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(a)wikipedia.de>
wrote:
corr1: [...] does not ha*ve*/show the scans,
[...]
Anika
2016-10-14 8:18 GMT+02:00 Anika Born <WikiAnika(a)wikipedia.de>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(a)samwilson.id.au>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:RecentCh
>> anges&tagfilter=OAuth+CID%3A+638
>>
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