Dear Wikimedians,
This mail is more relevant to wikimedians working in Wiksiource.
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension). http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisourc...
Post is also placed in metawiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of...
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this method extensively to digitize the books. But some other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension.
This post is for sharing the best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities. Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar for Indic wiki communities.
Shiju Alex
Thanks to Shiju for this email. Using Wikisource for digitizing books is a very fun experience. I do it quite a lot. It is fun even without OCR, although OCR makes things easier, of course.
It is useful to a lot of people, too. It's a shame that Wikisource is so frequently overlooked :)
A technical comment: As far as i know, the technical differences between PDF and DjVu are not very impotant. If you already have a PDF of a book that you want to digitize on Wikisource, you don't have to convert it to DjVu, because Wikisource works with both.
2012/3/24 Shiju Alex shiju@wikimedia.org:
Dear Wikimedians,
This mail is more relevant to wikimedians working in Wiksiource.
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension). http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisourc...
Post is also placed in metawiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of...
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this method extensively to digitize the books. But some other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension.
This post is for sharing the best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities. Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar for Indic wiki communities.
Shiju Alex
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Thanks Shiju,
As discussed, Marathi Wikisource has started using this from last month and have created more than 5 books.
Still we would like to have more knowledge sharing from other languages on the same....
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Shiju Alex shiju@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
This mail is more relevant to wikimedians working in Wiksiource.
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension). http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisourc...
Post is also placed in metawiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of...
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this method extensively to digitize the books. But some other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension.
This post is for sharing the best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities. Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar for Indic wiki communities.
Shiju Alex
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