@Bodhisattwa and Mahir, Thanks for the inclusion of Tamil.json.
Working fine. I will make a screencast about the usage of this tool for Tamil community https://sangkalak.toolforge.org/?lang=ta&edition=ta If you give GitHub/GitLab link, I will furnish few cosmetic changes as issues. On Sun, 20 Jul 2025, 23:35 Bodhisattwa, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Wikisourcerers, > > I would like to present a digital library catalogue built for Wikisource > named Sangkalak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123617697> (in Bangla > সংকলক), which you can find here - https://sangkalak.toolforge.org . This > tool was primarily built for Bangla Wikisource back in 2023 as a Wikidata's > birthday gift > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Presents> and > is widely used in that project since then. It was previously presented at > the GLAM Wiki Conference 2023 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikisource_and_Wikidata:_when_two_cool_kids_play_together!> > and Wikisource Conference 2025 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Conference_2025/Submissions/Wikidata_and_Bangla_Wikisource:_When_two_cool_kids_play_together!>. > After a presentation at the recent Wikidata and sister projects > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects> online > event, it was decided to make this tool available for other languages > Wikisources as well and hence it can be used by any language Wikisource > communities from now, if they wish. However, as it was primarily built for > the Bangla community, the default interface language shall be Bangla. > > You can search the books using 5 parameters like title, author, > translator, editor and publisher using 4 functions i.e. contains, exact > match, starts with and ends with along with and/or operators. You can query > as many times as possible using these parameters, functions and operators > by simply adding new lines. After querying for results, you can sub-filter > the results again for authors, translators, editors, publishers, places of > publication, dates of publication, forms, genres and main subjects at the > left sidebar. The tool provides the option to get permanent links, so that > you can use them on Wikisource and elsewhere. The tool can be accessed from > mobile also. > > The tool is dependent on Wikidata based query and strictly follows the > FRBR data model described at Wikidata:Books > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books>. So, if any > Wikisource community is correctly storing the descriptive metadata on > Wikidata following this page, their books can be searched in this > catalogue. Please note that, if the data model is not followed properly on > Wikidata, the books may not come in results, for which you can resolve > constraint violations in those relevant items, as necessary. > > The tool only queries for those items which use P1957 > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957>. If any item has a > sitelink to Wikisource, the tool links to the corresponding Wikisource main > namespace and gives options to export the books with PDF, Mobi and Epub > formats using the WS-export tool. If the sitelinks have proofread and > validated badges, it displays them. If the item does not have a sitelink to > Wikisource, it links to the index namespaces. The tool also displays QR > codes for mobile users. Support for OPDS > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_Distribution_System> is > underway. > > The interface languages of the tool are currently Bangla and English. > However, if you want this tool to be available in your language, you can > translate the strings in the json file attached below, save it and send it > back to us, so that we can include them in the code. > > I would like to specially thank Mahir Morshed who has been developing this > tool in his volunteer capacity. > > Regards, > Bodhisattwa > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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