corr1: [...] does not ha*ve*/show the scans, [...] Anika
2016-10-14 8:18 GMT+02:00 Anika Born <[email protected]>: > Hy Sam, > > would be good, cause PG does not hat/show the scans, > > But > > as I remember there was/is a policy at de.ws to not use texts from other > projects (say: if there is text A in PG, there won't be a similar text A in > de.WS), > > cause at the time de.WS did use PG-texts... Google said WS is a mirror of > PG and all other (not PG)-texts were left out in Google-Search-Results as > well.... The (small) visibility of WS got lost completely... That is the > reason, why there are no new projects on de-WS about texts that are > available in a (nearly) similar project > > (besides the effort: why spending so much time on a text that already is > avilable? - you'd have to proofread ist at least two times) > > > But that is this special German-thing..... > > > What do the others think about it? > Anika > > 2016-10-14 3:20 GMT+02:00 Sam Wilson <[email protected]>: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been tinkering with an idea I've had for importing Project Gutenberg >> books into Wikisource: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pg2ws/ >> >> The idea is that, if Wikidata makes a link between a PG ID number and a >> Wikisource Index page, then we can go through that Index page one page at a >> time, and copy the page's text from the PG book to the WS page. >> >> The interface so far isn't very brilliant, but I'm just trying to figure >> out if this is worthwhile or not. Basically, it's a matter of selecting the >> right chunk of text in the right-most text box (the full PG text) and >> hitting the button to move it left into the centre box. Then cleaning it up >> (manually and with the magic cleaning button) to make it match the image, >> and then uploading it to Wikisource. >> >> It's a bad tool though, because it doesn't handle the running header, and >> the copy-across button doesn't do nice things with {{hws}} etc. — not to >> mention all the other things it doesn't do. >> >> Anyway, just thought I'd mention it. :-) Anyone think this is an avenue >> worth exploring? Certainly I'd love to be able to say we've got everything >> PG has *and more*! >> >> —Sam >> >> PS changes made by this tool are all tagged as "OAuth CID: 638" — >> >> https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentCh >> anges&tagfilter=OAuth+CID%3A+638 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> >
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