Hi Wikimedians,

I would love to share with you an idea, that I've planned to improve Bangla Wikisource (http://bn.wikisouce.org) contents by typing digitized (PDF, DjVu) books now available at Public domain license. Target people for this plan is students of school, college and universities.

The basic idea is Bangla does not have any good OCR to work. But there are lots of digitized public domain books are available at internet as well printed public domain books in reality. So we have to type the books to make it in Unicode. So run series of type-a-thon event in educational institutions where student can learn how to type Bangla using Bangla Wikisource integrated typing tools. They can practice Bangla typing with the Bangla Wikisource ProofReading extention page by typing the PDF or DjVu pages uploaded at Bangla Wikisource or Commons. They will also lean about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Bangla. That's a way we can improve and increase Bangla Wikisource contents and also enable students to contribute in Bangla Wikimedia projects.

I made a draft the idea at the meta page[1] with some more explanations and more details. I would like to invite you to join the plan, improve it and make it success by discuss it, with your comments, suggestions and your active participations.

[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Capacitate_student_in_Bangla_typing_through_Bangla_%28bn%29_Wikisource_and_improve_Wikisource

[2]Click here to see an example of pdf book at bn Wikisource.

Regards,

Belayet

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