Wikisources are going to reach 200 000 articles (now all 52 Wikisources have
190 865 articles) [1]. Are in plans of anyone to write a Press release? The
"war" for the second position between French and Spanish wikis and for the
fourth position between Portuguese and Chinese wikis is promising :)
[1] http://s23.org/wikistats/wikisources_html.php
Hello,
>From the French list, the new Digital European Library web site.
Regards, Yann
Chichi a posé son mulot dessus les wikimediens devraient s'y intéresser
et plus particulièrement les wikisourciens.
http://www.europeana.eu/
Et si vous avez (eu) une discussion à ce sujet ailleurs ce serait sympa
de nous en faire une synthèse ou un lien.
Fred
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http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence
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http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre
http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre
http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres
I'm willing to write a bot that transfers new releases from LibriVox
(public domain spoken audio archive) to Commons automatically, if and
only if I get two committed volunteers who add the relevant files to
Wikisource editions, and build a nice Spoken Wikisource directory like
the one on the German Wikisource.
( http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Gesprochene_Wikisource )
Any takers, please reply offlist.
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"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open,
free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic
Maybe we'll see a good free software OCR solution yet ..
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From: Bill Janssen <bill(a)janssen.org>
Date: Mar 10, 2007 10:51 AM
Subject: [BP] OCRopus OCR shows up on Google Code...
To: Book People Mailing List <bookpeople(a)pobox.upenn.edu>
Those of us interested in OCR will want to keep an eye on
http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/.
>From that Web page: ``We are planning on an alpha-release of the
system in Q1. It's a technology preview that shows the architecture
and is already quite useful...''
This is the follow-on to the Tesseract work that came out last year.
Bill
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From: Juliet Sutherland <vze3rknp(a)verizon.net>
Date: Mar 10, 2007 2:12 AM
Subject: [BP] DP Releases 10,000th Book
To: Book People <bookpeople(a)pobox.upenn.edu>
Today Distributed Proofreaders <http://www.pgdp.net> (DP) posted a
package of texts that takes us over 10,000 completed titles. I'm very
proud of our community of volunteers who have accomplished this
beautiful number. The 10K package (listed below) showcases the wide
range of our volunteers' interests and talents.
There are examples of a number of our on-going large projects including
the Slave Narratives (now over half done), the Bureau of American
Ethnography reports, periodicals (this issue of Punch is the 280th that
we've done), and the beginning of a new project, Linnaeus' Species
Plantarum. Children's literature and Science Fiction are two popular
areas and both are represented on this list. Shakespeare in French and
John Evelyn's classic work on the trees of England represent the
classics. The Shanty Book has music to listen to, and the Encyclopedia
of Needlework deserves its name, being so large and full of illustrations.
It's hard to argue which of these titles is the most significant, but I
lean towards The annals of the Cakchiquels. Here is what one of the
people involved with its production told me about it, "The Annals of the
Cakchiquels contains the text and translation of a document written in
the 17th century in Cakchiquel Maya, a Mayan language of highland
Guatemala. The document begins with a history of the Cakchiquel people
and continues with the history of the writer's family through the
arrival of the Spanish in the area and to the date of the writing. It is
one of the few documents written in Mesoamerican indigenous languages
that contain the history of the people before the Spanish Conquest. The
author, Daniel G. Brinton, was an early archaeologist, ethnologist, and
linguist."
There are thousands of DP volunteers who have made this milestone
possible. They all deserve thanks for their contributions!
JulietS
The DP 10,000 Collection
20771 Species Plantarum: Monandria, Diandria and Triandria by Carolus
Linnaeus (Carl von Linni) 1753 Latin
20772 Agriculture for beginners, Rev. ed. by Charles William Burkett,
Frank Lincoln Stevens, and Daniel Harvey Hill. 1914
20773 Marchand de Venise by Shakespeare, trans. by M. Guizot. original
1821, ed. transcribed.1862 French
20774 The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties by Richard Runciman Terry
(1864-1938) 1921
20775 The annals of the Cakchiquels: The original text, with a
translation, notes, and introduction by Francisco Ernantez Arana (fl.
1582), trans. by and edit. by Daniel G. Brinton (1837-1899) 1885
English/Cakchiquel Mayan
20776 Encyclopedia of Needlework, by Therese de Dillmont originally
from 1884
20777 R. Caldecott's First Collection of Pictures and Songs by Randolph
Caldecott. [1900-1909?]
20778 Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees by John Evelyn
(1620-1706) 1664
20779 Heimatlos by Johanna Spyri, 1890 German
20780 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920
20781 Heidi by Johanna Spyri, trans. Elisabeth P. Stork, with an intro
by Charles Wharton Stork, A.M. PhD, Illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Gift
edition. 1919
20782 Triplanetary, by E.E. Smith 1934
20783 Como atravessei @frica (v. II), by Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de
Serpa Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto) 1881 Portuguese
20784 Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, ed. John Wesley Powell
20785 Slave Narratives, Oklahoma (A Folk History of Slavery in the
United States From Interviews with Former Slaves) Works Project
Administration Federal Writer's Project 1936-1938
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We have just launched http://planet.wikimedia.org/ , which is an
aggregator for all on-topic wiki-related weblog (blog) posts by
participants in Wikimedia projects. The planet can be found at:
http://planet.wikimedia.org/
To get added, please follow the instructions at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia
This is a kind of beta test, and right now, the planet is in the
English language; however, I have prepared a process for requesting
new languages to be set up here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia/New_language
So please add your support if you wish to aggregate blog posts in
another language.
Again, this is for on-topic posts, not for diary entries. All feeds
must either point to a blog which is almost exclusively about wikis,
or filtered (WordPress, Blogger and other common blog engines all
support filtered feeds by categorizing your posts, e.g., adding the
"wiki" category to all posts which you want to be included in the
planet). If this makes you feel uncomfortable, you can (in addition or
in substitution) add your blog to http://wikiblogplanet.com/ , which
does not filter posts for on-topicness. WikiBlogPlanet is run
independently by Nick Jenkins.
I hope that this new tool will allow us to share useful and
interesting information, as well as opinions, more effectively across
project boundaries.
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[Crossposted on many lists]
Hello,
The press team of the Foundation is currently building a press list file and
gathering contact information of journalists and editors of all the major
media (newspapers, magazines, radio, tv) around the world. The aim is to
improve our communication and be able to reach people from all over the
world (not only people from the US and not only people from English-speaking
countries).
We are requesting help from the whole community to gather this information.
We have the chance to have a global community of users and volunteers and we
need to take advantage of this chance. Please help us by sending contact
information of journalists and editors you know or from your country.
The basic information are :
Name of the journalist:
First name:
Email:
Name and type of the media: (for instance "CNN, worldwide news TV channel")
Any other information about each contact is welcome (area of concentration,
coverage, schedule...).
Please send the information you have got to: press at wikimedia dot org and
*do not answer this email*, I will probably not get the emails since I am
not subscribed to all lists I have posted to.
Thanks for your help!
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Guillaume Paumier
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Wikimania, Wikimedia's annual global conference for the community, has
today released its call for participation.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Particpation
We will shortly be accepting submissions for presentations, panels,
discussions, posters, and more. I would like to encourage all
community members to make a submission. Wikimania is the wiki
conference aimed at the Wikimedia community, so it's essential that
you are represented here. If there is something interesting about your
wiki that you want to share with 400 Wikimedians in Taipei this
summer, please respond to this call for participation.
We are also looking for volunteers to review the submissions made and
help us to choose what will be presented at Wikimania. Depending on
what you would like to review, please contact one of the following
people to let them know you would like to help.
Wikimedia Communities presentations: Angela Beesley:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Angela
Free Content presentations: Phoebe Ayers:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brassratgirl
Technical infrastructure presentations: James Forrester:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester
Posters and Panels (all themes): Jakob Voss:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JakobVoss
Artistic artifacts, Workshops, and Birds-of-a-Feather (all themes):
TzuChiang Liou:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TzuChiang_Liou
Angela Beesley