Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource survey

2013-11-01 Thread John Vandenberg
Congrats on a good response rate. p.s. It was pulled down from enws and oldws sitenotices on the 28th. On Oct 31, 2013 11:39 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: Ok guys, after (more than) 2 weeks, the survey will be closed tonight. If you still need to fill it in, do it *now*. We

Re: [Wikisource-l] Blogpost on Wikisource

2013-10-17 Thread John Vandenberg
Im on mobile only today. If nobody else beats me, Ill add the site notice tonight. On Oct 17, 2013 9:02 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dmytro. Some en.source (and oldwikisource.org) admins should be on this list though: can you guys promote it on the sitenotice?

[Wikisource-l] Banned Books Week

2013-09-25 Thread John Vandenberg
to participate? My idea for an international project is to set up a latin transcription of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum I havent looked carefully for an online text, but it isnt immediately obvious that it has been transcribed already. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikisource-l] Banned Books Week

2013-09-25 Thread John Vandenberg
to present in 2014. Trying to achieve in a two day period may well be symbolic, though unfruitful. Regards, Billinghurst/ On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:53:49 +0700, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: A Facebook post from the State Library of New South Wales alerted me to this being Banned Books

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Bug 189: Add a music wikimodule resolved/fixed

2013-04-24 Thread John Vandenberg
Yay!! John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note -- Forwarded message -- From: MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com Date: Apr 23, 2013 12:28 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Bug 189: Add a music wikimodule resolved/fixed To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Hi. https

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Distributed Proofreaders hits 25, 000 books scanned and proofread

2013-04-10 Thread John Vandenberg
. http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=53404 - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- John Vandenberg

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography digitised on Wikisource

2013-02-12 Thread John Vandenberg
Congrats Charles for seeing this project through to completion, and the many others involved in. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note -- Forwarded message -- From: Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk Date: Feb 12, 2013 2:40 AM Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] kind of a partnership: Wikisource saves Lentapedia

2013-01-29 Thread John Vandenberg
Forwarding with permission. -- Forwarded message -- From: Анастасия Львова anastasia.lv...@wikimedia.ru Date: Jan 30, 2013 4:46 PM Subject: [cultural-partners] kind pf a partnership: Wikisource saves Lentapedia To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination

Re: [Wikisource-l] Support of non-arabic page number in page namespace

2012-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
Excellent improvements. Should we test them before they are deployed? John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Sep 8, 2012 12:03 AM, Thomas PT thoma...@hotmail.fr wrote: Hi, For people that doesn't know me, I contribute to the French Wikisource and I try to improve the Proofread Page

Re: [Wikisource-l] @wikisource finally on Twitter!

2012-07-19 Thread John Vandenberg
Well done Amir! On Jul 20, 2012 5:07 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hallo, For a while it bothered me that there's an account on Twitter called wikisource, which didn't actually belong to project we love, and which didn't publish any tweets. So I emailed the

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: A Digital Dawn - online today to celebrate IWD

2012-03-07 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Donna Benjamin do...@digitisethedawn.org Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:01 AM Subject: A Digital Dawn - online today to celebrate IWD To: digitisethedawn digitisethed...@gmail.com International Women's Day 2012 The Dawn is now available online.

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sanskrit, scripts and Wikisource

2012-03-04 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:31 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sanskrit, scripts and Wikisource To: Wikimedia India wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hoi, Today the Sanskrit Wikisource will get WebFonts

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] The Gujurati Wikisource

2012-03-03 Thread John Vandenberg
___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- John Vandenberg

[Wikisource-l] Australian Children’s Literature Digital Resources

2012-02-23 Thread John Vandenberg
secondary material. ... They don't have many full-text items. Only one. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWorkworkId=C%23MU] Maybe we can do the transcription for them. ;-) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Australia -- John Vandenberg

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Statistics about gender gap

2012-02-03 Thread John Vandenberg
://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wmcharts/wmchart0013.html Wikiquote, Wikisource and Wikiversity are the winners. 2012/2/2 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/2/2 Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com ... What else are people seeing

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] There is a deadline

2011-09-22 Thread John Vandenberg
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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Gendergap] Nudity vs Islam in Western Europe

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
, but is built with direct database access. It needs love. If you become bored with comparing Wikipedias, .. ;-) -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Very sad news: PG founder Michael S. Hart has died

2011-09-07 Thread John Vandenberg
very sad news. rip. -- Forwarded message -- From: emijrp emi...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Very sad news To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Michael S. Hart has died

Re: [Wikisource-l] A Notable book in CC-BY-SA license and Malayalam wikisource

2011-05-29 Thread John Vandenberg
://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Rajiva_Wijesinha The permission should go through the OTRS process, and then be recorded on the author talk page like this. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author_talk:Rajiva_Wijesinha -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

Re: [Wikisource-l] who is dr.nate

2011-02-26 Thread John Vandenberg
out who it is, and I am pretty sure they are not a wikisourcerer. If you could recover this name, that would be good. It isn't urgent. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikisource-l] who is dr.nate

2011-02-22 Thread John Vandenberg
Does anyone know who 'dr.nate' is? http://twitter.com/#!/wikisource See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Twitter -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Copyright status of scans

2010-10-27 Thread John Vandenberg
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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-19 Thread John Vandenberg
A longer piece about this: http://www.mn.ru/society/20101019/188137566.html -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] new statistics

2010-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
that I think we should change the default prefs so that all new pages are added to the watchlist, and changes on the watchlist send an email. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] new statistics

2010-10-02 Thread John Vandenberg
Thanks Thomas. Spanish Wikisource is the big mover, with lots of new contributors coming and helping with one very large project: http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Sesiones_de_los_Cuerpos_Lejislativos_de_la_Rep%C3%BAblica_de_Chile_%281810-1845%29 On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:41 AM, ThomasV

Re: [Wikisource-l] Parallel text alignment (was: Push translation)

2010-08-08 Thread John Vandenberg
projects have different layouts, esp. templates such as the header on each page. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Proofreading

2009-11-19 Thread John Vandenberg
this is stupid. Where is the 9 lines of code? I want to review the code. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Proofreading

2009-11-19 Thread John Vandenberg
. If it will make everyone happy again, I will write the code if nobody else wants to do it. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

2009-10-17 Thread John Vandenberg
We should take this text and put it on Wikisource, and translate it into every language! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kj%C3%B8benhavnsposten_28_nov_1838_side_1.jpg -- Forwarded message -- From: Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.com Date: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:21 AM

Re: [Wikisource-l] Proofreading

2009-10-12 Thread John Vandenberg
statistics. Perhaps a de.WS contributor could explain the reason in a new thread; maybe we can learn from de.WS, or agree to disagree. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource growth animation

2009-09-16 Thread John Vandenberg
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/growth/AnimationProjectsGrowthWs.html?canvas_width=800canvas_height=600 I like the linear graph better than the logarithmic graph. (lin vs log in the top left hand corner) -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikisource-l] Strategic planning

2009-09-04 Thread John Vandenberg
to be described. I have started a new proposal for this. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/strategy/wiki/Proposal:Dublin_core -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] Universal Library

2009-09-04 Thread John Vandenberg
. Dups, lack of sorting, etc. I haven't found the OpenLibrary coolaid; I'll stick with Wikisource, for good or ill. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] Universal Library

2009-09-03 Thread John Vandenberg
is intending to have the same content in different languages. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] [ol-discuss] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-11 Thread John Vandenberg
there (these links contain an archive.org identifier). There are also links to LibraryThing and Open Library; we have very few rules ;-) -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource statistics updated

2009-07-20 Thread John Vandenberg
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/Sitemap.htm -- John Vandenberg -- Forwarded message -- From: Piotr Konieczny pio...@post.pl Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:19 AM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia statistics updated To: wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org This should

Re: [Wikisource-l] extension collection

2009-07-19 Thread John Vandenberg
violation is a good reason for asking to suppress this extension from Wikisource. This problem would occur whenever any transclusion occurs? If it is, this problem may affect many other projects. If it only happens when LST is used, it is a Wikisource specific problem. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikisource-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

2009-06-21 Thread John Vandenberg
. English Wikisource has a history of being the lower quality project, so we can be the test bed without any loss of quality. ;-) -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource features New Holland flora

2009-06-14 Thread John Vandenberg
/Index:A_Specimen_of_the_Botany_of_New_Holland.djvu A list of all featured texts can be seen here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Featured_texts -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [gutvol-d] need a book scanned?

2009-03-05 Thread John Vandenberg
scanned, however those results appear to be the same as available on archive.org. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Changing the Main Page

2009-03-01 Thread John Vandenberg
of typical Internet usage the average person. A large percentage of our page views will be *editors* and *bots*. If we do go to page views, we might also want to weight the page views based on average page size. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

Re: [Wikisource-l] Lecture of prof. Miran Hladnik at conference in Belgrade

2008-12-27 Thread John Vandenberg
the technology to this group; it sounds like it will dovetail with their project needs very well. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped

2008-11-21 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Brion Vibber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:49 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Upload filesize limit bumped To: Wikimedia developers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now that we've got uploads running on our

Re: [Wikisource-l] Archimedes Palimpsest Digital Release

2008-10-29 Thread John Vandenberg
/FloatingBodies/ (non commercial) -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

2008-09-25 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Ryan Dabler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have they tried contacting Google? Google News is now archiving actual newspapers for real-time browsing when you do an archive search on Google News. This seems like it'd be right up their alley. We dont know who has or

Re: [Wikisource-l] help needed searching for pagescans and front covers

2008-08-14 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Vandenberg wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion, translations (performed by wiki volunteers) should belong in Wikibooks and not in Wikisource, exactly

Re: [Wikisource-l] I want to donate the content of a rare photography book to Wikimedia.

2008-08-05 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Adam Cuerden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear everyone. I am in possession of a book, The University of Glasgow Old and New. (Partial details: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/july2008.html ). My copy is #22 of 50, I believe there was also a cheaper

Re: [Wikisource-l] [WikiEN-l] EB1911 in Wikipedia

2008-07-24 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Tim Starling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Vandenberg wrote: Hi, I've been told that a large percentage of the EB1911 sits within the history of English Wikipedia, and a during a recent discussion about EB1911 here few checks indicate that this is possibly

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [B-Greek] Codex Sinaiticus

2008-07-21 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bryant J. Williams III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:36 PM Subject: [B-Greek] Codex Sinaiticus To: B Greek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear List, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.viewpageId=70242 Below is the copy of the article

Re: [Wikisource-l] Autoupdate into the database

2008-07-10 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Aelxander Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi NG! I wannt to insert an article into the Mysql database without clicking the frontend. Is it possible and how? greetz Alex It is not possible to insert pages directly into the database, but there are many tools

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [gmonthly] World eBook Fair July 4-August 4

2008-07-04 Thread John Vandenberg
Wikisource is not mentioned :( -- Forwarded message -- From: Greg Newby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:48 PM Subject: [gmonthly] World eBook Fair July 4-August 4 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Million Plus Books Free for the Taking! July 4 2008 The

[Wikisource-l] Latin Wikisource governance

2008-06-23 Thread John Vandenberg
/wiki/Specialis:Conlationes/Accurimbono 4. http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Vicifons:Scriptorium#request_for_volunteers 5. http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicipaedia:Taberna -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikisource-l] Newsweek article on the Wiki Bible project

2008-06-16 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Ray Saintonge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Vandenberg wrote: http://www.newsweek.com/id/141516 It would be nice if they had credited Wikisource for this instead of Wikipedia. The way the article stands, potential additional translators won't be able

[Wikisource-l] Newsweek article on the Wiki Bible project

2008-06-15 Thread John Vandenberg
http://www.newsweek.com/id/141516 -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource Free Bible in the blogshere; Fwd: Google Alert - wikisource

2008-05-29 Thread John Vandenberg
Below are two links to a cross-posted blog entry about the Wikisource Free Bible project. Each forum has separate discussion going on. -- John -- Forwarded message -- From: Google Alerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:17 AM Subject: Google Alert - wikisource To:

Re: [Wikisource-l] wikisource meeting?

2007-04-13 Thread John Vandenberg
On 4/13/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would attend if possible. #wikisource would be the ideal channel for such a meeting. I would watch and learn. -- John ___ Wikisource-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]