Wikisource-l November 2015

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Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google's Optical Character Recognition software now works with all South Asian languages
by Jayanta Nath 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hi All, I have checked for Bengali Images, its works fine with 100% accuracy. Any how can it be implemented in Proofread extension? Regards, Jayanta ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Subhashish Panigrahi <subhashish(a)cis-india.org> Date: Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:22 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google's Optical Character Recognition software now works with all South Asian languages To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Google's OCR which apparently is most accurate OCR we have seen so far, works really good for all the major South Asian scripts: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/08/29/googles-optical-character-recog nition-software-now-works-with-all-south-asian-languages Here are test cases of many Indian scripts: https://goo.gl/3X75iR. Except Gurmukhi most scripts are working really good. This could be really useful for Indian language Wikimedians and will come handy for digitization of printed and scanned text. Here is an animated tutorial for Wikimedians to use this tool for Wikisource/Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_to_use_Google_Optical_C haracter_Recognition.gif Please write to me if anyone wants to localize this tutorial in your language. - -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV4YD0AAoJEHThehXZGxGO9ywP/RcJOXB3tFHJNF03X23x1jkY vffu+1Iob6kLMZt/JD3nTmpXasXDlme6pbGzaT7/YZsC0VouN+4NE9HoEmZAksJF 3nn7HoEive4mDalXH5qyATOilezqIEYOG2c32LVYHnX6Co+fXPVa5WqsHn5js957 OionIc5t0V9zlGB6e5RLOacPWXsAhXyVunaeY6Ma33cOWHFdVnu1XpUGphJ+miVj EWszTzjDOPlFiMsSsVonjWHvuz7hYPKXxvVXViXY1QAsoOT7wztvOepzM/hAPmYM kGiODSaN8fU/e/2l4xdnMRymAt8hsz61hdye2UYx7xRjlda/23BKNZz0hiuWiqgO FBntHycaHyqR8+fUK5EPE0vnqLp/7XdtRtQkRficuEDYlHz4PlMW8oiVEGhSZOaG fdpgg02sojU1iMOGOs3h/ODWxkRrE3qpG+eT8n1mWJp6Tq7ZLEaQGxW1P6ytlPFF qOz8JKl94D/MI7ybAtp+IsuUQk160H9wUPmaLxgemDRom7220xV6BysbmaMEWwww hgO4fBNG6dPUMp825pTSxx18rY/Kw53sgHmUasixCL6Zv6xnM3rRuTxjZh8j77TR gq2sKgoU+JkYt9eBpVRjrFO90xS5MxPrvL/lGH6P1smAODPull3o0tR681+NGKRp C8vU5vJOlmL+HlNXBSh9 =lwbI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum
by Alex Brollo 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

I'm deeply convinced that splitting wikisource projects into variuos languages has been a mistake. Is anyone so bold to imagine that it is possible to revert that mistake? Or, are we forced to travel along the* diabolicum* trail? Alex

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Wikisource birthday contest
by Andrea Zanni 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

Hi everyone, can you tell me how many communities are doing, right now, the contest for the birthday of Wikisource? it.source is doing that, but I don't know about Catalans, for example. Also, I remember there was the code for counting people here: http://pastebin.com/2bifzpjn Is it updated? Aubrey

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] TPP - copyright
by Jayanta Nath 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Gnangarra* <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> Date: Friday 6 November 2015 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] TPP - copyright To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, " affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> We have a new problem to face in the coming months assuming countries ratify the Trans Pacific Partnership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership The text of the agreement has been released in the last 24 hours, early commentary is indicating that copyright changes will occur restoring copyright to some works that are currently PD. http://boingboing.net/2015/11/06/how-tpp-will-clobber-canadas.html According reports this will affect media sourced in Canada where copyright will be extended from 50-70 years meaning that image sin this period may need to be deleted both on commons and on en:wp, Australian sourced images face a similar issue as will other countries. Rather than a piece meal commons copyright battle, and a duplicate one on en:wp being lead by unqualified wikilawyers resulting in project discrepancies. I'm calling on the community to take more holistic approach and request that the WMF ask for its legal eagles to give an edict we can take or communities to explain what will happen in each jurisdiction as the TPP is ratified. This will also give us guidance as to how Affiliates can approach and support activities locally to ensure material that is already freely available remains so. -- G ideon President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra _______________________________________________ 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 <javascript:;> ?subject=unsubscribe>

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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikitech-l] Introducing WikiToLearn to developers
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

Your code modifications for http://wikitolearn.org/ are interesting. I'm pretty sure that KDE policies don't force you to fork MediaWiki extensions locally, so your patches are definitely welcome upstream. I'm not sure what you mean with your point about <dmath> being rejected by the community; perhaps you refer to some performance decision made by WMF. If your modifications to Math are incompatible with some decision of the maintainers, you can ask a different repository on gerrit or another branch on the same repository, so that non-WMF users can use your code. As for your comments on chapters and drafts, I don't see anything incompatible with how Wikibooks and Wikiversity work. If you have a solution for what we call "book management" i.e. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T17071 (worked on by Raylton and others with https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GSoC_Mediawiki_Book_Experience ), that's especially interesting. To reach the Wikibooks and Wikiversity community, the best way is to use a medium that can involve their active editors, such as their mailing lists (cc'ed here) or wikis. Nemo

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Template Wikipedia
by Tobias Schönberg 26 Nov '15

26 Nov '15

Hi all! As is typical for smaller communities, connecting all the pages to Wikidata items can be a major undertaking. Luckily many users have already used Template:Wikipdia (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15632185) to connect Wikisource pages to Wikipedia pages. Because Wikipedia pages are already connected quite well to Wikidata, it is easy to find the common item. I ran a bot on ar-wikisource and found ~400 inclusions of the template. The bot set ~170 sitelinks. The rest of the pages either already had a sitelink or the corresponding Wikipedia page did not have a Wikidata-item yet. Having also checked around 30 items by hand I couldn't find any mistakes, which shows that the template is well curated. If anyone would like me to run the bot on another language of Wikisource or share the code just send me a message. -Tobias

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Thank you again to all for the Wikisource Conference
by Mathieu Stumpf Guntz 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hello, I just wanted to thank everybody which participated at the event, and especially the team which managed it. Also a special credit to WMfr which granted scholarships to me and several other people I was please to meet. I learned a lot during this week and was really happy with the outcome. Being able to have face to face discussions with some of you was really great. Your enthusiasm and kindness is a major source of motivation and inspiration. I hope that each attendee will have a troubleless return trip, and for those who stayed some extra days, that they thoroughly enjoy their time in Vienna and surroundings. I was personally totally impressed by the architecture! Also it was such a pleasure to be able to dance with Asaf. :P Kind regards, mathieu

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A new book from Karen Coyle
by Andrea Zanni 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Here: https://books.google.com.br/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=AYX3CgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&p… (unfortunately, there is only the paper version). Karen Coyle is a great librarian, who also collaborates with Internet archive and OpenLibrary. She's also an expert in FRBR and bibliographic models, so this book should be really of interest for all of us who are trying to wrap their minds around books, Wikisource and Wikidata :-) Aubrey

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Scribe
by Andrea Zanni 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

This seems pretty interesting... http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/11/23/scribe-framework-community-transcription A new transcription framework, from a collaboration between New York Public Library and Zooniverse (!!). Aubrey

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Wikimania 2016 - Joint session Wikidata-Wikisource?
by Tobias Schönberg 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Hi all! Would anyone be interested in continuing the discussion we had at Wikisource Conference 2015 ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_…) at Wikimania 2016? We could hold a Wikidata & Wikisource session and exchange ideas for the future of text-metadata. If so, I would be very happy if some people could comment on this page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2016 All the best in the mean time, -Tobias

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