I think the idea is good,

but I would like to try that in my wikisource:

could you manage to take also the few italian books that PG has?

Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Anika Born <WikiAnika@wikipedia.de> wrote:

corr1: [...] does not ha*ve*/show the scans, [...]

Anika

2016-10-14 8:18 GMT+02:00 Anika Born <WikiAnika@wikipedia.de>:

Hy Sam, 

would be good, cause PG does not hat/show the scans, 

But

as I remember there was/is a policy at de.ws to not use texts from other projects (say: if there is text A in PG, there won't be a similar text A in de.WS), 

cause at the time de.WS did use PG-texts... Google said WS is a mirror of PG and all other (not PG)-texts were left out in Google-Search-Results as well....  The (small) visibility of WS got lost completely... That is the reason, why there are no new projects on de-WS about texts that are available in a (nearly) similar project 

(besides the effort: why spending so much time on a text that already is avilable? - you'd have to proofread ist at least two times)

But that is this special German-thing..... 

What do the others think about it? 

Anika

2016-10-14 3:20 GMT+02:00 Sam Wilson <sam@samwilson.id.au>:

Hi all,

I've been tinkering with an idea I've had for importing Project Gutenberg books into Wikisource: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pg2ws/

The idea is that, if Wikidata makes a link between a PG ID number and a Wikisource Index page, then we can go through that Index page one page at a time, and copy the page's text from the PG book to the WS page.

The interface so far isn't very brilliant, but I'm just trying to figure out if this is worthwhile or not. Basically, it's a matter of selecting the right chunk of text in the right-most text box (the full PG text) and hitting the button to move it left into the centre box. Then cleaning it up (manually and with the magic cleaning button) to make it match the image, and then uploading it to Wikisource.

It's a bad tool though, because it doesn't handle the running header, and the copy-across button doesn't do nice things with {{hws}} etc. — not to mention all the other things it doesn't do.

Anyway, just thought I'd mention it. :-) Anyone think this is an avenue worth exploring? Certainly I'd love to be able to say we've got everything PG has and more!

—Sam

PS changes made by this tool are all tagged as "OAuth CID: 638" —

https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=OAuth+CID%3A+638

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