Hello Indic Wikisource proofreaders,
We are happy to announce that the Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon
November 2022 [1] will start tomorrow 14 November 2022 and will continue up
to 30th November 2022.
We are also expecting higher participation than in the previous contest. We
welcome new Wikimedians from various parts of the country to work on
restoring our literary heritage to the digital era. Just like the last
contest held in March 2022, we again promise to wrap up everything within
the expected timeline after the competition ends. We are going to keep our
promise again. :-)
Welcome you all to the contest.
1)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_proofread-a-thon_November_…
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Wikisource Officer
Centre for Internet and Society
Greetings Wikimedia family,
I am delighted to share *Wiki Rescues Manuscripts
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts>*, a
call-to-action and project to support the digitization of manuscripts on
Wikimedia platforms (Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource). The project
consists of two complementary pilots. The first pilot digitizes manuscripts
in Indonesia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts#Wiki_Rescues_Manus…>
through a collaboration with PPIM <https://ppim.uinjkt.ac.id/>, Wikimedia
Indonesia, and other partners. The second pilot tests the viability of
Transkribus
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts#Transkribus_pilot>
(an AI-powered text and handwriting recognition tool) for languages that
are not yet supported by OCR (optical character recognition). We are
starting with the Balinese language because the community has already
produced the number of transcriptions that we need to create a model in
Transkribus.
I invite you to *sign-up as a Learning Partner* in the final section of the
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts#Learning_partners_…>Meta-Wiki
page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts#Learning_partners_…>
if
your community, affiliate, or organization is interested in digitizing
manuscripts. We would love to not only support you but also learn from you.I
am happy to share that *two Wikisource Technical Fellows (Kolawole Lawal &
Parthiv Menon)* will be contributing to the Wiki Rescues Manuscripts
project until June 2023. They will focus on meeting the technical needs of
Indonesian Wikisource communities and potentially integrating Transrkibus
into Wikimedia OCR. Here is a brief introduction from each of them:*Hi
everyone, I am Kolawole. I’m from Nigeria. I am glad to be a part of the
Wikimedia movement. I love solving software-related problems and listening
to good music. I look forward to collaborating and contributing to
Wikisource as a Technical Fellow.**Hello! I am Parthiv, a final year
undergraduate student from India. I love to read and draw, enjoy meeting
new people, exploring new places, playing sports, and (unpopular opinion)
generally not a big fan of cities. I am fluent with English, Hindi,
Gujarati and Malayalam, and can understand a couple of other South Indian
languages as well. More importantly, I am looking forward to my time here
for it surely does seem like it's going to be fun :)*Finally, I would like
to invite you all to join us for the next Wikisource Triage meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings#October_2022_mee…>
on *26th October 2022 at 2 PM UTC (7:30 PM IST)* where we will be
discussing the pilots and introducing Kolawale and Parthiv. Feel free to
edit the agenda directly to add further topics for the meeting. Kindly drop
me an email on sgill(a)wikimedia.org if you would like to be added to the
calendar invitation for the meeting.
Looking forward to meeting some of you next week. Have a great weekend!
Regards
Satdeep
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts#Wiki_Rescues_Manus…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts#Transkribus_pilot
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Rescues_Manuscripts#Learning_partners_…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings#October_2022_mee…
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Senior Program Officer
Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
I shall be organizing the 2nd Indic Wikiource Proofread-a-thon 2022 in the
coming week of November/December and I need your help to decide on a time
and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your
opinion at the wudele link below:
https://wudele.toolforge.org/wsp2022
<https://wudele.toolforge.org/wstriage4>
Regards
Jayanta
Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
We are the hosting the fifth Wikisource Triage meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings> on *18th
August 2022 at 4 PM UTC / 9:30 PM IST* (check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1660838411>) according to the wudele poll
<https://wudele.toolforge.org/wIztQjaxX1l5qy3A> and also based on the
previous feedback to have a Europe-Americas friendly meeting.
As always, you don't have to be a developer to participate in these
meetings but the focus of these meetings is to improve the Wikisource
infrastructure.
If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message
on *sgill(a)wikimedia.org
<sgill(a)wikimedia.org>* and we will add you to the calendar invite.
Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings> and suggest
any other topics for the agenda.
Regards
Sam & Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
I am excited to announce that *The Culture and Heritage team* (formerly
known as the GLAM team) at the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a *Wikisource
Technical Fellow*.
If you are a PHP & Javascript developer and would like to support the
digitization of handwritten manuscripts on Wikisource, definitely consider
applying. More details on the link below:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/4469331
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/4469331>
Kindly share further with any relevant individuals. Feel free to ask me any
questions!
Regards
Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
Fourth Wikisource Triage meeting (29 June 2022) is happening today in
exactly 3 hours from now at *10:00 AM UTC / 3:30 PM IST*.
We will be sharing some updates from Wikimedia Italy and the WMF GLAM team.
Additionally, we will be joined by OVasileva (WMF) & SGrabarczuk (WMF) who
will be sharing about the* Desktop Refresh (Vector 2022)* and how it has
been adapted for Wikisource.
Video call link: *https://meet.google.com/dwr-ifrx-grb
<https://meet.google.com/dwr-ifrx-grb>*
Check out the page on Meta-Wiki for more information:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings
Regards
Sam & Satdeep
Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
We are hosting the Wikisource Triage meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings> on *29th June
2022 at 10 AM UTC / 3:30 PM IST* (Check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1656496824>) according to the wudele poll
<https://wudele.toolforge.org/wstriage4>.
There is some exciting news about a few technical projects related to
Wikisource that are getting started right now and we will be sharing more
information during the meeting.
As always, you don't have to be a developer to participate in these
meetings while the focus of these meetings is to improve the Wikisource
infrastructure.
If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on
sgill(a)wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.
Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings> and suggest
any other topics for the agenda.
Regards
Sam and Satdeep
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>