I'm currently in Bloomington for a database workshop. There I met
Stacy Kowalczyk, who is working on Indiana University's Digital
Library program:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/
I've already given Stacy a brief summary of Wikisource and where I see
potential for collaboration (metadata, translation, proofreading..). I
will still be here until Friday, so if you guys can come up with
useful questions to ask or suggestions to relay, I can do so.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
I've seen this mentioned on IRC yesterday and thought some of you
might not be aware of it. fr.wikisource uses an interesting hack to
show the source image that is being transcribed on a page, like here:
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Fermat_-_Livre_1-000067.jpg
Now the really cool thing is that this even works on the edit page:
http://fr.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Fermat_-_Livre_1-000067.jpg…
It's a hack based on Monobook.js; the function is called nsPage:
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.js
Essentially, it checks whether the page title begins with "Page:", and
if so, tries to load the image of the name that follows on both the
view and the edit screen. This may not work in all browsers and
certainly required JavaScript; I've only tried it in Firefox. But I
think it's very cool in any case, as it gives you similar
functionality to what Distributed Proofreaders is using, but with a
wiki.
It may be worth for Wikisources to request a proper Page: namespace if
this method proves to be viable.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
