2012/3/12 Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>: > Dear Wikisourcerors, > I'm planning to go to Wikimania and submit a speech, which goes like: > *Wikisource: what we've done, what we could do better* (or "What we > got right, what we'd get better") > http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikisource:_what_we%27ve_done,_what_we_could_do_better > > Anyway, the idea is very simple: > 1. We need to talk about Wikisource at Wikimania. Period.
I submitted a talk about Wikisource, too: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_hundred-year_old_websites The idea of my talk is to show how Wikisource projects are useful in real life in surprising ways. Admittedly, some projects mentioned there are my own pet projects. My plan was that for the Malayalam Wikisource part i would invite a guest speaker; from what i heard about it, this project deserves a whole talk of its own, but if no-one else steps up, it will a part of mine. I'm *totally* open for ideas. For example, my talk can be a part of series of talks or of a panel. Or i could add other projects that anybody would suggest to my talk. Or i can do a short presentation as part of another talk, if anybody believes that this would be more efficient. > Nonetheless, Wikisources suffers significant flaws, as a proper > metadata system (Dublin Core metadata, OAI-MPH complaint system), > which prevents us to collaborate with > other projects, as Europeana, or other digital libraries. > > Now, I'm writing you to ask you if such a panel/workshop would be interesting, > and to ask you if it would be better, with your help, to create a > panel in which some of us describe the best aspects and features of > their Wikisource. It would definitely interest me. It would definitely interest many more people, but you should be careful about using too much lingo. Librarians and information scientists will love words like "Dublin Core metadata" and "OAI-MPH complaint system", but other people will be scared away. So please do talk about what these things are and how they will be useful, but don't emphasize the professional jargon too much in the abstract and in the slides. (I organized the schedule for a Wikimania just a few short months ago. Trust me.) Another huge thing that is missing from Wikisource is a better way to organize proofread pages into exportable books. People come up with projects that are supposed to fix that every now and then, but nothing substantial came out of it yet (unless i'm missing some elephant in the room). This could be mentioned -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
