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
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.
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.
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
>
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Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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
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
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