Wikisource-l November 2020

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by Nicolas VIGNERON

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

2 years, 10 months

Releasing a small tool to explore wikipedia users contributions

by Shrinivasan T

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 My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com

2 years, 10 months

GLAM and Culture Office Hours (23-24 November 2020)

by Satdeep Gill

Hello everyone, The second meeting of the November Office Hours of the WMF’s GLAM and Culture team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team> is happening today, 24 November 2020, in about two hours at 11am UTC or 4:30pm Indian Time (https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/91430251682). This month’s focus is Wikisource and we will present our work coordinating across movement stakeholders to improve Wikisource infrastructure. Today, we will be joined by Wikimedia UK <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK> who will present their project with the staff of the National Library of Scotland <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_NLS>. Best Satdeep -- Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him) Program Officer GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

3 years

GLAM and Culture Office Hours (23-24 November 2020)

by Satdeep Gill

Hello everyone, The first meeting of the November Office Hours of the WMF’s GLAM and Culture team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team> is happening today, 23 November 2020, in about one hour at 3.30-4.30pm UTC or 9 PM Indian Time (https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/92838311850). This month’s focus is Wikisource and we will present our work coordinating across movement stakeholders to improve Wikisource infrastructure. Today, we will be joined by PanLex <https://panlex.org/>, who will share their grant-funded project to develop Balinese palm-leaf transcription platform on Wikisource <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/PanLex/Balinese_palm-leaf_tr…> . Best Satdeep -- Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him) Program Officer GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

3 years

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021

by Bodhisattwa Mandal

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

3 years

GLAM and Culture Office Hours (23-24 November 2020)

by Satdeep Gill

Hello everyone, The third Office Hours of the WMF’s GLAM and Culture team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team> is on Monday 23 November 3.30-4.30pm UTC (https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/92838311850) and will be repeated on Tuesday 24 November 11.00am-12.00pm UTC ( https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/91430251682). This month’s focus is Wikisource and we will present our work coordinating across movement stakeholders to improve Wikisource infrastructure. On Monday, we will be joined by PanLex <https://panlex.org/>, who will share their grant-funded project to develop Balinese palm-leaf transcription platform on Wikisource <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/PanLex/Balinese_palm-leaf_tr…> . On Tuesday, we will be joined by Wikimedia UK <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK> who will present their project with the National Library of Scotland staff <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_NLS>. P.S. Community Wishlist Survey 2021 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021> is now accepting proposals for any features and changes on Wikimedia projects. Make sure to submit your proposals by 30th November 18:00 UTC. Regards Satdeep

3 years

Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II 2020

by Jayanta Nath

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

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