[Wikisource-l] Strategic planning

2009-09-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
The strategic planning seems to have only few proposals for Wikisource: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposals_for_Wikisource . I think that Wikisource deserves more, so give a look aat the exissting proposals, comment them, fix them, add more! Nemo

Re: [Wikisource-l] Strategic planning

2009-09-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
ThomasV, 03/09/2009 11:48: Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : The strategic planning seems to have only few proposals for Wikisource: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposals_for_Wikisource . I think that Wikisource deserves more, so give a look aat the exissting proposals

Re: [Wikisource-l] Strategic planning

2009-09-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 03/09/2009 19:17: We could develop an Extension that could use metadata standard as DublinCore (or others). Currently we have http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAIRepository installed. Does domebody know what it does? Nemo ___

[Wikisource-l] Content namespaces

2010-01-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Just a question: have you ever discussed (and where) the possibility to add Page: (and maybe Index: and Author:) to the defined ContentNamespaces (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgContentNamespaces , $wgContentNamespaces = array (0, 102, 108, 110)) to get those pages considered by

Re: [Wikisource-l] Large pages

2010-02-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Lars Aronsson, 24/02/2010 19:10: Has anybody scanned a large-format newspaper in Wikisource? How does proofreading (page extension) work if you have 6 or 8 columns of a broadsheet? What possible methods are there to anchor a part of the OCR text to a part of the image? Are there any rolemodel

Re: [Wikisource-l] Partnership with the French National Library

2010-07-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thank you, Seb35! Andrea Zanni, 15/07/2010 18:47: I would really like to ask to all what they think about this (big) issue. Do you have any suggestion? What do you think we can do about it? Do you think that national chapter could help financially paying some people to transcribe and

Re: [Wikisource-l] Dublin Core and TEI

2010-07-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
John Vandenberg, 16/07/2010 03:03: The Perseus project is an *amazing* project, but I regard them far more ahead than us. The PP is actually a Virtual Research Environment, with tools for scholars and researcher for studying texts, (concordances and similar stuff). I agree. I would go

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] Wikisource and reCAPTCHA

2010-07-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Samuel J Klein, 16/07/2010 21:49: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Aubrey zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: Luckily, the relationships with the Italian Wikisource are really good, and they'll probably share an office with Wikimedia Italy, in October. The interesting fact is that the offices will

[Wikisource-l] [Fwd: Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects]

2010-10-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I suppose this may interest you. Sorry for crossposting; please join the discussion on foundation-l, if you wish. Nemo Messaggio Originale Oggetto: Five-year WMF targets exclude non-Wikipedia projects Data: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:33:07 +0200 Da: Federico Leva (Nemo) A: Wikimedia

Re: [Wikisource-l] ePub from source books

2010-11-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Alex Brollo, 08/11/2010 06:59: Is someone of you working on automation of conversion of wikisource texts into ePub format? I was thinking about talking with Tomasz Finc about that just yesterday: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Engineering_Overview_November_2010#Offline Nemo

Re: [Wikisource-l] How to get values of mediawiki php configuration variables

2011-04-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Alex Brollo, 30/04/2011 17:34: Digging into it.source statistics, I'd need to read the corrent value of it.source $wgContentNamespaces http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgContentNamespaces. Can I get it as a user or a sysop? If not, who have I to ask for? I don't know if there's an API

Re: [Wikisource-l] Dynamic PageList installed for each Wikisource

2011-05-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 15/05/2011 13:47: Being at Berlin Hackathon, I asked Ashar Voltuiz if they could install the Dynamic PageList extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_%28Wikimedia%29 in the Italian Wikisource. I knew a lot of Wikisource asked for that, so they

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

2011-05-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Shiju Alex, 29/05/2011 12:22: I am unable to find any similar case in *English wikisource*. Could some one please guide us regarding this? My primary question is, If a *notable* book of a language is available in a wikisource compatibility license can that be added to Wikisource?

Re: [Wikisource-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jyothis E, 11/06/2011 19:01: With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0 at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. This is by far the biggest digital collection of free books in Malayalam language

Re: [Wikisource-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Shiju Alex, 13/06/2011 04:14: The technical details of this offline release is available in Santhosh's blogpost. http://thottingal.in/blog/2011/06/11/malayalam-wikisource-offline-version/ As you can see from the online version of this offline release (http://www.mlwiki.in/wikisrccd/), we

Re: [Wikisource-l] British Library makes Google search deal

2011-06-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 20/06/2011 17:39: As I also wrote on the cultural-partners list, it is not clear if they are making a deal about digitising other books or making avalable books they already have. What do you understand? It should be the first one, otherwise there would be no gain for the

[Wikisource-l] Music module (LilyPond)

2011-12-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
The WMF is working on it, there's some chance to get it deployed at last. Coders needed. https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Music_module Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] [cultural-partners] ABBYY Finereader 11 on Toolserver: do we like it?

2011-12-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 28/11/2011 14:19: @Tomasz i think that Federico has a point in the approach he suggested: I'm wondering in fact how did IA get his license, we should ask them. Do we have any contact with Internet Archive? Any update here? Anyway, just to have an idea, look some stats by Jscott

Re: [Wikisource-l] password

2012-01-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Marc Galli, 06/01/2012 13:30: Hi I'm a sysop on French wikisource, I have lost my password and I have no email address to ask a new password. Explanations here : http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Mot_de_passe_perdu I know it is possible to insert a new email address in

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations! Steward Elections 2012

2012-01-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Forwarding to missing sister projects' lists. Messaggio originale Oggetto: [Foundation-l] Call for nominations! Steward Elections 2012 Data: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:10:59 +0600 Mittente: Tanvir Rahman Rispondi-a: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org A:

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Klaus Graf, 25/01/2012 13:11: I think there is a much more important issue we should discuss. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/All_files_copyrighted_in_the_US_under_the_URAA The US-centric WS may neglect it because there is widespread opinion that human beeings can

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] ACTA analysis?

2012-01-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Klaus Graf, 25/01/2012 14:00: The law counsel recommandation of 2007 wasn't communicated to the other WS and WE SHOULD IGNORE IT. It's clear that WMF has NOW to say what is possible in the light of the Supreme Court Decision - regarding Commons and the other WMF projects. This is a clear issue

[Wikisource-l] Statistics fixed on all Wikisources and Wiktionaries

2012-05-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
(After the new counting method, at last.) If you see sudden variation of the statistics, this is the reason. :) Nemo Messaggio originale Oggetto: [Bug 33253] Run updateArticleCount.php on all Wikisources and Wiktionaries Data: Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:39 + Mittente:

Re: [Wikisource-l] Toolserver user phe account expired

2012-05-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Lars Aronsson, 21/05/2012 23:52: http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php now says 403: User account expired This madness has to stop. Wikisource depends on this service. I understand the German toolserver is beyond repair, but phe's statistics scripts should be moved to proper WMF servers.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource-l Digest, Vol 118, Issue 1

2012-07-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
birgitte...@yahoo.com, 15/07/2012 16:33: Can you describe the indexing of transcluded pages in detail? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18861#c6 Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Unconference

2012-07-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Commenting only a small fraction of the email, sorry. birgitte...@yahoo.com, 15/07/2012 02:57: Tikiwiki actually has a translation tool written in php that is far more robust than we would need. Sorry but I seriously doubt so, as there doesn't seem to be any signficant use case, while we

Re: [Wikisource-l] unz.org - new digitization/archiving effort

2012-07-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ray Saintonge, 04/12/2011 02:27: For ourselves, it would make sense to be careful. In the broader scheme of things the situation bears watching. Do the authors of the articles even give a damn? I suspect that few if any with standing will ever complain. Those few can easily be accommodated. It

Re: [Wikisource-l] unz.org - new digitization/archiving effort

2012-07-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ray Saintonge, 24/07/2012 02:27: On 07/18/12 12:01 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Ray Saintonge, 04/12/2011 02:27: For ourselves, it would make sense to be careful. In the broader scheme of things the situation bears watching. Do the authors of the articles even give a damn? I suspect

Re: [Wikisource-l] Commons deletion of WS oriented works

2012-07-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
This si very annoying, on the other hand Commons administrators do indeed have a lot of work. Isn't there any way to set up some automatic notification system for DjVu / PDF deletion requests? Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

Re: [Wikisource-l] skewed statistics

2012-09-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
teak, 06/09/2012 18:33: Hi, does anyone know why the wikisource statistics are so skewed from what the local special:statistics shows? compare http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/Sitemap.htm with, say, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Statistics This seems to affect only wikisource,

Re: [Wikisource-l] Which books to scan to support Wikipedia

2012-09-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Federico Leva (Nemo), 23/07/2012 20:41: I'd like this to be scanned, to start with: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/1211661 (L'illustrazione italiana). It's a few dozens volumes; I've seen only one my grandma had and which looked helpful. Lars, any news here? Should I contact them directly? Nemo

Re: [Wikisource-l] Tool for importing books between IA, Commons, Google Books

2012-10-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 10/10/2012 12:25: Hi all, I wanted to ask you if there is a way to suggest User:tpb, the Internet Archive's bot who crawls in Google Books and upload them in IA, which books it should import. I doubt so, tpb is not an official IA service as far as I know. The best place to ask

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

2012-10-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thomas PT, 08/09/2012 19:21: You can now try these changes on labs: http://XX.wikisource.beta.wmflabs.org You should try translation of page number, there may be some issues with specific languages. So is everything working correctly? Nemo ___

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

2012-10-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thomas PT, 27/10/2012 13:48: I've made in september changes in the management of page numbers in order to allow the use of not-arabic page numbers. I wasn't sure if this change doesn't make collateral bugs in some other parts of the software. This patch is on Wikisource since a month and

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikimedia-l] A place for project wide discussions

2012-11-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrew Gray, 16/11/2012 16:43: On 16 November 2012 15:30, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: But I think the point (at leat originally) was not so much to have the global discussion forum or the global village pump, but to have a common place for Wikivoyage discussions, which so far

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Mediawiki-i18n] Extension to wrap certain characters in a span

2012-11-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Wikisource is using WebFonts (in some subdomains): how are the language codes added there? Nemo Nick White, 19/11/2012 10:51: In case the previous description was unclear, below is an example of what the extension does: original wikitext: Hello this is English, τηφσ ισ θοδδω, and back to

[Wikisource-l] New LabeledSectionTransclusion code breaks Wikisource

2012-11-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064741.html The new version was disabled on at least some Wikisources and the changes will also be reverted in the code until fixed, apparently, but they may come back.

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Textbook-l] [Fwd: Adam Hyde] Booktype project at WMF for PediaPress etc.

2012-12-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
a...@flossmanuals.net, 28/11/2012 11:57: See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/65398 This is relevant for all projects heavily using the Collection extension, I guess. also happy to discuss anything here if you like. You may wish to check out the

Re: [Wikisource-l] Proofreading based on statistics

2013-05-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Lars Aronsson, 24/05/2013 01:54: It should be possible, in any language of Wikisource, to check all existing text against What do you define as existing text? Only the text currently stored in wiki pages? Also the text layer of the DjVu or PDF files in use on the wiki? Also the files

Re: [Wikisource-l] wgProofreadPageNamespaceIds wmf configuration

2013-05-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
billinghurst, 30/05/2013 07:34: Can someone who is clueful please explain a little more about wgProofreadPageNamespaceIds It defined in http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php yet I do not see that fiWS and ukWS have entries there and uncertain whether that is a

Re: [Wikisource-l] Reunification of Wikisources

2013-06-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
David Cuenca, 02/06/2013 02:22: [...] specially now that projects like Wikidata have shown that it is possible to have both localization and centralization living in harmony. We're VERY far from such a harmony, or maybe I'm misunderstandind what you mean here. We don't have a true solution

Re: [Wikisource-l] Reunification of Wikisources

2013-06-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jane Darnell, 02/06/2013 11:12: Alex thanks for that perspective. I myself was wondering if anyone counted how many entries are in the books category here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books and then the entries for books per sister project on Wikisource. My gut feeling is that

Re: [Wikisource-l] ABBYY xml files: any of you is working about?

2013-06-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 17/06/2013 11:00: I actually had a contact with a ABBYY Finereader sales manager, but after a short conversation in this list I didn't follow up, as the community was not enthusiastic about that, and I was worried about the amount of money they could request us. Sure, we could

Re: [Wikisource-l] ProofreadPage Extension and Semantic Forms

2013-08-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I can only confirm what TPT said, sorry. But if, as it seems, you are working on transcribing a dictionary in order to import it into Wikisource, I am interested in hearing updates when you have some. Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

[Wikisource-l] archive.org switched to ABBYY FineReader 9.0

2013-10-01 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
As you know, many of us use archive.org to OCR their books: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:DjVu_files#The_Internet_Archive For a while, they've been stuck with FineReader 8.0. I've just noticed the last OCR processes use 9.0, which has 5 more languages and 2 more dictionaries:

Re: [Wikisource-l] archive.org switched to ABBYY FineReader 9.0

2013-10-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com mailto:nemow...@gmail.com wrote: As you know, many of us use archive.org http://archive.org to OCR their books: https://en.wikisource.org/__wiki/Help:DjVu_files#The___Internet_Archive https://en.wikisource.org/wiki

Re: [Wikisource-l] archive.org switched to ABBYY FineReader 9.0

2013-10-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 03/10/2013 18:53: On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Of course, it will need to be reuploaded. Reuploading is cheap, while correcting OCR errors consumes precious volunteer time. Ok, so now my point is: could we automatize the re-upload

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: Scanning: Some Thoughts

2013-10-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4099 Among other things: «scanning ephemera, which doesn’t usually have a binding and which can fit in a flatbed scanner, is generally better for people to be scanning than books and magazines. In general. If you want to “help”, that’ll “help” more than

Re: [Wikisource-l] archive.org switched to ABBYY FineReader 9.0

2013-11-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Federico Leva (Nemo), 11/10/2013 08:48: Dispenser kindly made a list of DjVu files on Commons linking an IA item, with some information like global usage: https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/temp/djvu2archive.org.txt (just change the extension to csv to open it as a spreadsheet, tab-separated

Re: [Wikisource-l] Djvulibre routines into Labs

2013-11-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Alex Brollo, 28/11/2013 11:38: I (painfully) opened a bug into Bugzilla asking for djvulibre binaries installation into Labs. Any new about? Were they already installed and I asked unusefully? Are they - as I presume - a necessary tool for wikisource? What's mising?

Re: [Wikisource-l] BookManagerv2

2013-12-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
AFAIK the only known status update is Project was mostly finished, but still has some bugs. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_Past_Projects#Improve_support_for_book_structures Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

Re: [Wikisource-l] BookManagerv2

2013-12-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 02/12/2013 10:23: Mmmm: http://blog.mollywhite.net/ it seems she changed the blog, but where is the old one? Disappeared, it seems. There's an archived copy at http://archive.is/4rtiE Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikidata-l] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0

2013-12-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Denny Vrandečić, 07/12/2013 00:59: Thanks for reviving this thread, Luiz. I also wanted to ask whether we should be updating parts of DNB and similar data. Maybe not create new entries, but for those that we already have, add some of the available data and point to the DNB dataset? Or maybe

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikidata-l] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0

2013-12-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 09/12/2013 12:40: I think there is only one (paid) user working on the site right now. That's my definition of inactive :-) I exhibit a counterexample: https://openlibrary.org/recentchanges shows at least 2 users editing in the last hour. Your lemma is disproven. ;-) Nemo

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Collection Extension (Not rendering to formats other than PDF)

2013-12-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Matthew Walker, 13/12/2013 01:20: Just wanted to post to this list that I have just reverted the offending commit that was causing the Collection extension to not be able to render to any format other than PDF (bugs 58151 [1], 57975 [2], and 57920 [3].) I understand that these bugs were causing

Re: [Wikisource-l] upload from InternetArchive tool

2014-01-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 27/01/2014 10:54: We should improve Help pages then. I think it's kinda easy to create a .zip file from a folder of raw scans with the suffix _images.zip You just have to write it crystal clear :-) When I wrote

[Wikisource-l] Internet Archive admins available?

2014-02-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
FYI, I added: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Internet_Archive#Admins_who_are_also_Wikisourcerors. Hydriz and emijrp are admins of some wikiteam collection(s) too, but they're not so active in Wikisource; if there's anyone else, please add your name. :) Nemo

Re: [Wikisource-l] Need Import templates from EN.WS

2014-04-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
David Cuenca, 14/04/2014 12:03: If we manage to have a method to transfer a standard set of templates to any wikisource, that would be helpful for them, and eventually any new wikisource project. We already have a method. Just make a list of such templates on a wiki page. Nemo

Re: [Wikisource-l] Need Import templates from EN.WS

2014-04-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
David Cuenca, 14/04/2014 12:32: It might be quite a lot of work to decide which ones are the minimum set of templates. Sure. That's the work. Does the list need to be formatted in any particular way? No. From where should be the templates be from? From the wiki where they live.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Community logo for Wikisource

2014-04-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Luiz Augusto, 18/04/2014 00:37: I and [[User:Danilo.mac]] ve created some proposals of community logos, as in the same spirit the Wikimedia Community logo was created years ago. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_Community_Logo_globe_notext.svg

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Fwd: Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1

2014-06-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andrea Zanni, 04/06/2014 11:46: Hello everyone. I would like to remind all that the toolserver will stop working in July (see forwarded mail). Does anybody know about the status of migration of Phe's statistical tools? http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php?diff=1 There is something but I

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Fwd: Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1

2014-06-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
David Cuenca, 04/06/2014 12:06: Regarding Tesseract, I read on the WM-FR proposal form there are plans to improve the OCR https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Proposal_form#Contributing_to_the_development_of_tools_that_respond_to_our_needs

Re: [Wikisource-l] At Wikimania, having a WS chat about Cirrus Search might be useful

2014-06-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
billinghurst, 21/06/2014 17:03: doesn't gel for how we might implement things in a better way. Can you elaborate/clarify this sentence? I don't understand what it means and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gel#Verb didn't help. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch is supposed to be

Re: [Wikisource-l] OCR for Persian

2014-06-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Amir Ladsgroup, 24/06/2014 15:37: I have access to huge resources of old books in Persian (some of them are even typed) and almost all of them can be imported to Wikisource but the problem is I don't have (or know) any OCR for Persian, Do you know which OCR software supports Persian (supporting

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource in 2008

2014-09-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Curious to read from Anthere six years later: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2008-October/030761.html Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] mul: interwiki now exists

2014-09-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
This is wonderful, many thanks to TTO (User:This, that and the other). Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC

2014-09-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2] We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool) in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a new backend

Re: [Wikisource-l] Two requests for MediaViewer

2014-10-01 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Alex Brollo, 01/10/2014 08:32: * While supporting multiple page djvu, to implement a tool to copy into clipboard with a click from displayed djvu page: (1) pure text layer, (2) lisp-like mapped text layer structure at line or word detail, (3) xml mapped text-layer (Alex brollo) * While

Re: [Wikisource-l] [BEIC] METS and structural map

2014-10-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thomas Tanon, 06/10/2014 11:00: Thanks a lot Federico for this email and sorry for the late reply. I'll try to get some time to see how METS works on the next few days. If this standard is compatible with ProofreadPage assumptions it would be very nice to implement in the extension an API

Re: [Wikisource-l] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC

2014-10-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
We start in 30 min from now :) Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51: Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2] We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool) in general and PDF

[Wikisource-l] Render devanagari characters properly in PDFs of wikisource

2014-10-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Can anyone confident with Devanagari tell me what's the status of http://web.archive.org/web/20111002214321/http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/687 ? Example (shortened URL):

Re: [Wikisource-l] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC

2014-10-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
, valhallasw`cloud. (And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.) Nemo Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33: We start in 30 min from now :) Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51: Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: PDF output does't render ProofreadPage's pages / tag

2014-10-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Ancient issue, I suppose, but wasn't filed before the bug day. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71822 Please report other issues with Wikisource pages! Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] How to retrieve text layer from a djvu page by API

2014-10-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Alex Brollo, 24/10/2014 23:30: I'd like to get text layer of a djvu page, just as proofread extension does, by an API call or any exotic trick, in different settings from the usual trigger condition (the creation of a new page). Is this possible? I browsed API doc but I failed. It should be

[Wikisource-l] New release of unpaper

2014-10-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Unpaper is the tool to crop and otherwise prepare scans to be OCR'd. There was a new release the other day and the maintainer has several interesting posts. https://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/unpaper https://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/unpaper Nemo ___

Re: [Wikisource-l] New release of unpaper

2014-10-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Alex Brollo, 29/10/2014 15:59: Could it be installed into ToolLabs? Is it already running there? It's not installed currently, but I see there is a package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/unpaper So you can ask, as usual:

Re: [Wikisource-l] New release of unpaper

2014-10-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
scann, 29/10/2014 16:37: I think that there are better options to install in ToolLabs, like ScanTailor or Spreads, which actually have functions such as dewarping, which unpaper doesn't have. BTW, those tools can be tested in Windows or Mac. There are always cases in which one does better than

Re: [Wikisource-l] Epub download

2014-11-05 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Yes, everyone please try! Nemo P.s.: Andrea Zanni, 05/11/2014 17:26: But I always thought that the link was not visible enough... ...and if only you had made the same edit to link Special:Book when I asked it maybe someone would have seen the stats and funded some Collection extension

Re: [Wikisource-l] Again on funding for sister projects

2014-11-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, 26/11/2014 12:53: Again, money is not the problem. Well, APG is about money so they talk about money there. But I do remember WMF coming at us and asking what's the legitimacy of spending resources (not necessarily financial) on sister projects. That drives me crazy.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Again on funding for sister projects

2014-11-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Juan de Vojníkov, 28/11/2014 15:10: I thought WMF board is chosen by Wikimedians Wrong. Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Again on funding for sister projects

2014-11-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Juan de Vojníkov, 28/11/2014 19:28: Really? And what are those elections on Meta time by time. Assistance to cooptation. Can we chose our representatives in WMF leading body? * Representatives are not allowed by WMF bylaws according to WMF legal. ** «Board members are required by law to

Re: [Wikisource-l] Structured data: use of schema.org's structured data for Wikisource works (or similar)

2014-12-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
There's always been a lot of discussion about page metadata and microdata but never any conclusion. At some point I was tricked into believing that it.source used microdata (https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:Qualità/Semantizzazione ?), but clearly it doesn't.

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Book extension and navigation

2015-01-06 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Bjoern, I don't know whether BookManagerv2 is able to feed Collection; I asked a few months ago at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28448#302254 (cc Raylton), you could file the request as separate bug. A comment says «Extension:BookManager, which provides both automatic navigation and

Re: [Wikisource-l] VIAF aligning to Wikidata is helpful for Wikisource

2015-03-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Daniel Mietchen, 29/03/2015 03:06: So I assume that it would be best for VIAF to only link to the corresponding Wikidata item, from where all relevant pages across Wikimedia projects and languages can be reached. Indeed. That's what I thought they would be doing... Nemo

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: Proposal: restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites

2015-02-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Please participate in the global discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Proposal:_restore_normal_editing_permissions_on_all_mobile_sites [...] What few know is that the mobile sites don't follow the standard permission system: instead, they override permissions and

[Wikisource-l] The Chinese government cares about Wikisource

2015-03-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
«According to the report on zhwiki and tests on greatfire.org, only http://zh.wikisource.org/, http://zh.wikinews.org/, and http://ug.wikipedia.org/ are still blocked, which I think are blocked based on URL rather than IP. All other Wikimedia sites, (http and https) are not blocked now.»

[Wikisource-l] Hackathon events

2015-05-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
I realised that in the hectic series of introductions, chats, tutorials and i18n fixes I forgot to look at what other Wikisource people were doing at the hackathon other than the Wikisource table where https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015/Program Tpt and Coren stood out

Re: [Wikisource-l] An idea for a diacritic marks tool

2015-07-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Alex Brollo, 28/07/2015 09:00: Much faster and comfortable than the usual, painful search for the needed exotic character into Special characters or into a Unicode table. abcTajpu often saved me: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/abctajpu/ Nemo

[Wikisource-l] FineReader 11 on Internet Archive

2015-10-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Today I rehearsed ScanTailor and unpaper to upload a rare book from WWI: https://archive.org/details/lettere-ferrovieri-patria I noticed the OCR is now "ABBYY FineReader 11"; IA only recently switched to 9 after many years on 8, this seems good news. If I see correctly, 11 claims: New and

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee

2015-11-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Still a couple days available to offer yourself as Wikimania scholarships committee member, or as ambassador for your community. Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[Wikimania-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee Data: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 21:11:05 + (UTC)

Re: [Wikisource-l] Large uploads to Wikisource

2015-10-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Arne Wossink, 15/10/2015 12:18: Wikimedia Nederland has recently approached by several institutions that would like to do uploads of source material. Wikisource would be the preferred platform for this as the material would be searchable (which it wouldn't be if it was only uploaded as pdf to

Re: [Wikisource-l] Watermark on Google scan.

2015-10-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy, 20/10/2015 17:18: Suppose that in future Google litigation Wikipedia for removing the page of Google claiming copyright The watermark is removed by the user, not by "Wikipedia". The user of course may be considered a criminal in USA (everyone is a criminal in USA; see

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google's Optical Character Recognition software now works with all South Asian languages

2015-08-30 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks for forwarding. Jayanta Nath, 30/08/2015 00:50: Any how can it be implemented in Proofread extension? With manual copy and paste only, as far as I can see. I don't think Google Drive has any API to extract text from uploaded files, though someone should check

Re: [Wikisource-l] Tech issues

2015-09-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Philippe Elie, 12/09/2015 04:44: FF 38 saw the page as a page redirected in a way FF can't solve. That was https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106793 , which also broke some JavaScripts or styles, but Erasmo said his problem happened with Chrome too. Nemo

Re: [Wikisource-l] Muiple page move to subpage with a fix Title/Subpage

2015-09-17 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jayanta Nath, 17/09/2015 19:55: Hi All, Are ther any bot or utility/tool for Muiple page move to subpage with a fix Title/Subpage. I'm afraid your best chance is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/movepages.py Nemo ___ Wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Tech issues

2015-09-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
What error do you see? Something like "connection refused"? How does your computer connect to the internet? Do things improve if you delete your cookies for the domains which don't work? Do you manage to perform some basic networking diagnostic e.g. with http://winmtr.net/ ? Nemo

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

2015-11-29 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Mathieu Stumpf Guntz, 29/11/2015 18:57: What about having both central and local versions? I mean, for community stuffs localization is clearly a big pro, and those who are more interesting to get extra-localized works could go to the central repository which would gather all localized

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

2016-01-05 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Bodhisattwa Mandal, 01/12/2015 16:35: 3) I cannot tell about other Indic languages, but I can say that Bengali is not included in FineReader version of IA. Ok, thanks for answering my question. What other languages are we interested in that are missing? See

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today

2016-01-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Reminder! Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today Data: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:55:30 -0600 Mittente: Ellie Young Reminder: Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, Italy on

[Wikisource-l] BUB is back

2016-01-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
FYI Rohit is being as fantastic as usual again. * https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3Atools.bub=-publicdate * https://github.com/rohit-dua/BUB/pulse Nemo ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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