Alex's idea is very bold and I like it: my only fear is that it's too bold and will never be implemented.

At the moment, we have not a proper alternative and independent environment for working with scans: I wonder if that should be something related to CropTool [1] or Commons in general.

What I would like to see *now* (for the good is better than the best, if it's quicker)

is a working IA-Upload, with a good support for djvu (because the internet archive's PDF is often very low quality).

From what I understood from Tpt, the IA-upload tool should already do that,

but evidently there are issues at the moment.

For people who know how to run a script from command line,

a way to generate a djvu from IA is using Alex brollo's script [2]

Ideally, I would see this script integrated with the IA Upload tool, so we can use the existing

IA > ia_upload tool > Commons > Wikisource

workflow, as usual. Many librarians are still using it.

Aubrey

[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/croptool/
[2] https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:Bot/Programmi_in_Python_per_i_bot/djvuCl.py

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Sam Wilson <sam@samwilson.id.au> wrote:

On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, at 07:36 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:

I think that IA Upload tool is a critical step in the Wikisource workflow,

and I wonder if maybe Sam (as a Community Tech employee) could dedicate some time to it.

Tpt can't maintain everything by himself...

For years, I've explained to *a lot* of GLAMs that uploading stuff on IA

and then using Wikisource is the way to do things, and I'm sure this is the standard way in other places

too.

Yes, I agree: the IA-Commons-Wikisource workflow is a thing that should be encouraged no end! :-)

As far as my work-programming time goes, you (I say 'you' but I just mean 'not-me', for CoI reasons) just need to get tickets onto the Community-Tech board, then I can perhaps look at them. Which basically means they have to contribute towards a Wishlist item.

There's Wishlist #44: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120785 - Implement an Internet Archive-like digitalization service.

I reckon it'd be great to be able to at least upload a PDF or Djvu with no text layer, and have it create one (either on the same file, or to upload a new derived file).

—Sam

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