Wikisource-l February 2011

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Re: [Wikisource-l] who is dr.nate
by John Vandenberg 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Moka Pantages <mpantages(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks for looping me in, Casey. > > Not sure who Dr. Nate is. We can try to recover. > > Let me know what you want to do. The info@ team at Twitter is pretty responsive. Moka, I have spent a few hours trying to work out who it is, and I am pretty sure they are not a wikisourcerer. If you could recover this name, that would be good. It isn't urgent. -- John Vandenberg

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New ref syntax and transclusion
by Alex Brollo 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

I found the new syntax <ref name="...">...</ref> ...... <ref follow="...">...</ref> .... <references /> A smart solution for a difficult trouble (splitted notes into different pages). But I didn't find the way to use effectively, in nsPage, the syntax <ref name="..." /> .... <references><ref name="...."></references> It would be great to use it in nsPage, to let "in place" references to enhance text readibility when proofreading and validating texts, and to save original text structure for easier script comparison with djvu text layer. Am I missing something? Can I found doc or examples of the latter syntax into a proofread source work? Alex

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who is dr.nate
by John Vandenberg 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Does anyone know who 'dr.nate' is? http://twitter.com/#!/wikisource See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Twitter -- John Vandenberg

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MediaWiki update
by thomasV1＠gmx.de 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Dear Wikisourcers, A couple of issues and regressions appeared after last week's deployment. Most of them are fixed now. The new features are listed here: http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage#MediaWiki_update_16.2F0… Thomas -- Schon gehört? GMX hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/toolbar

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Wikicaptcha
by Andrea Zanni 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Dear wikisourcers, while exploring the djvu text layer, it.source community found interesting features that is good thing to share (SPOILER ALERT: Wikisource reCAPTCHA). (I added the technicalities in the footnotes, please look at them if you're interested.) We discovered that when the text layer is extracted with djvuLibre djvused.exe tool [1] a text file is obtained, containing words and their absolute coordinates into the image of the page. Here a some example rows of such txt file from a running test: (line 402 2686 2424 2757 (word 402 2699 576 2756 "State.") (word 679 2698 892 2757 "Effects") (word 919 2698 991 2756 "of") (word 1007 2697 1467 2755 "Domestication") (word 1493 2698 1607 2755 "and") (word 1637 2697 1910 2757 "Climate.") (word 2000 2698 2132 2756 "The") (word 2155 2686 2424 2754 "Persians^")) As you can see, the last word has a ^ character inside, that indicates a doubtful, unrecognized character by OCR software. What's really interesting is that python script can select these words using the ^ character and produce automatically a file with the image of the word, since all needed parameters for a ddjvu.exe call can be obtained (please consider that this code comes from a rough, but *running* test script [2]). So, in our it.source test script, a tiff image has been automatically produced, exactly contaning the image of "Persians^" doubtful OCR output. Its name is built as name-of-djvu-file+page number+coordinates into the page, that it is all what is needed to link unambiguously the image and the specific word into a specific page of a djvu file. The image has been uploaded into Commons as http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Word_image_from_wikicaptcha_project.… As you can easily imagine, this could be the core of a "wikicaptcha" project (as John Vandenberg called it), enabling us to produce our own Wikisource reCaptcha. A djvu file could be uploaded into a server (into an "incubator"); a database of doubtful word images could be built; images could be presented to wiki users (both as a voluntary task or as a formal reCAPTCHA to confirm edits by unlogged contributors); resulting human interpretation could be validated somehow (i.e. by n repetitions of matching, different interpretations) then used to edit text layer of djvu file. Finally the edited djvu file could be uploaded to Commons for formal source managing. Please contact us if you like to have a copy of running, test scripts. There's too a shared Dropbox folder with the complete environment where we are testing scripts. Opinions, feedbacks or thoughts are more than welcome. Aubrey Admin it.source WMI Board [1] command='djvused name-of.file.djvu -e "select page-number; print-txt" >text-file.txt os.system(command) [2] if "^" in word: coord=key.split() #print coord w=str(eval(coord[3])-eval( coord[1])) h=str(eval(coord[4])-eval(coord[2])) x=coord[1] y=coord[2] filetiff=fileDjvu.replace(".djvu","")+"-"+pag+"-"+"_".join(coord)+".tiff" segment="-segment WxH+X+Y".replace("W",w).replace("H",h).replace("X",x).replace("Y",y) command="ddjvu "+fileDjvu+" -page="+pag+" -format=tiff "+segment+" "+filetiff print command os.system(command)

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[ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens
by Guillaume Paumier 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Greetings, As you may know, the Wikimedia teach team has started to upgrade MediaWiki on some wikis. MediaWiki is the software that runs all Wikimedia wikis. The most visible change for Wikimedia users will be the deployment of ResourceLoader [1]. ResourceLoader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up its delivery by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount of unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first place. The installation of ResourceLoader may cause compatibility issues with existing JavaScript code. Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw, the main developers of ResourceLoader, will be available on IRC [2] on Monday, February 14th, at 18:00 (UTC) [3], to answer questions and help fix issues related to ResourceLoader. *If you maintain JavaScript code on your home wiki, please attend.* Don't wait until your wiki's JavaScript is all broken. Please spread this information as widely as possible; it's critical to reach as many local JavaScript maintainers as possible. Logs of the session will be published publicly. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours [3] All timezones: http://ur1.ca/3819u -- Guillaume Paumier Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation Support free knowledge: http://donate.wikimedia.org

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