Thx for your report and thanks to everyone involved in the development of Wikisource.
FYI, Wikimedia France bought a book scanner (this DIY bookscanner [1]). It will be operational in the coming weeks in the Paris office. Pyb [1] http://www.bookscanner.fr/about-this-bookscanner.html 2014-08-11 16:07 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca <[email protected]>: > Thanks to everyone who came to the Wikisource meetup at Wikimania 2014. We > had a very nice talk and it was wonderful to get to know each other in > person! > > Some of the topics that were discussed at the first Wikisource Community > User Group meet up: > - lack of OCR for Belarusian and other languages -> I just sent an email > to the Tesseract list to see what could we do about it > - what to do with "wikisource.org" (oldwikisource) -> probably it is > worth creating a mul.* domain so we can connect it with Wikidata. It needs > broader discussion / promotion > - Wikidata -> not clear what to do with "Index:" pages, needs some thought > about how to move that metadata to Wikidata. Consider that the relationship > between the "index" (supporting/containing media, closer to Commons) and > the edition item (version of a work) is not always 1:1. Perhaps, using > "part of" or "published in" could be used here, but as said it needs > thinking and work on some use cases (let's be brave creating properties and > examples on test.wikidata.org) > - tabular data (csv) -> wikisource could host such sources if there is > enough interest and a technical solution to manage this kind of > information. Needs more discussion, and gather tech support. > - user engagement -> proposed to gamify proofreading. Identified potential > interested partners, if we don't manage to get support, it can be thought > as a GsoC next year. > - advocacy -> wikisourcerors are encouraged to contact their nearest > wikimedia chapter to look for support and raise awareness about the issues > that need attention. These kind of trust relationships are necessary to > organize the next proofreading contest. Chapters should be aware that with > just 100eur in prizes and help reaching out (for instance banners on > Wikipedia) a lot of things can be accomplished by volunteers like us. > - outreach -> tell GLAM members about wikisource so when they contact with > libraries they can promote wikisource as well (and not only > wikipedia/commons) > - open access -> identified as a high potential project for wikisource. It > needs some automatic text verification so we don't waste volunteers time > proofreading digital born documents. > - social -> more boldness needed! Let's not be afraid of changing things > to make the project more attractive for readers (for instance cover > galleries on the main page, or try collaborative or experimental tools). > More contact wished with the German community. Promote Wikisource on social > platforms and on GLAM newsletters. > - adminship -> it was proposed to promote Tpt to global steward so he can > help better new communities. It was also proposed that experienced members > could mentor wikisourcerors from new communities so they get to know all > the tools/hidden gems that we have. > > Besides this year there were several wikisource related submissions > - Wikisource technical infrastructure-> Tpt presented his advances on the > visual editor integration and on the new beta feature "sister projects" to > be deployed in the next weeks [1]. Xelgen presented the advances of his > grant project for new Wikisource tools [2]. > - Crowdsourcing the Digitization of Ben-Yehuda's Dictionary -> Asaf > presented his Hebrew crowd-sourced dictionary project [3] > - Wikisource panel -> Charles Matthews, Magnus Manske et al. explained > what is Wikisource about, possible options to gamify it, and its possible > role as a host of tabular data [4] > - Reform citation structure -> where several panelists explained the new > landscape of citations that is coming with Wikidata. I presented Wikisource > very briefly, to raise awareness of our project and the role it plays > supporting Wikipedia [5] > - From paper to digital book on Wikisource -> where Xelgen described the > best techniques to digitize a book and convert it into a digital one [6] > > I hope I didn't forget anything... there was *a lot* of Wikisource this > year at Wikimania :) > > Thanks > Micru > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Tools_for_Armenian_Wikisource_and_beyond > [3] https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Old_New_Thing.pdf > [4] > https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Panel:_Wikisource,_from_digitization_to_data > [5] > https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Reform_of_citation_structure_for_all_Wikimedia_projects > [6] > https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/From_paper_book_to_a_digital_one_on_Wikisource > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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