Alex's idea is very bold and I like it: my only fear is that it's too bold and will never be implemented.
At the moment, we have not a proper alternative and independent environment for working with scans: I wonder if that should be something related to CropTool [1] or Commons in general. What I would like to see *now* (for the good is better than the best, if it's quicker) is a working IA-Upload, with a good support for djvu (because the internet archive's PDF is often very low quality). >From what I understood from Tpt, the IA-upload tool should already do that, but evidently there are issues at the moment. For people who know how to run a script from command line, a way to generate a djvu from IA is using Alex brollo's script [2] Ideally, I would see this script integrated with the IA Upload tool, so we can use the existing IA > ia_upload tool > Commons > Wikisource workflow, as usual. Many librarians are still using it. Aubrey [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/croptool/ [2] https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:Bot/Programmi_ in_Python_per_i_bot/djvuCl.py On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, at 07:36 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > I think that IA Upload tool is a critical step in the Wikisource workflow, > and I wonder if maybe Sam (as a Community Tech employee) could dedicate > some time to it. > Tpt can't maintain everything by himself... > For years, I've explained to *a lot* of GLAMs that uploading stuff on IA > and then using Wikisource is the way to do things, and I'm sure this is > the standard way in other places > too. > > > Yes, I agree: the IA-Commons-Wikisource workflow is a thing that should be > encouraged no end! :-) > > As far as my work-programming time goes, you (I say 'you' but I just mean > 'not-me', for CoI reasons) just need to get tickets onto the Community-Tech > board, then I can perhaps look at them. Which basically means they have to > contribute towards a Wishlist item. > > There's Wishlist #44: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120785 - *Implement > an Internet Archive-like digitalization service.* > I reckon it'd be great to be able to at least upload a PDF or Djvu with no > text layer, and have it create one (either on the same file, or to upload a > new derived file). > > —Sam > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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