Excellent news! Congratulations. A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Lead Program Officer, Community Development Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 4:46 AM Bodhisattwa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > Thanks for your interest. > > Most of the works are in Bangla and English languages. For now, we are > focusing on Bangla language works to use them on Bangla Wikisource but at > some point time of the project, we will be digitizing English books too. > Because of resource constraints and to avoid duplication of efforts, we are > selecting only those editions whose scan copies are not freely available > on the internet and this filtering is taking some of our time. The library > is also prioritizing some of their books to be digitized because of their > actual physical condition or rarity. > > Regarding the contents of the works, they have wide variety of subjects, > both fictions and non-fictions and some definitely have illustrations > which, I am sure, can be used on other Wikimedia sites. The library also > contains periodicals and a few manuscripts in their collection. > > If you have information of any public domain books available in the > library, which has not been digitized anywhere and you need them to be > digitized by us, please ping us at the project talk page and we can of > course forward that request to the library to give us access to those books > for digitization. > > Hopefully, at least one person from this project will be there at the > February conference. > > Regards, > Bodhisattwa > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 00:25 Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 at 17:53, Bodhisattwa <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > A Wikimedian-in-residence has been trained and assigned to digitize the >> public >> > domain collections of the library, who will be responsible for >> selection, digitization >> > and uploading of the contents on Wikimedia sites. >> >> This is very good news. >> >> Please can you tell us more about the works to be uploaded? What >> languages are they in? Do they include illustrations, which will be of >> use to Wikimedia projects in other languages? Are they factual, or >> fiction? On what subjects? >> >> Will there be a facility to request digitisation of particular works? >> >> Will anyone from the project be at the Wikisource conference in February? >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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