Congrats Sam. On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:49 manoj k, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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