Great step for WS Community On 16 Sep 2016 08:53, "Sam Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
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