Wikisource-l January 2016

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Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

Hi, For a long time Indic languages Wikisource projects depended totally on manual proofreading, which not only wasted a lot of time, but also a lot of energy. Recently Google has released OCR software for more than 20 Indic languages, along with other Asian languages. This software is far far better and accurate than the previous OCRs. But it has many limitations. Uploading the same large file two times (one time for Google OCR and another at Commons) is not an easy solution for most of the contributors, as Internet connection is way slow in India. Now if we develop a tool which can feed the uploaded pdf or djvu files of Commons directly to Google OCRs, so that uploading them 2 times can be avoided. This was proposed in 2015 community wishlist. Now, as the voting procedure for the wishlist has been started, the proposal needs your support. Please follow the link- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource#T… FYI, this proposal was also accepted as a highest priority need at the 2015 Wikisource Conference in Vienna. (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs) Regards -- Bodhisattwa Mandal Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia ''Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.''

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BUB is back
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

FYI Rohit is being as fantastic as usual again. * https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3Atools.bub&sort=-publicdate * https://github.com/rohit-dua/BUB/pulse Nemo

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Index page move with corresponding Page: move
by Jayanta Nath 24 Jan '16

24 Jan '16

Hi all, Are there ant tool / bot to Index page move with corresponding Page: move. We need to rename/move some index page. How could we do? Regards, Jayanta Nath

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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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Wikimedia Hackathon
by Andrea Zanni 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

If you are a community developer interested in working on this task:** The Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016> (Jerusalem, March 31 - April 3) focuses on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-wishlist-survey/ projects. There is some budget for sponsoring volunteer developers. THE DEADLINE TO REQUEST TRAVEL SPONSORSHIP IS TODAY, JANUARY 21. Exceptions can be made for developers focusing on Community Wishlist projects until the end of Sunday 24, but not beyond. If you or someone you know is interested, please REGISTER NOW <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2016>. Aubrey

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Discourse for Wikisource mailing list
by Andrea Zanni 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

Luis Villa, from WMF, asks if there is a list that wants to try Discourse: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/081244.html Discourse is a (great) software for discussion, and it could be very useful for giving order to the many mailing lists that we have in the Wikimedia world. This list is active but not too much, so I'm asking you if we want to propose as guinea pigs :-) Many great open source projects use Discourse, so we are far from being pioneers, and from what I've seen we could really benefit from the many features the software has. Just look it yourselves: discourse.org Aubrey

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Template help needed
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Hi, I need a template solution for the following proof-reading problem I faced in Bengali Wikisource. There is a reference in Page 1 which is continued in Page 2. I have used the following code in Page 1:- <ref> Text of Page 1 reference and <includeonly>text of Page 2 reference</includeonly></ref> It was okay while proof-reading, but when it was transcluded in mainspace, its not working. There the text of Page 2 reference is not shown. Can anyone help me with a solution? Do we need some more templates? Thanks. -- Bodhisattwa

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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikimedia-l] Proposal for New Project - Wikilore
by John Mark Vandenberg 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

in regards to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilore On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Johan Jönsson <brevlistor(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-01-18 16:37 GMT+01:00 Tanweer Morshed <wiki.tanweer(a)gmail.com>: >> Yeah, I do think the same as well. Wikisource is a good option for that. > > It could be that the Wikisources I'm familiar with are the exceptions, > but they tend to be very vary of material that has never been > published, and this seems to very much be about writing down what's > passed down orally. > > I also imagine the need to do this would be greater the smaller the > language, or at least the less likely it is someone else would write > them down, which probably would correlate with fewer persons who are > potential Wikimedians. Wouldn't that require the creation of a fair > number of Wikisources that would probably never have a decent chance > of getting a community? Wikisource could host most of it, if the oral history is recorded from a native speaker and direct cultural participant. There was a good talk about this at the Hong Kong Wikimania. The recording would be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and then the transcription can be created on the Multilingual Wikisource, or a more appropriate Wikisource if one exists for the language, and it is a valid source because it has appropriate provenance. Some Wikisource might reject this type of work, especially if the provenance was not high quality, but if provenance is high quality it is a valid type of source. -- John Vandenberg

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Last CFP: GCIRE2016 - Green Computing, Intelligent and Renewable Energies
by Conference Announcement 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

The Second International Conference on Green Computing, Intelligent and Renewable Energies (GCIRE2016) University of Perpetual Help System DALTA Las Piñas-Manila, Philippines February 24-26, 2016 http://sdiwc.net/conferences/gcire2016/ ======================================= The event will be held over three days with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. All registered papers will be included in the SDIWC Digital Library. RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDES ( BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO): - Benefits of, and barriers to, adopting greener IT practices - Carbon metering and user feedback - Climate and ecosystem monitoring - Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling - Energy-aware high performance computing and applications - Energy-aware software - Energy-efficient network services and operations - Green IT metrics, maturity models, standards, and regulations - Green computing models, methodologies and paradigms - Green networking and communication - Life-cycle analysis of IT equipment - Management and profiling tools for energy efficient systems - Modeling-representations, simulation and validation for energy consumption optimization problems - Online dynamic optimization for energy efficient systems - Power-aware algorithms and protocols - Power-efficient delivery and cooling - Renewable energy models and prediction - Smart buildings and urban development - Smart homes, buildings, offices, streets - Stability of smart energy systems - Using IT to reduce carbon emissions - Carbon management policies and ecology- related issues with ICT - Characterization, metrics, and modeling - Creating green awareness using IT - Energy-aware computing - Energy-aware large scale distributed systems, such as Grids, Clouds and service computing - Energy-efficient mass data storage and processing - Governments’ roles in fostering and enforcing green initiatives - Green business process reengineering and management - Green design, manufacture, use, disposal, and recycling of computers and communication systems - Green software engineering - Low-power electronics and systems - Matching energy supply and demand - Network design optimization - Optimization of energy-efficient protocols - Power-aware software and hardware - Reliability, thermal behavior and control - Robustness and performance guarantees - Smart grid and microgrids - Smart transportation and manufacturing - Sustainable computing SPECIAL ISSUES: - International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA); EISSN 2220-9085, ISSN 2412-3587 - International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF); EISSN 2225-658X, ISSN 2412-6551 - International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (IJDIWC); EISSN 2305-0012 - International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA); EISSN 2410-0439 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: - Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically as pdf format without author(s) name. - Full paper must be submitted (abstracts are not acceptable). - Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations and must be without page numbers. - Paper submission link: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/gcire2016/paper-submission/ IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: January 24, 2016 Acceptance Notification:2-3 weeks from the submission date or Feb. 3, 2016 Camera Ready Deadline: February 14, 2016 Registration Deadline: February 14, 2016 Conference Dates: February 24 - 26, 2016 Please see co-event conferences to be held in the Philippines: * The International Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Computing Technologies (ICIISCT2016) * The Second International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, and Mechatronics (EEETEM2016)

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Questions
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hi, Two questions- 1) Is there any bot running which can use the IA upload tool to transfer files from Internet Archive to Commons? I see lots and lots of public domain files in IA but they are not present in Commons. Its next to impossible to be done manually. 2) Is there any bot running, which can create index pages in respective language Wikisources, whenever a pdf or djvu files are uploaded from IA? If they are not present, can theses bot accounts be created? Regards -- Bodhisattwa

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