I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text...
transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones or signposts.
Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially outside the existing Wikimedia community
Good to know that Commons is developing its own "mini-Wikisource" :)
Cheers, Micru
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote:
I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text...
transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones or signposts.
Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially outside the existing Wikimedia community
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Great idea! Will share this.
Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Treasurer. On Dec 3, 2013 9:25 PM, "David Cuenca" dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
Good to know that Commons is developing its own "mini-Wikisource" :)
Cheers, Micru
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk
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I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text...
transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones or signposts.
Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially outside the existing Wikimedia community
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Great idea!! Will circulate it :)
In India we have recently attempted translating the Malayalam Wikimedia 11th Anniversary banner into various Indian languages using FB. Here is the work-in-progress
https://www.facebook.com/sajsugeesh/media_set?set=a.692345024117024.10737418...
For me this was a useful experiment in trying to harness social media time for Wikimedia purposes. Not sure if it is (technically) possible to explore this linkage for something like the commons transcribe or translatewiki.net.
Cheers, Vishnu
On Tuesday 03 December 2013 08:50 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text/transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones or signposts.
Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially outside the existing Wikimedia community
Hi Andy. I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss this, as this involves also the Commons community (and, maybe the Wikisource and Wikidata one).
Wikimedia Italia is in partnerships with several European universities for a project called EAGLE. The projects wants to gather all the epigraphies (and related metadata) from different database, and create a unique metadata schema and database for them. Wikimedia Italia is working on the integration of these data and content in Wikimedia projects, eg, pictures in Commons, etc.
Furthermore, we told them that we could use Wikibase as a central software for doing the job. And they did: now at http://www.eagle-network.eu/ we are mapping and uploading all the metadata related to single epigraphies. It's a long work, as we are talking of hundred thousands epigraphies here.
Now, I think we should find a proper, modular way to include transcriptions in Commons metadata, remembering that these piece of data could one day go on Wikidata. if we do it write (with a proper template, for example, which one day could be "converted" in a Wikidata property), probably all projects could benefit from it (think about embedding transcription directly in Wikipedia articles, transcluding them directly from Wikidata...)
Here you can see a brief example of an Item (in EAGLE wiki) with a property like that: http://www.eagle-network.eu/wiki/index.php/Item:Q382 (The epigraphy actually doesn't have a transcription, but a "translation" of the trascription. Those will hopefully arrive later in the prohect).
I'm writing this as I remember there other users putting transciptions inside "annotations", on Commons, and as EAGLE will probably bring a *lot* of images on Commons, we better decide it right :-)
Aubrey
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote:
I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text...
transcribing small pieces of text in images such as foundation stones or signposts.
Please feel free to circulate that through your networks, especially outside the existing Wikimedia community
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