Hi everyone, If there are volunteers interested in taking the lead on this, Wikimedia UK are prepared to provide prize(s) and people outside the UK would be eligible.
It's encouraging to see discussion about how to make the competition work. Richard On 9 November 2013 23:39, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Adam and all > > Defnyddiwr:Lloffiwr is an Admin on cy.ws: > > https://cy.wikisource.org/wiki/Defnyddiwr:Lloffiwr > > There aren't enough of us to enter the competition; but getting the > system ready for mass upload would be good. > > Diolch! > > Robin Owain > > > On 09 November 2013 at 21:48 Adam Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9 November 2013 02:21:48, Charles Matthews < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > The bare bones, for something on enWS, would be > > > > *choice from out of existing texts on WS of a range of works, none too > > hard to do (steer clear of special characters, heavy format and so on), > and > > *a page with links to the Index pages? > > > > With explanations of the traffic-light quality system, and an outline > of > > the competition rules. > > > Setting up a page will be easy but first, > > 1) Is Wikimedia UK going to back this? > 2) How is this going to work? > > > I'm not that familiar with all of the unfinished works on Wikisource at > the moment but I think we might need to upload some new ones too. > > If we do this, we need to work out what sort of works we want to use. > > I think works from the late Victorian era or twentieth century would be > the best choice. They probably won't have the special characters or > formatting issues, for the most part. Novels might be better than poetry; > the latter has less text but more formatting. More famous authors might > make sense but may also feel redundant; I don't know if people would want > to work on something that's already widely available elsewhere. I would > like to include some mid-twentieth century stuff, as a gentle reminder than > the public domain did not stop in 1900, but the only things I know that are > available are some issues of Amazing Stories that I had planned to work on > myself (which have some illustrations and a few pages with complicated > formatting). There should probably be some variety so people not > interested in one could swap to something else. > > > What are the competition rules? For example, do validations count? It > would be nice to include that aspect of the project. Does proofread of > non-competition list works count towards scoring? What if one person does > some proofreading but the page is completed by another? Will Wikimedia UK > award prizes to users outside the UK? Will Wikimedia UK award prizes?! > > Some of my suggested answers:- > * 2 points per proofread page > * 1 point per validated page > * Only works on the competition list count towards scoring > * Works proofread by multiple people have the points divided equally > among them, except... > ** Merely saving OCR'd text without proofreading doesn't count for > scoring > * Blank pages do not count towards scoring > * The importance of the location of the user is probably down to the > chapter > > > If cy.ws is getting in on this, they need their own page and we need to > decide if that is a separate competition or not. That is, will the most > prolific on cy.ws get an e-reader AND the most prolific on en.ws gets an > e-reader OR are they competing against each other for just one e-reader. > Is it just en & cy or will Wikimedia UK support other competitions? Will > it support a Polish or Bengali competition, for example, assuming they are > running one? NB: I cannot find any administrators on cy.ws, so I don't > know whom to ask. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Richard Nevell Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0753 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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