> Yes, the Hackathon would certainly be a good place to send Tpt! :-D Definitely ;-) I have already booked the hackathon week-end on my calendar!
Cheers, Thomas > Le 17 déc. 2015 à 18:37, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Yes, the Hackathon would certainly be a good place to send Tpt! :-D > > Also, other technically skilled users who want to join, and can help other > developers to solve issue regarding Wikisource. > > Aubrey > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Anika Born <[email protected]> wrote: > Quim Gil also mentioned the Hackathon 2016 in Israel (Thursday to Sunday > March 31 - April 4) may be a good opportunity to address some wishes > regarding Wikisource, especially to the hebrew(-RTL)-community. > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119703 > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826 > > I had the pleasure to meet Quim at the Wikiconventions 2014 and 2015 in > Cologne and Dresden. It made me happy today, to see he is (also) interested > in the (software)development of this project. > > I think that is a very good opportunity for Wikisource. Let's use it. > > > Anika > > 2015-12-16 22:17 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>: > FYI: Danny was saying good things towards us in a Wikimedia-l thread, so I > replied as you see below. > Good job, guys. > > Aubrey > > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Danny Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > The Wikisource community did a tremendous job in showing up and giving > support to the Wikisource proposals. The top wishes in that category got 41 > and 39 votes, which is really impressive considering the relative size of > the projects. > > The discussion on using Google's OCR in Indic language Wikisource is > especially interesting -- a lively debate about finding the right solution > to what is clearly a deeply-felt need from a community that's working > really hard to add their languages' knowledge to the movement. I hope that > having that debate here is a step towards a larger discussion about how we > can support Wikisource projects. > > > Thanks, Danny. > In the Wikisource Conference, held in Vienna from 20 to 22 November, we > discussed a lot about what Wikisource needs to reach it's full potential as a > project. We decided to agree on a priority list (here: > https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs) and also to participate in > the Survey. > > But, if you feel brave enough, there is the whole 665 lines Etherpad here: > https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015weekend [1] > > Wikisource, as a project, is completely dependent on the Proofread Page > Extension [2]. > Unfortunately, the extension is maintained by volunteers only (I think, just > one: Tpt). > Also, the extension doesn't support RTL languages: so Wikisources in arabic, > hebrew, farsi, indic languages don't really work as the others. > > This is to be added to the fact that there is no good embedded OCR for Indic > languages, right now. > > And, finally, to the simple fact that we'd love to have the Visual Editor, > *within* the ProofreadPage Extension, as Wikisource uses a *lot* of > formatting, and that could enable many, many more users in proofreading and > validating pages. > > Of course, we are a small community, but we're trying really hard to make our > case. > At the moment, to the best of my knowledge, there is no, and there's never > been, any software development dedicated to Wikisource from the WMF. > > Aubrey > (also a member of the Wikisource Community User Group) > > > [1] I hereby claim this as the longest Etherpad written by a group of > wikimedians (~40). I hope there is a prize for it. You can even read the > Wikisource mission forged and translated in real time in 21 languages (line > 564). > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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