Hello everyone, before talking again about this let me say that I think we
have a "major" bug in the IA-upload:
sometimes, the OCR is not aligned between the pages, meaning you have the
right OCR but it's shown for the following page...

Aubrey

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is very cool news. :)
>
> One possibly not-too-onerous feature would be to permit upload of other
> file types other than DjVu (e.g. PDF). Or there's the whole topic of
> creating/finding Wikidata items for the books uploaded, and updating them
> with the IA identifier. That'd probably require the uploading user to
> specify a Wikidata ID though — which is what the {{book}} template on
> Commons should work from anyway, in my opinion (because it can't be done
> via a sitelink).
>
> I'm very happy to help with whatever I can!
>
> —sam
>
> On Wed, 10 May 2017, at 09:38 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> Wikimedia Italia put in its budget 3000€ for Wikisource-related work.
> When we discussed this, months ago, we thought about paying a developer
> for
> the DJVU issue of the IA-Upload tool,
> which then has been resolved by our beloved Sam Wilson.
>
> The tool is still not perfect (I often get errors), so maybe some
> development is still needed, but I'd ask you (especially technically
> skilled people like Tpt, Sam, Philippe, etc.) if you think there is some
> low-hanging fruit that could be reached with that kind of budget.
> Of course, we will be looking for developers, so if you want to propose
> yourself for something, please do! ;-)
>
> Aubrey
>
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