I would be happy to ask money to Wikimedia France. But right now, I don't know what is the most important thing to develop on Wikisource. It's clearly not Annotation and TEI. If it is Epub or OCR. Could someone describe what do you need ? An idea of the cost would be great, but just few sentences describing the project would be useful.
Pyb 2014-11-26 13:25 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>: > I don't think that money is "strictly" the problem. > I just think that if sister projects (well, I'll talk about Wikisource > here) would be "in the minds" of developers and project managers, they > would really scale. > I mean: the WMF thinks all the time about Wikipedia. > They have staff on it who thinks about software maintenance, software > development, editor retention, GLAM relationships, and I could go on and > on. > Why sister project do not fit in *any* of this? > > *Everything* which has been done on Wikisource has been done by volunteers > (sometime by the chapters). > All the crucial software developments I know (the proofread page, for > example) has been done by ThomasV, Tpt, Phe (I personally don't know > others). > The community recently thought about Google Summer of Codes to have people > deveops tools and piece of software. They do, but then it's almost > impossible to really integrate them in the main software, so they are left > there. > The Individual Engagement Grant that me and David did was simply aimed to > gather the community and try to do things together, spread the good ideas, > join scattered individuals and communities. > We had some results, that the WMF could take and build upon (think about > the survey). > > I'm getting a little tired, every year at Wikimania, to hear the same > praise of Wikisource by WMF Board or Staff but being told that we are > "supported" but not in the "priority list". > I would think that there are some many low hanging fruits that donors > money would be well spent (ie. the Wikisource contest that is running now > on several Wikisources. In Italy, the chapter gave 100 euros for the > prizes, and we gained 4300 proofread pages in a single week (it takes 6 > months for the community to get those numbers)). > > I'm sorry if I sound like a broken record, but it's my perception that a > minimal effort from the WMF could lead to major results. I still don't > understand why they do not think about that. > > Aubrey > > PS: I think about the WMF because for chapters is more difficult to step > in and work on core software related matters. Chapters can and do work on > GLAM partnerships, liasons, collaboration, digitization plans. "Local" > stuff. At least, that is my perception (also, as a chapter president). > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Pierre-Yves Beaudouin < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Again, money is not the problem. Chapters may probably help Wikisource. >> Crowdfunding could also be a solution. >> >> Pyb >> >> 2014-11-26 12:38 GMT+01:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>: >> >> See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Staff_ >>> proposal_assessment_form : there seems to still be an assumption that >>> Wikipedia is ok by default while everything else needs to be justified. >>> >>> Nemo >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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