Ok, I'll use https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27245478 as an example and I'll submit it to it.source WD specialists to see if we can retrieve, or add data for a test work.
Alex 2016-10-16 1:28 GMT+02:00 Sam Wilson <[email protected]>: > Hm, it should work fine for it.ws too. Can you give me a WD item for a > book with a PG ID and a it.ws Index page? I'll investigate further... :-) > > One cool thing that I've only recently found is this list of PG's sources: > http://www.pgdp.net/c/tools/project_manager/show_image_sources.php (you > need to log in) > > It's not very structured, but it's the only place I've found that links a > PG ID to a scan on the Internet Archive or elsewhere. I'm thinking of > writing a scraper to get the data so that it can at least link more PG IDs > and IA identifiers on Wikidata. > > —Sam > > On 13/10/16 23:27, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing > [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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