Please don't underestimate the critical point of editing interface and
editing tools (even if *small*...), proofreading is the core of wikisource
work and it is presently the bottle neck - any minor success about
proofreading comfort, speed & precision is highly valuable and really
effective.


Alex


2016-11-16 13:29 GMT+01:00 David Cuenca Tudela <[email protected]>:

> I like the idea of finishing the development of BookManager2, it is a pity
> that the code was not reviewed
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BookManagerv2
>
> Cheers,
> Micru
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I made a draft on a proposal here:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Surv
>> ey/Categories/Wikisource#Make_Wikisource_.22book-based.22
>>
>> Please edit, it's a draft and I think it's a problem many of us know from
>> a long time.
>>
>> The idea is that, if we had a system for MediaWiki to know what a book
>> is,
>> we could
>> * better metadata management system, thus a better integration with
>> Wikidata
>> * we could develop better tools, for example create automatic Indexes and
>> navigation templates, which would maybe enable us to "import" EPUBs
>> directly on Wikisource
>> * have a better workflow, making it easier to new users to use us
>> * have even better statistics and analytics: which are the *books* (not
>> the pages!) which are read o WIkisource?
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> IMHO, the Community Wishlist is a great opportunity to push for a
>> systemic development of Wikisource: I'm convinced we don't need little
>> tools here and there, but a systematic overview of what Wikisource
>> framework, workflows and software.
>> I'm open to discuss the merging of different proposals in the Wishlist.
>>
>> Aubrey
>>
>>
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