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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Hi everyone!
This week we (the Community Tech
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> team, of which I'm a
part) are going to roll out phab:T256392
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256392> which will move the
functionality of the MediaWiki:Gadget-WSexport.js
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-WSexport.js> gadget
into the Wikisource extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikisource>. There are a bunch
of Wikisources that have this gadget, and others that provide similar
links via common.js or other scripts, and I and the other CommTech
engineers will be scooting around cleaning up scripts wherever we can,
but if anyone notices anything amiss please let me know!
Any existing translations that I could find have been copied into the
extension, but there are still a few languages missing translations.
Have a look at
translatewiki:Special:MessageGroupStats?group=ext-wikisource
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&language=…>
and translate any that you know.
This is a smallish change and is a precursor to the larger change that
hopefully will come soon of enabling a 'download' button at the top of
works (as some Wikisources already do). See phab:T266262
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266262> for more about that.
Thanks,
Sam.
PS The 'Choose other format' link is still annoying in that it doesn't
prefill the title. This will be fixed soon, in T256345
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256345>.