam Wilson a écrit : > > Thanks everyone for coming to the hangout!! It was great to talk about > all this.

[Wikisource-l] Wikistats 2.0 and Wikisource

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 project and better insights for us the community. For this week, until next Monday, they are accepting feedbacks:

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource hangout next weekend

Thanks for the notes! Aubrey On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > Thanks everyone for coming to the hangout!! It was great to talk about > all this. :-) > > I've attempted to clean up the etherpad notes: >

Re: [Wikisource-l] The conversion from PDF to DJVU loses too much quality

17, at 06:35 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > The problem for me is that librarians and other people who are genuinely > interested in Wikisource and IA > don't understand why > * they upload a good scan on IA > * see a good book on IA, via the viewer > * get an horrible djvu on

Re: [Wikisource-l] The conversion from PDF to DJVU loses too much quality

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > Are we saying that we *never* want to use the IA PDF? That if there's a > DjVu we use it, and if there isn't we generate our own DjVu from the JP2 > and djvu.xml files? Or should the tool user make this call and we give

Re: [Wikisource-l] The conversion from PDF to DJVU loses too much quality

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > Yann, do you mean you're getting good quality DjVu generated from the PDF? > Or from the original scan Jpegs? > > AFAIU, Yann is using ABBYY finereader to generate a djvu and then uploads it directly to Commons. So

[Wikisource-l] The conversion from PDF to DJVU loses too much quality

I added this issue to IA-upload tool on github: https://github.com/Tpt/ia-upload/issues/14 Unfortunately, the new PDF > DJVU conversion is useless, as it loses too much quality. Can we find a solution? The IA-Upload tool is a great asset for the whole international community, and it's very simple

Re: [Wikisource-l] GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting

:-) I was asked to go, but I declined. I gave your name (and several others) not (only) out of sympathy, but because you're really good at what you do, because you're involved with GLAMs, and because the conference is in Paris. I think it's great opportunity to remind French GLAM people of the

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikiconference in Berlin

I really like the idea :-) ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikiconference in Berlin

(please refer to my previous mail in this thread for more details). Aubrey On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > everyone. > I booked for myself one seat for the Strategy track (time is running out > and, as far as I kno

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikiconference in Berlin

be present too! Aubrey On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, > but maybe they will come to the Wikiconf in another capacity, as WIkimania > organizers... Or not. If not, Ernest is perfect for the Wikiconf. > > On Fri, Dec 23

Re: [Wikisource-l] Upload/import wizard

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > And if we're building DjVus for Commons from IA files (either PDFs or the > Jpegs), should we also be adding those DjVus back to the IA item? > (Actually, can we even edit IA items that we haven't created ourselves?) >

Re: [Wikisource-l] Drop OAI-PMH repository of Index: pages

Hi Thomas. I used, one year ago, the API: I downloaded the data from the Index pages, and I think that it would be good to have it while we still don't have Wikidata. I guess it could be very useful to use for importing those data into Wikidata. The problem with those API is that it works only

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikiconference in Berlin

Yes, but maybe they will come to the Wikiconf in another capacity, as WIkimania organizers... Or not. If not, Ernest is perfect for the Wikiconf. On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON < vigneron.nico...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe we should ask Benoît or Ernest from WM CA who

[Wikisource-l] Wikiconference in Berlin

Hello everyone, and happy holidays :-) As a User Group, we are eligible to send one member to the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin [1]. I participated last year, and if I'm not mistaken Micru did in 2015. The conference is a place where the WMF, chapters and other affiliates gather to discuss many

Re: [Wikisource-l] Community Wishlist Survey 2016 - Voting period opened

Thanks for the reminder, just voted and commented. I supported also the OAI-PMH proposal, but I think it's not the solution, as we already have such a tool and nobody uses it... It's years (for me, an entire decade...) that we advocate and propose solutions for metadata workflow in Wikisource,

[Wikisource-l] Happy birthday Wikisource!

Hello everyone, a reminder that today is Wikisource 13th birthday! How many communities are running a "proofreading contest"? Italian Wikisource is doing it, any other one? Thanks to Cristian Consonni, this year the "counting" should be easier, the code is all online:

[Wikisource-l] EPUB importer

I was wondering if someone made some script for "importing epubs" into Wikisource, meaning that * there is a "translation" from HTML to wikitext * there is a translation of the Index It's not a very big deal to do this by hand, but sometimes it would be very cool and helpful for those texts/books

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Your help needed: Community Wishlist Survey 2016

I remember when we tried to make a partnership with a scholar who works with ancient texts. He needed some Italian translation of Greek texts in Wikisource, but he was much more interested in validated/proofread text *without* formatting, than the contrary. 75% for us is formatted, always. But,

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Your help needed: Community Wishlist Survey 2016

I don't know how to structure it, but with Wikimedia Italia and the Italian Wikisource community we talked a lot about the "upload tool" from Internet Archive The idea is that, from at least 4-5 years, it's a good practice to upload the books into Internet Archive, and then use the djvu. This

Re: [Wikisource-l] Indic Wikisource Update November 2016

s_per_day.png > https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=30 > > —sam > > On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, at 02:16 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > Thanks, Jayanta, > is very important that you keep track of this progress. > Have you talked with Sam Wilson about this? &g

Re: [Wikisource-l] Indic Wikisource Update November 2016

Thanks, Jayanta, is very important that you keep track of this progress. Have you talked with Sam Wilson about this? There could be many ways in which the WMF can help you analyze this important moment of the Indic community, and it's also very important to them (and their donors) to understand

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource API client PHP package

Thanks! Now I'll wait for a Python wrapper :-D Aubrey On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:22 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been attempting to generalise some code for scraping data out of > Wikisources: > https://github.com/wikisource/api > > (Just in case any of you PHP

Re: [Wikisource-l] IA Upload tool

29 Sep 2016, at 07:36 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > I think that IA Upload tool is a critical step in the Wikisource workflow, > and I wonder if maybe Sam (as a Community Tech employee) could dedicate > some time to it. > Tpt can't maintain everything by himself... > For years, I've ex

Re: [Wikisource-l] IA Upload tool

ter. hOCR) multilingual service, > isn't it? > > Alex > > > > 2016-09-26 15:04 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com>: > >> (also, BUB is not currently working) >> >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.co

Re: [Wikisource-l] IA Upload tool

(also, BUB is not currently working) On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > can I ask you if you are currently using IA Upload tool > with IA books that *do not* have a Djvu file? > > It's few weeks I'm tryin

[Wikisource-l] IA Upload tool

Hello everyone, can I ask you if you are currently using IA Upload tool with IA books that *do not* have a Djvu file? It's few weeks I'm trying to upload this book https://archive.org/details/ComeRuinareLAutoritaImage with the tool, and in theory the IA-upload can now make the djvu by himself,

Re: [Wikisource-l] Event: demo of the OCR tool for Indic languages

Yes! Thanks. People who have a Wikisource account on FB or other social media, please share :-) Aubrey On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > Wikisource will be getting some visibility to the rest of the > MediaWiki/Wikimedia community: > >

[Wikisource-l] Books and Wikidata, part 1

After long discussions, me and Chiara Storti reviewed the "Pride and Prejudice" item and some of it's related items. We then wrote this *long* message here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Books#Wikiproject_Books_2.0 It's the first attempt to find a solution for Wikidata

Re: [Wikisource-l] Parallel text, DoubleWiki

I think the idea is brilliant, but DoubleWiki is really old and the arrow is almost invisible, so probably no one is using it. When ContentTranslation came out I wondered for a while if that could be applied also to Wikisource (for translations) or if part of it could be used to match existing

Re: [Wikisource-l] Good news about CropTool

This great tool allow a very simple "crop" of the illustration in a book page, and the upload of that copping as a standalone image. This is crucial for exporting good ebooks with all the images and illustrations. Aubrey On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal <

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikidata and mass import

At the moment, Sam, librarybase is a project that can be anything we want :-) James Hare set it up because he wanted a place where to store bibliographic informations, but it's up to the community what to do with it. I personally think that we should use Wikidata as much as possible, and when we

[Wikisource-l] Wikidata and mass import

Hi everyone. Thanks to Samwilson, we have know a pre-alpha tool that help us retrieve metadata for books in Wikisource: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-search/?title=%25==it_format=table_index=na it's in very early stage so please be kind and generous: (and also, if you can, help :-) The tool will

Re: [Wikisource-l] VisualEditor in Page: pages

Thanks Tpt! I encourage you all to write all the bugs on Phabricator, and if you don't know how to, report them on your local Scriptorium in order for someone to port them on the site. Aubrey On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Thomas Tanon wrote: > TL;DR: VisualEditor is

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource meetup at Museum - Esino

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikisource On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Tobias Schönberg <tobias47...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am at the Wikiproject Medicine Meeting. Is there a link to the > Etherpad? -Tobias > > 2016-06-23 9:52 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre..

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource meetup at Museum - Esino

Now! Please come. Aubrey ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Post on Wikimedia blog about Wikisource

And a great one too: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/02/why-i-proofread-poetry-wikisource/ Thanks User:Londonjackbooks! Aubrey ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikidata and Wikisource

ings moved in other > communities. > > Thomas > > > Le 21 mai 2016 à 10:48, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> a écrit > : > > > > Hi everyone, > > next week I'll participate in a conference/hackathon called WikiCite [1] > > > > It will be a

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikidata and Wikisource

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Nicolas VIGNERON < vigneron.nico...@gmail.com> wrote: > BTW, in Rennes, we planned to think on June 18th about importing all the > 13 millions books of the BnF catalog into Wikidata (or at least some part > of it). > ok, we need to talk before that date :-D I

[Wikisource-l] Wikidata and Wikisource

Hi everyone, next week I'll participate in a conference/hackathon called WikiCite [1] It will be a great opportunity to talk about Wikidata and books in general, and of course I'd love to work about the integration of Wikidata and Wikisource. It is my understanding (but please correct me if I'm

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource Meetup in Wikimania 2016

Here: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/astinson-zanni?authuser=0 starts now! :-) Aubrey On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Mardetanha <mardetanha.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > great :) thanks > > > On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andr

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource Meetup in Wikimania 2016

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Mardetanha wrote: > Andrea if you could make google hangout and more people could attend or > at least hear, would so great Well, it'll be at 16:00 UTC+02:00, and I can manage to have a Google Hangout. I'll post the link here. The

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource Meetup in Wikimania 2016

I will attend :-) And I'll also (probably) attending the hackathon. Today I will also have a skype call with a WMF for teaching him things about Wikisource: I want to make him understand some of the technology and usability problems we have. Hopefully that will lead of a clearer agenda for June.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Conference report

's not always the most funny > part, but I think it really help our community. > > > ĝis la revido, > > mathieu > > Le 02/05/2016 à 17:53, Andrea Zanni a écrit : > > Dear all, > last week I represented the Wikisource Community user Group at the > Wikimedia Conference

Re: [Wikisource-l] Non transcluded Page: from ns:0

ide. Aubrey On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for reminding us, it.source uses it too on the Index ns. > But Phe tool is different: it gives you the list of all the "not > transcluded" books. > You don't have to

Re: [Wikisource-l] Non transcluded Page: from ns:0

Thanks Phe also for the pointer at your GitHub page, I'll try to post issues directly there if needed :-) Your tool and a bit of fiddling with transclusions got me thinking: sometime some works are really complex. You have multiple Indexes representing multiple texts, and at times you also have

Re: [Wikisource-l] 2015 annual report of the Wikisource User Group

months ago: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/2015_Report Andrea On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > due to a misunderstanding (at least, from my part) we are past due the > annual report for

[Wikisource-l] 2015 annual report of the Wikisource User Group

Dear all, due to a misunderstanding (at least, from my part) we are past due the annual report for the Wikisource User Group. The report should be written here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/2015_Report In the next days I'll update it with all the information

[Wikisource-l] Visual Editor in Beta on Wikisource ns0

You probably just saw it, but we have the posibility of trying the VE in the main namespace on Wikisources now :-) Here's there is a guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:VisualEditor/The_visual_editor_at_Wikisources_and_Wiktionaries . It's be awesome if everyone of you could * spread the

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

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 think I'm not going to present anything this year: what I'll look into is the perennial issue of lobbying/advocacy within the WMF. In

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