@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
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