Good news for Wikisource Community. Cheers!! Jayanta
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sam, > > Congratulations for joining the community tech team. > > And also many many thanks for what all you have done for the OCR issue of > Indic Wikisource communities. It's because of amazing people like you, > Kaldari and Shrinivasan, the crisis is almost over and the projects have > got the much-needed momentum. > > Best wishes, > Bodhisattwa > On Sep 16, 2016 12:53 PM, "Thomas Tanon" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Sam, >> >> Congratulations! That's amazing! I really hope you will be able to keep >> making the Wikisource tech backlog lower [1]. >> >> Congrats again, >> >> Thomas >> >> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikisource/ >> >> >> > Le 16 sept. 2016 à 05:23, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> a écrit : >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I've recently started working on the Community Tech team >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech at the Wikimedia >> > Foundation. So I just wanted to say hi and that I'm really excited to be >> > able to work on Wikimedia code full-time! :-) >> > >> > Community Tech is all about helping build tools that support >> > contributors, and basically takes its work-list from the annual >> > Community Wishlist Survey: >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results >> > >> > For the last couple of weeks I've been working on a tool to bring better >> > OCR to indic-language Wikisources, via Google's Cloud Vision API: >> > https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR >> > >> > I'm not at all exclusively working on Wiksource stuff of course, not by >> > a long shot. But that's still where my personal interest lies, and so if >> > anyone's got any ideas about future software development that we need >> > then I'm keen to help if I can. And this year's Wishlist Survey will be >> > happening before too long, so get ready to list stuff there! >> > >> > Lastly, please be gentle with me as I try to figure out how to shift to >> > life not-as-a-volunteer! (Although I'm still a volunteer too.) I'm >> > trying very hard to be transparent and professional and not blur the >> > various roles.... gets confusing though! :-) >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Sam. >> > >> > -- >> > [[User:Samwilson]] >> > [[User:SWilson (WMF)]] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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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