Hello everyone,
As you might already know, Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation
runs a Community Wishlist Survey every year to identify the needs of active
Wikimedia contributors. 2020’s Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020> is focusing
on Wikimedia projects other than Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata, in order
to serve smaller projects. The Community Tech team will work on the top 5
proposals voted by the community.
Some of you might know me already but let me reintroduce myself. I am
Satdeep Gill and I work in the Community Programs (GLAM) team at the
Wikimedia Foundation, and my work is heavily focused on supporting
Wikisource, a digital library of public domain and freely-licensed
texts. While many languages written in latin and similar scripts have had
transcription projects such as Project Gutenberg running for many decades,
Wikisource is the only transcription platform for many languages,
especially those which use non-latin scripts.
I have been working on documenting various pain points and case studies
around Wikisource and I will be coordinating with the Community Tech team
if any of the Wikisource-related proposals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource>
get voted among the top 5 in Community Wishlist 2020. Voting runs until
December 2, 2019.
Based on a workshop I participated in recently with the Indic community at Wiki
Advanced Training 2019
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training/2019>
organized by CIS-A2K <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K>, I have
created a list of top priorities for the Indic Wikisource community. This
might be useful to the global Wikisource/GLAM community in evaluating
Wishlist proposals, and I have identified specific proposals that closely
match these priorities. They are:
1.
Tools/scripts across various Wikisources - There are many scripts/tools
that exist on some Wikisources and not on others. There isn’t enough
documentation available to easily localize and integrate them in other
Wikisources. (Similar to the proposal
Migrate_Wikisource_specific_edit_tools_from_gadgets_to_Wikisource_extension
2020 proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource#Migrate_Wikisource_specific_edit_tools_from_gadgets_to_Wikisource_extension>
)
2.
VisualEditor for Wikisource/Improving the Proofreading Interface -
Wikisource uses a lot of templates and VisualEditor for Wikisource needs to
be designed accordingly. (Similar to UI_improvements_on_Wikisource 2020
proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource#UI_improvements_on_Wikisource>
)
3.
Tool to integrate book viewing with pagelist creation and identity page
scan errors - the workflow for creating pagelist could be improved by an
integrated bookviewer for PDF/DJVU files improving the page identification
experience and allowing for adding/removing errored pages from a scanned
file. (Similar to the proposal Index creation wizard 2020 proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource#Index_creation_wizard>
)
Check the entire report from the Wiki Advanced Training at the link given
below:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2019/Contents/W…
Besides these, it might be worthwhile to consider the following proposal
around supporting inter-wiki links on Wikisource:
-
Inter-language_link_support_via_Wikidata 2020 proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource#Inter-language_link_support_via_Wikidata>
Once again, don't forget to vote on your favorite proposals before December
2, 2019 as the Community Tech team will be working on the top 5 voted
proposals.
Feel free to reach out to me at sgill(a)wikimedia.org, in case you want to
discuss any of the above, or to further discuss needs and strategies for
Wikisource.
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Regards,
Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>