Dear All,
I had represented the Kannada Wikisource community in the Indic Wikisource
community consultation which was held in Kolkata on November 24th and
25th. The small and brief introduction was given by Jayantanth after this
the following things were discussed:
- Stats tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/shrinitools/indic_ws_stats/>:
Which gives the number of validated, proofread, w/o text etc.
- Wsexport <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wsexport/tool/book.php>: Which
allow you to download the books in different formats.
- Indic OCR tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-ocr>: This tool will
allow us to run OCR in page namespace for individual pages.
- IA upload tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/>: This tool will
help us to upload the books from Internet archive to commons.
- URL2commons <https://tools.wmflabs.org/url2commons/index.html>: This
tool will help us to upload books from any website.
- Vicuna Uploader <http://yarl.github.io/vicuna/>: This tool will help
us to upload books/images/videos in bulk to commons.
- Fill Index Gadget
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Fill_Index.js>: This
Gadget will fill the index page on Wikisource.
- Hathi downloader <https://www.hathitrust.org/>: This tool will help to
download the books in bulk.
- Fatkun Batch Download Image
<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fatkun-batch-download-ima/nnjjahl…>:
A chrome addon which will help you to download images in bulk.
- ABBYY fine reader <https://finereaderonline.com/en-us>: This tool will
help you to run the OCR locally.
- Other tools like Briss, pdfshuffle Gscan2pdf, and Scantailor where
discussed which help to process the books after scanning.
- The workflow of the Wikisource was discussed.
- Cleanup js <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Bodhisattwa/cleanup.js>:
Help to clean up the text in a bulk after OCR.
- OTRS process <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS> was
discussed.
- Hands-on session on OCR.
- Discussion on the tools that the Indic community needed to do work
efficiently on Wikisource.
- A small presentation on Transclusion of the book.
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
Programme Associate
Access to Knowledge program
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664