Wikisource-l May 2017

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Budget for Wikisource
by Andrea Zanni 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Dear all, Wikimedia Italia put in its budget 3000€ for Wikisource-related work. When we discussed this, months ago, we thought about paying a developer for the DJVU issue of the IA-Upload tool, which then has been resolved by our beloved Sam Wilson. The tool is still not perfect (I often get errors), so maybe some development is still needed, but I'd ask you (especially technically skilled people like Tpt, Sam, Philippe, etc.) if you think there is some low-hanging fruit that could be reached with that kind of budget. Of course, we will be looking for developers, so if you want to propose yourself for something, please do! ;-) Aubrey

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disappearance of certain elements in editor in Tamil wkisource
by balaji 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Hi, Recently I am finding a problem in Tamil wikisource. If I am not logged in, then enchanced editor is appearing. [image: Inline image 1] Once I log in with my user id : Balajijagadesh then the enhanced editing tools is disappearing as below [image: Inline image 1] It is a major discomfort to proof read without the enhanced editing toolings. Any one faced similar problems? how to rectify it. Thanks in advance, Regards, J.Balaji.

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Move IA Upload issue tracking to Phabricator
by Sam Wilson 11 May '17

11 May '17

Hi all, Does anyone mind if I copy all outstanding issues from https://github.com/wikisource/ia-upload/issues to the IA Upload column on the Wikisource Phabricator board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikisource/ ? It just seems nicer to have everything on one place, and Phab seems better for that because then I can get things seen to within Community Tech. @Tpt, I know we spoke about this once, but I can't remember what we decided. Thanks, Sam.

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The failure of the WScUg (Re: Scanner for you?)
by David Cuenca Tudela 09 May '17

09 May '17

Hi all, I want to thank Carles for offering the scanner back to our community. In the Wikisource Community User Group sometimes believed that by creating an upper international organization, we would be able to affect the things happening at the base of our movement and at the top. But that has proved not to be true. The Wikisource Community User Group has failed to make a change in the world, and it is a pity, because we all seemed to share an understanding that our project would be very relevant for humanity. However, I have the strong feeling, and conviction that the approach we followed so far was totally wrong. And I want to acknowledge that general feeling. It is painful to accept, but to accept it will allow us to do things better in the future by relying more on the knowledge accumulated by chapters and thematic organizations about how to make things work. As a co-promoter (with Aubrey) of the WSCUg, I want to apologize for not being able to see this potential failure before. I hope that we all can agree that we are all humans and that we are allowed to make mistakes. Even if they are big ones. The intention was good, the result not so good. Sorry about that. Thanks for believing in the international wikisource community, a bunch of hyper-idealists following a crazy librarian's dream of a universal knowledge library... Let's take this impact, but let's keep trying. Every time with more force. I am totally convinced that together we can make it. Please, do provide input about how to reach our aspirations. Cheers, Micru On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for this update on the DIY scanner projects. > > Carles Paredes Lanau, 07/05/2017 20:18: > >> You can check the books scanned in the following link: >> https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586 >> > > Only one? Or do you mean all the 89 items in > https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb ? > > people from the museum weren't comfortable working with it, since it was >> very different from the scanners they used in the past. >> > > Interesting. Is there a description, even on the DIY scanner forums, of > what differences were most impactful for them? > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non

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Scanner for you?
by Carles Paredes Lanau 08 May '17

08 May '17

I'm writing to this list because we have got an scanner to share with any European chapter interested in working with institutions or for internal use of Wikimedia communities. Amical Wikimedia purchased and assembled The Archivist, DIY Book Scanner ( http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/) in March 2015. We wanted to work with several partners from our GLAM network, to help them to free resources and scan documents previously not avaliable for general public. We began a pilot project in Maritime Museum of Barcelona, a museum with whom we had already worked in the past and with the proper mindset. We had a member from Amical working there as professional librarian, too, so it was easier to implement the project. We provided a volunteer to assist the museum in tech issues. You can check the books scanned in the following link: https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586. It was an interesting project with relevant results. However, we decided to discontinue it because it needed a close assistant we could no longer offer and people from the museum weren't comfortable working with it, since it was very different from the scanners they used in the past. That's why we want to offer the scanner to other Wikisource communities or to some chapter with volunteers wanting to continue digitalisation projects. If there's anyone interested in having a The Archivist model, please answer back this mail so we can discuss how to handle it. Thanks in advanced. Carles Paredes (KRLS) Amical Wikimedia

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Re: [Wikisource-l] The failure of the WScUg (Re: Scanner for you?)
by Andrea Zanni 08 May '17

08 May '17

I'm out for the day and will have a call with David tonight, but i agree with Vigneron: from the start, the usergroup was just a "label" that we, as a community, invented to get more attention from wmf, chapters and glam. Also, it provides an umbrella for the sparse and international wikisource community: it is obvious to me that the ug is effective and active as much as we are personally effective and active. I personallycontinue to talk about wikisource in every wikimedia occasion i have. It's not much, but it's slowly increasing awareness about us.also we havenow a great opportunity to discuss azbout wikisource in the new strategy process: unfortunately, very few of us took the chance to express their opinions here, or even in their local community. I think this is still the greatest occasion we have. Il 08/mag/2017 15:03, "Nicolas VIGNERON" <vigneron.nicolas(a)gmail.com> ha scritto: Hi David, {{citation needed}} :P More seriously, I don't think that the WScUg has really failed. Sure, it runs slower right now and it can be improved but the group has accomplished some pretty awesome things (especially the wikisource conference in Wien which was awesome and resulted in the hiring of Sam Wilson by the WMF, etc.) Maybe we can discuss this during the next monthly WScUg Google Hangout? Cdlt, ~nicolas _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

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