I think the idea is good, but I would like to try that in my wikisource: could you manage to take also the few italian books that PG has? Thanks!
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Anika Born <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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