...and for those who don't read Italian, the series of articles about this on Outreach may be helpful: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=beic&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Arne Wossink, 15/10/2015 12:18: > >> Wikimedia Nederland has recently approached by several institutions that >> would like to do uploads of source material. Wikisource would be the >> preferred platform for this as the material would be searchable (which >> it wouldn't be if it was only uploaded as pdf to Commons). >> >> I would like to know if there have been previous projects involving >> large uploads by institutions, and if there's any documentation on how >> to proceed with these. >> > > DjVU (and PDF?) files with a text layer *are* searchable in Commons since > CirrusSearch was enabled (September 2014). Of course the search is only as > good as the text: with poor OCR, it will be poor. > The main points are the same as for all batch uploads, see > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Guide_to_batch_uploading ; as > for actually creating pages in Wikisource, that's another matter, you must > consider what the goals are and have a good plan. > BEIC uploaded about 1000 books in 2015 and will upload more in the > future. We only created Index pages which we considered necessary and we > didn't touch namespace 0. See pointers at > https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/BEIC/2015-07 (search > "Wikisource") and > https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Collaborazioni/BEIC . > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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