Dear Wikimedians, Bangla Wikisource[0], we called it Wikisangkalan is the 2nd largest Wikimedia projects in Bangla. Now there are 5800+ Bangla texts available in Wikisangkalan.

You know there are lots of Bangla literatures are available in public domain license and many of them available at web in unicode, pdf, djvu, jpg etc. Wikisource have a nice way to host the digital files like pdf and djvu and digitize them to unicode. But unfortunate, Bangla does not have any good OCR to digitize the texts from pdf or djvu file. Till Bangla got any free/opensource OCR with satisfactory quality, the only way to do the digitization is by human typing. And we need large collaborations at these works. More people we involve in typing more digitize Bangla texts will be available in free at the web for Reader.

I am planning a day long offline event at the eatherpad[1] to do the collaborative typing for Wikisangkalan. Where people can learn how to type Bangla and edit Wikisangkalan. And They will type texts from the file for Wikisangkalan. That event helps to improve Wikisource, recruit new Wikisourcers and builds relations in the community.

I need your inputs, opinions and feedbacks in planning and execution. If you want to host that event, please let me know. I am happy to help you.

Also please spread the words and discuss about it with others. The event may get helps from others.

[0]https://bn.wikisource.org [1]https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/type-a-thon

Regards, Belayet