Hi Satdeep and Langcom,
I'm actually a bit reluctant at this point, but this can be fixed quite
easily. Let me explain.
As a lot of people probably know, I have a lot of respect remarkably active
Punjabi Wikipedia community. I do, however, see two problems with the
activity of the test Wikisource, as analyzed at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=1&title=ਪੰਜਾਬੀ…
.
One is that it's a bit low in general. October 2016 is the first month with
four active users, and earlier there were even less.
The other is that the user who made the most edits appears to have only
used OCR without actually correcting the OCRed text. Look at these pages:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Julius_Ceasuer_Punjabi_Translation_by_HS_G…
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Julius_Ceasuer_Punjabi_Translation_by_HS_G…
The original scanned page looks like a typical theater play with character
names before a colon ("ਮੈਸਾਲਾ-:", "ਮੈਸਾਲਾ-:") and the main text in
another
column after the colon. OCR appears to have put all the names in the
beginning of the page and all of the main text after them. Clicking the OCR
button is too easy—I'd expect the editor to move the parts of the page
around and format them correctly.
Community activity and sustainability is the biggest issue in new and small
Wikimedia projects, and I'd love to see more meaningful contributions and
understanding of the Wikisource editing model before fully approving.
As I noted above, both problems are easily fixable. I'm sure that the
Punjabi community can address them in just a couple of months. I'll be
happy to look at the activity again then.
Thanks for understanding! :)
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2016-10-31 4:56 GMT+02:00 Satdeep Gill <satdeepgill(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hi,
I would like you guys to have a look at this meta request:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_
languages/Wikisource_Eastern_Punjabi
All the messages have been translated and we have been actively working in
the past few months.
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