On 09/11/2013, fabian(a)unpopular.org.uk <fabian(a)unpopular.org.uk> wrote:
Yes I tried this . . . once. I create the DjVU file
and got it onto
commons but then when I tried to get it on Wikisource, I discovered there
were forbidden characters in the file name which I had not been warned
about before. After a bit more mucking about I gave up. All a bit
frustrating really.
This is one of the areas that having a chapter employee/named
wikisource expert help could sort out, doing this in parallel to the
competition might be a smart approach. Any volunteer that finds this
confusing and has a key document that would be of high value to the
projects, could just email a link or a photocopied document (via
freepost) to a chapter contact. Only good for a limited number of
documents and not whole books, but a good area to offer help, or
indeed a training event for those that need a push to learn how to DIY
and have some projects in mind (nods to cy.ws).
Creating a good djvu file (or even a pdf) is a bit of an art as with
standard free tools it can be hard or impossible to set embedded image
resolution etc.
I am surprised at the example of bad characters, I have stumbled
several times with these file name problems, but they should normally
be solvable using unicode in the right way or re-mapping the obvious
problem characters (like slashes to dashes). Right now I'm maintaining
a multi-language backlog table, knowing how to do this sort of thing
took me a long time to learn.[1] Not sure I would want to debug
everyone else's problems though. :-)
1. Example table
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading/Airliners/Priori…
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