Scripto is an alternative to the ProofreadPage extension used
by Wikisource. It is based on Mediawiki but also on OpenLayers,
the software used to zoom and pan in OpenStreetMap.
The only website I have seen that uses Scripto is the U.K.
War Department papers, and in many ways it is more clumsy
than ProofreadPage. But there might be a few ideas that could
be worth picking up. Take a look.
The software is described at http://scripto.org/
As for reference installations, they mention
http://wardepartmentpapers.org/transcribe.php
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
ATTN: Australians, mostly ;-)
During the week of ALIA at which Sue Gardner keynoted, the Wikimedia
Australia committee consulted with Australian GLAM partners and
formulated a concept to support a significant number of Wikimedians in
Residence across Australia. After a bit of refinement, and having
received a few in-principle agreements from GLAMs, the committee
approved the following proposal on Sunday.
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:WWI_WiR
If you will reside in Australia in the 2013-14 financial year, and can
work as a WiR one day a week for six months, please apply here (and/or
tell your friends):
http://tinyurl.com/WWIWiRAu
If you think cultural institutions in your region will be interested
and have relevant material in their collection, please ask them to
email committee(a)wikimedia.org.au .
--
John Vandenberg
Congrats Charles for seeing this project through to completion, and the
many others involved in.
John Vandenberg.
sent from Galaxy Note
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Stevie Benton" <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
Date: Feb 12, 2013 2:40 AM
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography
digitised on Wikisource
To: "UK Wikimedia mailing list" <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hello everyone,
I write to let you know about a really interesting project on Wikisource. A
group of volunteers, including Charles Matthews, has just finished
digitising the Victorian-era Dictionary of National
Biography<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900>.
The project is the result of the efforts of over 30 volunteers since 2008
and has led to over 30,000 articles being added to Wikisource.
Charles has put together a blog post about the project which can be seen
here<http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/victorian-era-dictionary-of-national-b…>
.
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton
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