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Project leaflet
by Andrea Zanni 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

This seems very interesting... https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Leaflets Aubrey

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OCR for Persian
by Amir Ladsgroup 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Hello, I have access to huge resources of old books in Persian (some of them are even typed) and almost all of them can be imported to Wikisource but the problem is I don't have (or know) any OCR for Persian, Do you know which OCR software supports Persian (supporting Arabic is not enough; I checked several programs) texts? Best -- Amir

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Interwiki link to other language wikisource
by Jane Darnell 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Quick question for all of you sorcerers: How do I link to a book in a non-English wikisource from an English Wikipedia article? I can't remember how to do this and don't know where else to look Thanks, Jane

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Integrating academic works into Wikisource
by Daniel Mietchen 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Dear all, today, we posted a proposal to the English Wikisource about automated import of Open-Access articles: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Automated_import_of_o… In parallel, I uploaded an important zoological work (the first monograph to use Linnean taxonomy for animals; written in Swedish and accompanied by a Latin translation) to Wikimedia Commons and posted about this at the Swedish and Latin Wikisources: https://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:M%C3%B6tesplatsen#Svenska_spindlar https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Vicifons:Scriptorium#Aranei_Svecici . In both cases, the aim is to bring more scholarly content onto Wikisource, and the idea is to scale things up if that works well. Feedback of any kind is most welcome. Thanks and cheers, Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-d… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org

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At Wikimania, having a WS chat about Cirrus Search might be useful
by billinghurst 21 Jun '14

21 Jun '14

Not sure what others think, or how many will be at Wikimania. I know that I haven't done enough playing with Cirrus Search functionality, and I am not sure what those WSes (other than enWS) have done to have a more sophisticated offering to users. Might be useful if we could find half an hour during WM2014 to throw some ideas around, and maybe whiteboard what we would like CirrusSearch to do for us (if anything). After reading some of the wikitech-ambassador email today, I know that I stumbled over some documentation/thought boxes at http://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCirrusSearch.git/mas… which while providing detail, doesn't gel for how we might implement things in a better way. Regards, Billinghurst

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available
by Luiz Augusto 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

May will be useful also to found some PD-old scans to proofread? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available To: Wikimedia & Libraries <Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American Cultural Partnerships <glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org The Wikipedia Library has new, free research account signups available: New * British Newspaper Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:BNA> (50 accounts) * Keesing's World News Archive <http://enwp.org/WP:Keesings> (25 accounts) Expanded * Credo Reference <http://enwp.org/WP:CREDO> (200 new accounts) * JSTOR!! <http://enwp.org/WP:JSTOR> (400 new accounts). Medical * BMJ <http://enwp.org/WP:BMJ> (25 accounts) * Cochrane Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Cochrane> (100 accounts) Other *Questia Online Library <http://enwp.org/WP:Questia (500 accounts) *HighBeam Research <http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (500 accounts) Sign up! Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. You can signup today on English Wikipedia. But! If you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch you can host signups on your local Wiki (Arabic, Chinese...). To set up a Wikipedia Library branch email Ocaasi at jorlowitz(a)gmail.com. Thanks! Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) The Wikipedia Library <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Fwd: [Chapters] Fwd: Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1
by Andrea Zanni 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hello everyone. I would like to remind all that the toolserver will stop working in July (see forwarded mail). Does anybody know about the status of migration of Phe's statistical tools? http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php?diff=1 They are really important and I would love to have them on Labs :-D Aubrey ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:42 AM Subject: [Chapters] Fwd: Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1 To: Wikimedia Chapters general discussions <chapters(a)wikimedia.ch> Dear Wikimedia friends, My colleague Birgit Müller, our new Community Liaison, asked me to forward this email to the international Chapter sphere. It would be lovely if you help us to spread the word about the upcoming deadline for the migration from Toolserver to Tool Labs among your local communities. Toolserver will stop operating on June 30, all tools that have not been migrated by that date will stop working. We need tool developers and users to support the transition and make it as smooth as possible. More information in the following mail. Please don't hesitate to contact Birgit (birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de) in case of any questions or feedback. Thanks a lot for you support and best regards from Berlin, Nicole ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Birgit Müller <birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de> Date: 4 June 2014 10:13 Subject: Reminder: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1 To: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> Cc: Silke Meyer <silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de> Please spread the word: Tools only on Tool Labs from July 1 About one year ago, we, Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., announced June 30th as the deadline of the Toolserver migration (Roadmap at [1]). This deadline is approaching. The Toolserver will stop working on June 30th. What will happen afterwards? Background information The Toolserver is a community based infrastructure that hosts software supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects. Over the years many active volunteers have developed helpful and great software tools that are running on several Wikimedia projects. The Toolserver is operated by Wikimedia Deutschland with assistance from the Wikimedia Foundation and several chapters. For many reasons, the Toolserver will be discontinued and replaced by Tool Labs [2], a platform operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Please see the reasons at [3]. For more than one year Wikimedia Deutschland has been coordinating the migration of software tools from Toolserver to Tool Labs. What editors should know The toolserver is a community-driven project. The tools shall be migrated by the developers resp. maintainers themselves. Many of them have already migrated their tools or have indicated that they will do so before the end of this month. We have a special agreement with the OpenStreetMap projects and with the developer of Merlbot [4] to ensure these tools don’t stop working. All other tools will stop working by July 1st. What editors can do On Tool Labs [2], you can look up if the tools that you use and need have already moved there. Talk to the developers of your favourite tools: It is important to let them know how much you appreciate their tools and that you need them to do your work. Contact us if you don’t know who these developers are or if you have any questions or if you want us to forward wishes or requests to tool developers. Contact information is given at the end of this text. Information for tool developers If you are still facing the migration of your tools, please keep in mind that lots of people use your tools. They are a great support for their daily work and will be missed when they fail. Please take the time to migrate them or poke us: WMDE can still support you during migration - what we can’t do is maintain abandoned tools in the long run. >From July 1st on, the toolserver admins will still hand you over your backups upon request and create redirects to Tool Labs for you. You won’t be able to log in to the toolserver anymore though. If anyone wants to have and reuse other people’s code, we recommend to seek approval from them directly, even if from a legal point of view there is no problem. Don’t hesitate to talk to us if you need a contact person. Here is a collection of the relevant links for you again: Tool Labs: http://tools.wmflabs.org Tool Labs help pages: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help How to create redirects to Tool Labs: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/.htaccess#.htaccess Magnus Manske’s migration manual: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools… Scripts to clean up your toolserver account]] after migration: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page Mailing list Labs-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l IRC channel #wikimedia-labs: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-labs Marc-André Pelletier (Coren) and Andrew Bogott (andrewbogott) are the WMF Tool Labs ops. Petr Bena (petan) and Tim Landscheidt (scfc_de) are voluntary Tool Labs admins. We invite you to join our IRC office hour in #wikimedia-office on Wednesday, June 11th, at 5 p.m. UTC. Contact: The migration is coordinated by Silke Meyer (WMDE). Birgit Müller supports her in communications. The two toolserver admins Marlen Caemmerer und Alexander Mette are glad to help you with advice. Marc-André Pelletier can answer all questions concerning Tool Labs. Contact us at Silke: silke.meyer(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [5], IRC: Silke_WMDE Birgit: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de, Talk page at [6], IRC: Birgit_WMDE We hope that the transition will happen as smoothly as possible! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org [3] https://toolserver.org/ [4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:MerlBot [5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Silke_WMDE [6] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Birgit_Müller_(WMDE) -- Birgit Müller Team Communitys Community Liaison Volunteer Support Department E-Mail: birgit.mueller(a)wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. -- Nicole Ebber Leiterin Internationales Head of International Affairs Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 30 219158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Chapters mailing list Chapters(a)wikimedia.ch https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/chapters

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Subpages on Wikidata
by Luiz Augusto 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

I don't recall what is the current stage of consensus regarding Wikisource subpages on Wikidata, but because while playing "The Game" [1] I keep getting this kind of item (mostly from es.wikisource), I've managed a way to at least track those stuff [2] I didn't did an exhaustive search for such items and I keep finding new, but at this momment it returns 2k of items. [1] - https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/ [2] - http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?q=CLAIM%5B31%3A1715235…

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