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

2013-01-29 Thread Asaf Bartov
mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.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 -- Asaf

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource-l administrators

2013-05-30 Thread Asaf Bartov
mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make

[Wikisource-l] Program suggestions for Wikimedia Conference 2014

2013-11-15 Thread Asaf Bartov
#Review_of_previous_conference_programmes -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] TEI tags

2013-11-22 Thread Asaf Bartov
://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikilivres.ca

2014-08-11 Thread Asaf Bartov
It's still around. It just suffers from stability problems at its new hosting solution, and occasionally requires a manual reboot, for reasons not yet clear. So it may be out right now, but should be back up soon. It is my understanding this will be looked at soon. A. On Aug 11, 2014 8:52

Re: [Wikisource-l] OCR as a service?

2015-07-29 Thread Asaf Bartov
/listinfo/wikisource-l ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource Conference Program

2015-11-16 Thread Asaf Bartov
or the day. >>> So, please, edit this page adding the details here: >>> >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_Conference_2015/Program >>> We will then format that. >>> >>> Than

Re: [Wikisource-l] Github repository

2015-07-09 Thread Asaf Bartov
? Cdlt, ~nicolas ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every

Re: [Wikisource-l] OCR as a service?

2015-07-12 Thread Asaf Bartov
/ocr.php ). Thanks for the pointer! I don't see any documentation on how to feed images to it, though, and no pointer to the source code to figure it out on my own. Help? A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single

Re: [Wikisource-l] OCR as a service?

2015-07-12 Thread Asaf Bartov
that gets trained language per language: htat would be extremely useful for Wiikisources. (i can also imagine to divide, inside every language, per centuries, because languages too changes over time ;-) Indeed. A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource Conference, Wien, November 20-22

2015-09-24 Thread Asaf Bartov
nfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > ___ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > --

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Strategy

2017-03-19 Thread Asaf Bartov
To my mind, the ~15-year focus invites us to think big (i.e. not a feature here or there, but to imagine Wikimedia's role in the world in 2030, and in our context here, what Wikisource might be within that role). This, in turn, brings me back to a point I brought up in Vienna in 2015:

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

2017-07-06 Thread Asaf Bartov
Certainly, this can be done. Could you elaborate a little more about the use scenarios you are imagining? A. 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?

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati wikisource : 100 books Completed

2017-10-08 Thread Asaf Bartov
Fantastic news, Sushant! Congratulations to the Gujarati community. A. On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:59 PM sushant savla wrote: > Dear All, > > On blissful day of 02 October 2017, Gujarati Wikisource has completed > digitization of 100 books. The Journey had begun

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

2017-10-16 Thread Asaf Bartov
That's really promising! Thank you for sharing this. A. On Oct 17, 2017 00:11, "Alex Brollo" wrote: > Here: > Pagina:D'Ayala_-_Dizionario_militare_francese_italiano.djvu/46 >

[Wikisource-l] Nelson Mandela's Trial diary

2018-07-19 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hello, Wikisourcerors! Just in time for Mandela's centenary and Wikimania in Cape Town, South Africa, we have just made available for transcription on Wikisource Mandela's handwritten diary from the [[Rivonia Trial]] [1], which led to Mandela's long imprisonment. The diary was contributed by the

Re: [Wikisource-l] Djvu format fate

2018-04-06 Thread Asaf Bartov
Perhaps. But the case would need to be made (in more detail, and more compellingly) to the people who could decide that, and none of them are on this list. You'd probably have to convince managers of technical teams at WMF if there is to be a chance of prioritizing it. A. On Fri, Apr 6,

Re: [Wikisource-l] Affiliate-selected Board seats

2019-05-13 Thread Asaf Bartov
online meeting to talk about it, >>> but as we are scattered all around the globe, finding a good timeslot is >>> challenging. Would anyone be interested? (or is this mailing list enough?) >>> - obviously, any question, idea, remark, suggestion are welcome! >>> >>

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

2020-03-14 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 20:03 Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > Hi Ankry, > > As part of the understanding, NDLI is giving permission to use their > contents to be used on Wikimedia sites as needed. > This is of course not enough. Permission must be given to the entire world, not to Wikimedia sites

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

2020-03-14 Thread Asaf Bartov
Yes. I referred to "their content" in Bodhisattwa's statement. PD metadata is not "their content", really. A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a w

Re: [Wikisource-l] Community Tech Launches Wikisource Improvement Initiative

2020-05-27 Thread Asaf Bartov
Thanks! Are you able to share something about the timeline for beginning work on the other four? Cheers, A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single

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

2020-07-28 Thread Asaf Bartov
engineering resources to this, and there hasn't been a volunteer attempt, as far as I know. A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can

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

2021-04-29 Thread Asaf Bartov
I can help co-admining, too. A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a r

[Wikisource-l] Re: 2021 report

2021-11-13 Thread Asaf Bartov
on Y at event Z"), avoiding the impression the event itself is [co-]organized by the user group.) Cheers, A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every sin

[Wikisource-l] Re: 2021 report

2021-12-07 Thread Asaf Bartov
heers, A. [1] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Archives [2] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Archive Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine

[Wikisource-l] Re: asking grants to improve WS: WMI is funding some of our projects

2022-06-30 Thread Asaf Bartov
Wonderful news! A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!