Community Tech Launches Wikisource Improvement Initiative - Wikisource-l

27 May 2020

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Hello everyone,

We hope you are all healthy and safe in these difficult times.

The Community Tech team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech>
has just launched a new initiative to improve Wikisource. We will be
addressing five separate wishes, which came out of the 2020 Community
Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Results>,
and we want you to be a part of the process! The projects include the
following:

   -

   Improve ebook export

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/Improve_export_of_electronic_books>
   -

   Improve OCR tools

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/New_OCR_tool>
   -

   Migrate Wikisource specific edit tools from gadgets to Wikisource
   extension

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/Migrate_Wikisource_specific_edit_tools_from_gadgets_to_Wikisource_extension>
   -

   Inter-language link support via Wikidata

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/Inter-language_link_support_via_Wikidata>
   -

   Insert attestation on Wiktionary using Wikisource as a corpus

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wiktionary/Insert_attestation_using_Wikisource_as_a_corpus>

For the first project, the team will focus on the #1 wish: improve ebook
exports. We have created a project page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Ebook_Export_Improvement>,
which includes an analysis of the ebook export process. We now invite
everyone to visit the page and share their feedback on the talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Ebook_Export_Improvement#Project_Overview:_Request_for_Feedback_(May_2020)>
. Please let us know what you think of our analysis; we want to hear from
all of you! Furthermore, we hope that you will participate in the other
Wikisource improvement projects, which we’ll address in the future. Thank
you in advance and we look forward to reading your feedback on the ebook
export improvement talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Ebook_Export_Improvement#Project_Overview:_Request_for_Feedback_(May_2020)>
!

Ilana Fried

Product Manager, Community Tech