On 09/11/2013, fabian@unpopular.org.uk fabian@unpopular.org.uk wrote:

Yes I tried this . . . once. I create the DjVU file and got it onto commons but then when I tried to get it on Wikisource, I discovered there were forbidden characters in the file name which I had not been warned about before. After a bit more mucking about I gave up. All a bit frustrating really.

This is one of the areas that having a chapter employee/named wikisource expert help could sort out, doing this in parallel to the competition might be a smart approach. Any volunteer that finds this confusing and has a key document that would be of high value to the projects, could just email a link or a photocopied document (via freepost) to a chapter contact. Only good for a limited number of documents and not whole books, but a good area to offer help, or indeed a training event for those that need a push to learn how to DIY and have some projects in mind (nods to cy.ws).

Creating a good djvu file (or even a pdf) is a bit of an art as with standard free tools it can be hard or impossible to set embedded image resolution etc.

I am surprised at the example of bad characters, I have stumbled several times with these file name problems, but they should normally be solvable using unicode in the right way or re-mapping the obvious problem characters (like slashes to dashes). Right now I'm maintaining a multi-language backlog table, knowing how to do this sort of thing took me a long time to learn.[1] Not sure I would want to debug everyone else's problems though. :-)

1. Example table https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading/Airliners/Priorit...

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