[Wikisource-l] Wikisource gains a public

Hoi, I am really happy to have noticed that Wikisource books will be offered by the Internet Archive in its Open Library project. Obviously, it is well deserved that Wikisource gets a bigger public. I have two questions: * to what extent is the Wikimedia Foundation aware and has been involved *

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

Hoi, At the time there were enough people who did not want a Wikipedia Foundation so it did not happen. People insisted for the Wikimedia Foundation to concentrate on Wikipedia and English Wikipedia at that and that is what happened. In a marketing driven organisation, there would be people

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: Case Study about Bengali Wikisource 10th Anniversary Proofreading Contest

Hoi, Most Wikimedians are not award how important Wikisource is for the languages from India. Satdeep do you have some documentation, some statistics to share with us? Thanks, GerardM On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 at 07:59, Satdeep Gill wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am re-sending this email as the

Re: [Wikisource-l] Everything will be Wikipedia

Hoi, The big problem with Wikipedia and particularly Wikipedians is that they drown any argument that does not fit them. I find it really telling that some things are researched as they confirm what we already know and at the same time when for political reasons decisions are made that lead to the

Re: [Wikisource-l] WikidataCon 2017

Hoi, A Wikipedia matra is be bold and another is that things are a work in progress. In my opinion, what we need is the name of a book, its author and the fact that people can read it. All the other stuff like what "version" is a particular book pales in comparison. We should not let the quest for

Re: [Wikisource-l] WikidataCon 2017

Hoi, I am actively pushing the inclusion of books that are available from the Open Library. They will be by authors who are already known to Wikidata and the books will have either an ISBN or an identifier from for instance the Library of Congress. The point to this is that we do not know if

Re: [Wikisource-l] Proposal

welcome. It won't be worked on for a while and I can't guarantee that it > will definitely happen, but if it's something the Wikisource community > would benefit from, then that would absolutely increase the likelihood > we'll work on it. > > Best, > Sam > > On 12 October 2017 at

[Wikisource-l] Proposal

Hoi, Given the discussion about finished books on the Korean Wikisource, I this demonstrates that we really need to advertise the finished books to a reading public. After all what is it that we do it for but for finding a public for the transcribed books? Thanks, GerardM

Re: [Wikisource-l] Validated works on kowikisource?

Hoi, Yes we need to have a better mechanism. However, there is nothing stopping us to publish all the books that are finished and ready to be read. That is the proof of the Wikisource pudding.. So is there a Wikidata query showing all the books that are finished and ready to read. With this we

Re: [Wikisource-l] Validated works on kowikisource?

Hoi, When this data is in Wikidata, we can build a query that shows all the ready books in every language. We can then package it and measure how often books are read. This is the purpose of Wikisource isn't it? Thanks, GerardM On 12 October 2017 at 07:37, Yongmin H.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Validated works on kowikisource?

atus data is unlikely to ever be in Wikidata. The > tool below gets this information from category-membership of Index pages. > > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, at 01:18 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Hoi, > Is there a query in Wikidata for all the validated and complete books in > Wiki

Re: [Wikisource-l] Validated works on kowikisource?

Hoi, Is there a query in Wikidata for all the validated and complete books in Wikisource? Thanks, GerardM On 12 October 2017 at 06:14, Sam Wilson wrote: > > No validated works found for ko > > The ws-cat-browser is saying it can't find any validated and categorized >

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Offline-l] FYI - WMF pausing and deprecating some functionality

Hoi, Thanks good to know. GerardM On 11 October 2017 at 11:56, Sam Wilson wrote: > Yes, I think Nicolas is right. OCG has never really done what Wikisource > needed, and WsExport has (wonderfully). It would of course be brilliant if > the new PDF & epub generation could

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Offline-l] FYI - WMF pausing and deprecating some functionality

Hoi, Anne just a question, if this was key functionality for the English Wikipedia, would you remove this functionality with a promise of "trust us we are working towards something new" ?? I think not. Thanks, GerardM On 11 October 2017 at 08:40, Federico Leva (Nemo)

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

Hoi, In Reasonator every item incuding content from Wikibooks have their QR-code. Thanks, GerardM https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?=237572 On 7 July 2017 at 07:22, Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > Hi, > > There has been significant decline in library

Re: [Wikisource-l] A draft nsPage viewer

Hoi, Has it been considered to Internationalise and Localise the code at translatewiki.net ? Thanks, GerardM On 14 June 2017 at 10:03, Alex Brollo wrote: > The code is into https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-vis.js > (running) and into

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy

Hoi, Classification as we have it is a wonder. It is there and it cannot be explained. It does serve a purpose though. Thanks, GerardM On 11 April 2017 at 12:44, Jane Darnell wrote: > Interesting query, thanks! How odd that "sitcom" is a subclass of > "literary work"! I

Re: [Wikisource-l] Indic Wikisource Update January 2017

Hoi, What does that mean for a reader? How many publications are ready to read? Thanks, GerardM On 10 January 2017 at 19:27, Jayanta Nath wrote: > Hello all, > > Happy New Year 2017. We've just published the January 2017 Indic > Wikisource statistics. > > Here is the

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: Wikisource and sharing its content

Hoi, I had the email address wrong. This is why I forward it as well. Thanks, GerardM -- Forwarded message -- From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> Date: 16 December 2016 at 07:58 Subject: Wikisource and sharing its content To: Katherine Mahe