Hi all,
2016-03-06 16:59 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>om>:
Of course I'll be there too.
An of course we should find a way, as always, to meet as wikisourcians in
Esino.
I'll be there, so at least there are 3 of us :-)
I will be there too. Thanks to the scholarship grant. Its great opportunity
for me to have a meet-up and learn from all of you again. It would be great
if we have a booth for Wikisource User group in the community village.
what I'll look into is the perennial issue of
lobbying/advocacy within the
WMF. In Wien we said all that was needed to say: unfortunately the recent
turmoil at the WMF made our request very low priority, but the WMConf in
Berlin s a great occasion to restart the conversation (and I'll try to do
that).
Looking forward.
Meanwhile, I encourage all of you to come up with ideas: for example, the
new Google OCR for Indic languages makes a perfect
case of very good
innovation within our Wikisources, and maybe it would be very helpful, for
the community and for the WMF to understand, to gather data and show
numbers of what happened and is happening.
It would be amazing to show that users are increasing or such other
insights.
Thanks to the international Wikisource community for all your support and
inputs in the process of building the OCR4Wikisource tool. It was only
possible because this international community has valued "Language equity"
so passionately. Indic language Wikisourcers shall remain ever grateful to
all of you for your empathy and understanding. We are now trying to gather
data, make help pages in the form of manuals, videos etc., so that other
small Wikisource projects, facing similar problems, can benefit themselves.
For Esino, we are also planning to make a poster about the project to be
displayed in India booth.
Best Regards,
--
Bodhisattwa