Hi Bodhisattwa, regarding your first proposal, I'm not sure to understand the advantages of having hundreds thousands books in Commons, right now. Commons manages metadata poorly, Internet Archive is much more efficient. I do find that the added value is when the book is in WIkisource, but this means that we need people doing that, human curation. So I find IA upload tool perfect in this regard: it helps you do it when you want to do it, quickly.
For the second bot, I think the problem is simply that every wikisource is different, and creating good index pages is more art than science. Moreover, there is the problem I said before. But probably your situation is different: if you want to populate a *new* Wikisource, what you say makes sense. That would be a bot "on demand": you gave him a list of IA identifiers, he does all the work. Aubrey On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Two questions- > > 1) Is there any bot running which can use the IA upload tool to transfer > files from Internet Archive to Commons? I see lots and lots of public > domain files in IA but they are not present in Commons. Its next to > impossible to be done manually. > > 2) Is there any bot running, which can create index pages in respective > language Wikisources, whenever a pdf or djvu files are uploaded from IA? > > If they are not present, can theses bot accounts be created? > > Regards > -- > Bodhisattwa > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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