Wikisource-l May 2011

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A Notable book in CC-BY-SA license and Malayalam wikisource
by Shiju Alex 30 May '11

30 May '11

Dear all, I am Shiju Alex and I am a Malayalam Wikisource volunteer - http://ml.wikisource.org For those who do not know, Malayalam<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam>is spoken in the state of Kerala in South India. We have a special case regarding a *notable Malayalam book* in Malayalam Wikisource <http://ml.wikisource.org>. A notable writer of Malayalam ( http://issuu.com/jdevika) is ready to release some of her notable works under free license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>(Both text and images) Few Malayalam wikians *want to add this book to Malayalam wikisource*. But few others argue that even though book is notable since it is a recent book it can not be in Wikisource. They argue that only source texts which are in public domain need to in wikisource. I am unable to find any similar case in *English wikisource*. Could some one please guide us regarding this? My primary question is, If a *notable* book of a language is available in a wikisource compatibility license can that be added to Wikisource? If this is done is any other language, can some one please share the links. Shiju Alex

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Output as ePub or Mobi?
by Billinghurst 19 May '11

19 May '11

After a question at English Wikisource Scriptorium about output of works as ePub, I sent the below email to Wikitech-L to which there were two responses. (After the first I had an IRC conversation accordingly) I logged this as a Bugzilla request. I suppose the two aspects I see are 1) there is some scope for the output as ePub, though exactly how and what we will not know until we can get it aboard and play 2) that there seems to be scope for actual real work on Extension:Collection. Where and when is unknown. I have also added it onto https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sources/wiki/WS:BUGS So such is promising. Two emails contained below. Regards Andrew ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Billinghurst" <billinghurst(a)gmail.com> To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date sent: Mon, 16 May 2011 21:05:28 +1000 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Output as ePub or Mobi? Is there anyone working on the output of work as EPUB or MOBI for the Mediawiki product? It is something that would sit well for the output of works from Wikisource. That technical side is well beyond me, so I thought it would be good to know if anyone is working on that avenue for output. Thanks. Regards Andrew ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> Date sent: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:18:36 +0200 On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > I'm having some discussions about adding it to the Books collection > extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection). > > Will update as I have more info. > OP has filed a request for review of an EPub exporter extension found via mediawiki.org: BZ entry - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29023 I've taken a quick initial look and I think it should be feasible with fixes for smaller third-party sites -- so could probably be copied into our SVN for maintenance & distribution if there's no license or other major issues. For production Wikimedia use though I think we'd be happiest with integrating with the Collection / mwlib stuff, so it fits with our other export options and (most importantly) that method of building export sets. -- brion ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Dynamic PageList installed for each Wikisource
by Andrea Zanni 16 May '11

16 May '11

Being at Berlin Hackathon, I asked Ashar Voltuiz if they could install the Dynamic PageList extension<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_%28Wikimedia%29>in the Italian Wikisource. I knew a lot of Wikisource asked for that, so they eventually installed for everyone. Hope this is good news also for you! Aubrey

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"MediaWiki and Wikimedia Foundation development to non-Wikipedia projects"
by Luiz Augusto 15 May '11

15 May '11

I've just made a question to the Board candidates at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Candidates/Questions/2#… IMO interesting to be tracked by all of us that spent some of their free time at non-Wikipedia projects.

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(no subject)
by daniwo59＠aol.com 13 May '11

13 May '11

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Timelines
by Dovi Jacobs 09 May '11

09 May '11

Hi, at he.wikisource we created a namespace for any and all material *about* texts that are not actual texts themselves. Besides illustrations, annotations and the like, this certainly includes things like timelines, illustrative mappings of connected works, etc. Obviously categories should be well-used as the first step. Dovi ----------- Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 10:32:46 +0200 From: Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> Subject: [Wikisource-l] Timelines To: Wikisource <wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID: <4DC7A6AE.40004(a)aronsson.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Has any language of Wikisource tried new methods to connect works or mentions regarding the same time? The Swedish Wikisource has categories for works by decade (e.g. 1830s works), but that's all. And I think we could do more. For a specific date or event, we may have mentions in history books as well as newspapers from that day. But how should these points best be linked together? Are categories really our best tool?

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Timelines
by Lars Aronsson 09 May '11

09 May '11

Has any language of Wikisource tried new methods to connect works or mentions regarding the same time? The Swedish Wikisource has categories for works by decade (e.g. 1830s works), but that's all. And I think we could do more. For a specific date or event, we may have mentions in history books as well as newspapers from that day. But how should these points best be linked together? Are categories really our best tool? -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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Proofread 1000px page thumb bug
by Alex Brollo 09 May '11

09 May '11

I reloaded a new version of [[File:Progetto di una strada a guide di ferro da Venezia a Milano.djvu]], since previous souce was wrong (some pages lack the image of tables). Now, when proofreading, after many days from upload, when reading page :it:s:pagina:Progetto di una strada a guide di ferro da Venezia a Milano.djvu/94 the right, updated thombnail is shown, while the old, blank one is shown when editing the page. You can see the difference comparing the result of the code [[File:Progetto di una strada a guide di ferro da Venezia a Milano.djvu|page=94|1000px]] and [[File:Progetto di una strada a guide di ferro da Venezia a Milano.djvu|page=94|900px]]. The first one is wrong, the second one is right. What's happening? Is it a matter of patience only? Is there some trick to force a remote, exotic cache purging? Alex brollo

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