Wikisource-l April 2015

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Italian Wikisource in the (digital) library
by Andrea Zanni 05 May '15

05 May '15

Hello everyone. I'm happy to tell you that, right now, the Italian Wikisource has been indexed by MediaLibrary Online, a digital library platform used by over 4000 libraries in Italy: http://www.medialibrary.it/media/ricerca.aspx?seltip=310&selarg=-1&keywords… As an employee of MediaLibrary Online, I worked in these months to get all the metadata and index the texts. A bit of perspective * All the texts have been either proofread or validated. They are not all whole books: we indexed the texts directly in namespace 0 (and not in the Index: namespace), in order to provide the user a better search experience and findability. This, in our opinion, is very important: we used the MediaWiki API to retrieve all the data, and some HTML scraping for the rest :-) * We link directly the EPUB generated by the awesome tool from Tpt, but also to the page in Wikisource. * We automatically generated the EPUB covers for every text which didn't have one. Ex: http://www.medialibrary.it/media/scheda.aspx?id=850275912 MediaLibraryOnline is a digital platform that provide Italian libraries with the possibility of lend digital resource, as ebook or audiobooks. It's not just "a portal on the Internet", but a service used and managed by single libraries for their uses. It also has an "Open" collection, freely accessible and downloadable for everyone (and not only the patrons of the libraries which have access to MediaLibrary). I've been hired few months ago to develop such collection, and this is a major milestone for us (and for me :-). I'm expecially excited by the fact that now Wikisource ebooks "enter" in the collection of libraries, and often in their very catalog. I think it is a very good step forward for our project, and I'm eager to replicate this project with other Wikisources as well :-) If needed, I can explain some details. Cheers, Aubrey

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Nominations being accepted for 2015 Wikimedia Foundation elections
by Gregory Varnum 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Greetings, I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To this end they have published letters <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_fo…> describing what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the community the best are the community themselves, the election committee is accepting nominations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015#Informa…> for community members you think should run and will reach out to those nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election process. This year, elections are being held for the following roles: *Board of Trustees* The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Board_e…. *Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)* The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/FDC_ele… . *Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud* The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/FDC_Omb… . The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this election and the nomination process can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015. Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections(a)wikimedia.org On behalf of the Elections Committee, -Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent) Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee

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Wsexport
by Andrea Zanni 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Hello everyone. I'm having trouble using the WSexport tool: it is very slow, and some longer books are not even converted. Is it working for you? BTW, I was wondering if it is possible to use a sort of cache in the tool, that generate a new book only if a page has been modified since the last last download... Not sure how difficult it is. Aubrey

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Do you still need scripts to extract djvu?
by Amir Ladsgroup 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hey, we are working on porting old scripts of pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia) to the new framework of pywikibot (pywikibot-core). One of the scripts is djvutext.py but we are told that since Proofread extension exists. Wikisource bot operators doesn't need something like this anymore. A disunion in phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66853> is going on. I appreciate if you participate. Best

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April Fool's day
by Andrea Zanni 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/News_… Look at the Sister projects news... :-D Aubrey

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Phetools down
by Andrea Zanni 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Here: http://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=1 Another, unrelated, question: what is hocr.py? I see a lot of jobs here (also down right now): http://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/hocr_cgi.py?cmd=status&filter=all Aubrey

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