Hi everyone,
I hope you're all well.
I'm sorry I didn't post for a long time, so here is some news (not
exhaustive, feel free to answer with your own news):
- first and foremost, the Wishlist is back and it starts next Monday:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021 let's gather
our best idea again this year!
- as usual, if you did something related to Wikisource, don't hesitate to
add it on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/2020_Report
(especially in this strange year, if you did some online activities, I'd
love to hear about it!)
- an "Affiliates Data Survey" run by mail and by the Foundation is coming;
I'll get in touch with you soon, if you are interested to share your
experience with the Wikisource community, feel free to contact me in
private.
- here is a very interesting and promising project to improve
Wikidata-Wikisource Integration :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite/grant/Improving_Wikidata-Wikisourc…
Finally, as an official user group, the Foundation requires 2 primary
contacts, for now (and since a long time), I'm the only contact, which is
problematic.
Also, for me, I'd be happy to have some help ;)
Are there any candidates?
Cheers,
For the WCUG,
Nicolas
Last week, we had a Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020 event. see
here for full details
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_2020
Though I did not participate in this event, (feels sad for this. Life
is too messy nowadays), I thought to build a small tool to give report
on any wikipedia user’s contribution on a given wikisite for a given
date range.
It may help to calculate, measure, decide on the contributions for
such competitions.
Mediawiki has a good API to fetch user contributions.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Usercontribs
Get all edits by a user.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Usercontribs
For my wonder, there was a sample python code on the same page.
The code gave only 500 results. I wrote a loop to get the data batch
by batch till all the data is received.
Published the tool here –
https://github.com/tshrinivasan/wiki_user_contributions_report
How to run?
python3 get_user_contributions.py <language> <wikisite> <username>
<start_date> <end_date>
This will give the data as a CSV file. Used a csv-to-html converter
utility to convert this to a web page with all the data in a sortable
table.
For my wonder, my friend Dinesh Karthik, converted this as a nice web
application with flask, dash and hosted in heroku.
https://wiki-user-contributions.herokuapp.com/
Source : https://github.com/Dineshkarthik/wiki-user-contributions
Thanks to Info-farmer for providing the idea, Bartosz Dziewoński on
wikipedia mailing list for answering all my questions, Dinesh for
making a web application quickly.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
is a good place to ask any tech questions regarding wikipedia.
Thanks to all wikisource contributors for the event and in general.
--
Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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Hello all,
CIS-A2K is planning to organize a 3-days long online event which is to be
called WIkimedia Wikimeet India 2021 (WMWM) from 19th to 21st February,
2021 on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. Find more
details here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021
We are excited to announce that Wikisource will be one of the major areas
of focus on the event. We sincerely hope that the experienced volunteers
from the global Wikisource community will play a major role in planning and
conducting quality Wikisource sessions there.
We will send regular updates related to the event through different
relevant mailing lists and newsletters. You can subscribe for the
newsletter if you wish -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikimedia_W…
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
On behalf of WMWM
Hello Indic Wikisource proofreaders,
We are very happy to announce that the Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II
2020 [1] is starting from tomorrow and will continue up to 15 November.
As this year, we are facing devastating effects of COVID-19, we urge you
to stay inside your home to avoid exposure to the deadly virus.
We are also expecting higher participation than previous contest We
heartily welcome new Wikimedians from different parts of the country to
work on restoring our literary heritage to digital era. Just like previous
contest held on May 2020, we again promising to wrap up everything within
the expected timeline after the competition ends and we are going to keep
our promise again. :-)
Welcome you all in the contest.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_2020