Hi all,
There's been some discussion at
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_talk:WikiProject_Social_media#Twi…
about the @wikisource Twitter account (and others).
I've just been made a team member of @wikisource, and we should add some
more people too.
The idea is that @wikisource is the cross-Wikisource account, and each
language Wikisource can also have its own account (e.g. @wikisource_fr
@wikisource_de, etc. here's a list I started this morning:
https://twitter.com/wikisource/lists/wikisources/members are there any
others?)
So, who wants to be added, and what are your Twitter usernames?
We'll also have @wikisource_en later today or tomorrow; same deal.
The passwords for these accounts are held by Aubrie Johnson, the WMF
social media person.
Thanks,
Sam.
Hi Anne,
Thank you for the confirmation.
I've got a question both for you and for the wikisourcerers, do we want and
should we keep using WSexport or should we try to integrate WSexport
functionalities into more general tool? (for the second option, we need to
exchange about our specific needs and desires).
My point of view is that we are quite happy with WSexport right now so we
could say « if it ain't broken don't fix it » but on the other hand the
maintain a specific tool tailored for our specifities but it could be
useful for others and there is always the risk that nobody maintain it
anymore (a more general tool generally - but not always - having more
chances of being maintain).
I'd like to hear you point of view and the point of view of people
maintaining WSexport (mainly our beloved wikisourcerer supreme Tpt ;) )
Cdlt, ~nicolas
Anne Gomez, 11/10/2017 02:12:
> In case you're interested, the Foundation will be working to replace OCG
> over the coming months. I wanted to make sure you're aware in case you
> rely on any of this infrastructure and/or have plans for further
> development dependent on it.
>
> What this means in the short term is that PDF book rendering (through
> Book Creator) will be shut off for a few months at least while a
> suitable replacement is researched, tested, and built.
>
> Here's the full write up:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
>
> Let me know if you have any questions or if this has major impact to
> your work.
It does, of course. Wikisource and Wikibooks users sorely need to print
books for offline reading, it's something we keep hearing from anybody
in "real life".
Removing basic functionality and downgrading existing features for no
gain is an excellent long-run method to kill projects like Wikibooks,
Wikisource and Wikiversity whose potential users (such as teachers and
other OER folks) may prefer alternative platforms which show more care.
Nemo
Hi all,
I've fixed a couple of issues with IA Upload:
* Some uploads, probably mostly from BUB, were running foul of the abuse
filter because they included a link to books.google.com. This link is
now being replaced prior to upload by the {{Google Book Search link}}
template (which is an ID template, not so much a search template).
* The attempt to find a creator template on Commons now discards date
ranges.
* Attempts to use the tool on items that don't have DjVu, PDF, or JP2
Zip files will now fail. I'm not sure what people who were attempting to
make DjVus of MP3s were thinking, but they'll get a nicer error message
now.
I dare say I'm broken something along the way, so do keep an eye out for
weirdnesses and let me know.
Thanks,
sam.
Meet the human behind
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Hirtle_chart !
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Federico
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Data: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:36:17 +0000
Mittente: Yuan Li
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The IA Upload tool now will work with files over 100 MB.
Example of large file uploaded:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Once_a_Week,_Series_1,_Volume_X.djvu
(278.92 MB, 736 pages).
Sorry this took very long. There were a few steps to getting it working.
Let me know if it fails for you!
:)
Thanks,
Sam.
Hi everyone,
>From January to April of this year, we had hangout session to talk more
directly about Wikisource (see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group#2017 for
the notes of these sessions).
Among subjects that can be discuss:
- Wikisource and Wikidata (and some infos about the WikidataCon in Berlin
last weekend)
- a second Wikisource conference in 2018 ?
- various issues or accomplishments you want to share or need help from
others
- the Wikisource Community User Group
What do you think of doing this again? Who would be interested to join? (it
was during week-end - Saturday or Sunday - afternoon to allow people from
all other the globe to join in, I suggest Saturday 4 from 14:00 UTC to
15:00 UTC
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=November+Wikisour…
).
Cdlt, ~nicolas
I've just been experimenting with adding a quick-statements generator to
https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-search — search for something, with 'linked
to wikidata = no', and then each row of the results has a popup with
code you can copy and paste into quickstatements.
I don't know if that sort of thing is useful. It's not working with many
fields yet, but I'm finding it faster than entering the basics manually.
—sam.
The more I read about it-ws Opera namespace, the more I'm interested in it.
On frws we use "multiple editions" a lot, especially on poems and short
stories, that have been published in different collections. Do you do
that too ?
Also, I had a fantasy, these past weeks, working about "work items" on
wikidata, that we could point on wikisource "work" page, whether we have
1 or multiple editions.
Presently, when, for a poem, we have only 1 edition, we put it in its
collection subpage, and keed the poem title as redirect, then transform
it to "multiple editions" when we get some. This totally prevents to add
those to wikidata, because redirects are not supported ; thus, editions
are added to work items, by adding redirects.
I was wondering whether adding a template similar to "redirect with
possibility" (enwp) could help solve this problem.
Wonder what solution would be best, considering that the creation of a
full-developped "work-page" on a poem could be tricky...
So, what do you think all of you ?
Hélène (frwikisource)
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> 2017-10-31 18:45 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>:
>
>> For the "work" concept, Italian Wikisource decided to create a real and
>> new namespace, "Opera" (which means work).
>> It's the one page where we store the links to multiple editions of a
>> certain book we have.
>>
>> It's not a disambiguation page in the sense that a disambiguation page
>> works with different books from different authors with the same title
>> e.g. "Poems"...
>>
>> Aubrey
>>
> I forgot about that too.
> Aubrey; Could you tell us the advantage and inconvenient of this system
> (and in comparison to the 'multiple editions' pages of the others
> Wikisources).
>
> Cdlt, ~nicolas
>
> PS: this is the kind of question that would be interesting to have during a
> hangout session like we had (I will write a separate mail to re-launch them)
>