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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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>
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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?
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
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