Dear All, I had represented the Kannada Wikisource community in the Indic Wikisource community consultation which was held in Kolkata on November 24th and 25th. The small and brief introduction was given by Jayantanth after this the following things were discussed:
- Stats tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/shrinitools/indic_ws_stats/>: Which gives the number of validated, proofread, w/o text etc. - Wsexport <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php>: Which allow you to download the books in different formats. - Indic OCR tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-ocr>: This tool will allow us to run OCR in page namespace for individual pages. - IA upload tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/>: This tool will help us to upload the books from Internet archive to commons. - URL2commons <https://tools.wmflabs.org/url2commons/index.html>: This tool will help us to upload books from any website. - Vicuna Uploader <http://yarl.github.io/vicuna/>: This tool will help us to upload books/images/videos in bulk to commons. - Fill Index Gadget <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Fill_Index.js>: This Gadget will fill the index page on Wikisource. - Hathi downloader <https://www.hathitrust.org/>: This tool will help to download the books in bulk. - Fatkun Batch Download Image <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fatkun-batch-download-ima/nnjjahlikiabnchcpehcpkdeckfgnohf/related?hl=en>: A chrome addon which will help you to download images in bulk. - ABBYY fine reader <https://finereaderonline.com/en-us>: This tool will help you to run the OCR locally. - Other tools like Briss, pdfshuffle Gscan2pdf, and Scantailor where discussed which help to process the books after scanning. - The workflow of the Wikisource was discussed. - Cleanup js <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Bodhisattwa/cleanup.js>: Help to clean up the text in a bulk after OCR. - OTRS process <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS> was discussed. - Hands-on session on OCR. - Discussion on the tools that the Indic community needed to do work efficiently on Wikisource. - A small presentation on Transclusion of the book. Thanks and Regards, *ANANTH SUBRAY P V* Programme Associate Access to Knowledge program The Centre for Internet & Society +91-9739811664 _______________________________________________ Wikikn-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l
