Hello Wikisourcerers,
I would like to present a digital library catalogue built for Wikisource
named Sangkalak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123617697> (in Bangla
সংকলক), which you can find here - https://sangkalak.toolforge.org . This
tool was primarily built for Bangla Wikisource back in 2023 as a Wikidata's
birthday gift
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Presents> and is
widely used in that project since then. It was previously presented at the GLAM
Wiki Conference 2023
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikisource_and_Wikid…!>
and Wikisource Conference 2025
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Conference_2025/Submissions/Wiki…!>.
After a presentation at the recent Wikidata and sister projects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects> online
event, it was decided to make this tool available for other languages
Wikisources as well and hence it can be used by any language Wikisource
communities from now, if they wish. However, as it was primarily built for
the Bangla community, the default interface language shall be Bangla.
You can search the books using 5 parameters like title, author, translator,
editor and publisher using 4 functions i.e. contains, exact match, starts
with and ends with along with and/or operators. You can query as many times
as possible using these parameters, functions and operators by simply
adding new lines. After querying for results, you can sub-filter the
results again for authors, translators, editors, publishers, places of
publication, dates of publication, forms, genres and main subjects at the
left sidebar. The tool provides the option to get permanent links, so that
you can use them on Wikisource and elsewhere. The tool can be accessed from
mobile also.
The tool is dependent on Wikidata based query and strictly follows the FRBR
data model described at Wikidata:Books
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books>. So, if any
Wikisource community is correctly storing the descriptive metadata on
Wikidata following this page, their books can be searched in this
catalogue. Please note that, if the data model is not followed properly on
Wikidata, the books may not come in results, for which you can resolve
constraint violations in those relevant items, as necessary.
The tool only queries for those items which use P1957
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957>. If any item has a sitelink
to Wikisource, the tool links to the corresponding Wikisource main
namespace and gives options to export the books with PDF, Mobi and Epub
formats using the WS-export tool. If the sitelinks have proofread and
validated badges, it displays them. If the item does not have a sitelink to
Wikisource, it links to the index namespaces. The tool also displays QR
codes for mobile users. Support for OPDS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_Distribution_System> is
underway.
The interface languages of the tool are currently Bangla and English.
However, if you want this tool to be available in your language, you can
translate the strings in the json file attached below, save it and send it
back to us, so that we can include them in the code.
I would like to specially thank Mahir Morshed who has been developing this
tool in his volunteer capacity.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Hello everyone,
I'm excited to invite you to the 31st edition of the DCW Conversation Hour,
featuring John Cummings, a Wikimedian in Residence and passionate advocate
for open knowledge. John has worked with some of the world’s leading
institutions, including UNESCO and multiple UN agencies, where he helped
make vast amounts of knowledge freely available on Wikimedia platforms. In
this session, we'll explore the scope, impact, and challenges of the WiR
role as well as how it empowers both Wikimedia communities and institutions
to collaborate for the public good.
As the Wikimedia movement thrives on collaboration—not just among
volunteers, but with institutions that hold vast repositories of knowledge.
One powerful bridge between these institutions and the Wikimedia ecosystem
is the Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR).
The conversation hour is scheduled for Sunday, 27 July 2025, at 14:30 UTC
(8:00 p.m. IST).
We have integrated registration directly into the event page; the link is
provided below.
https://dcwwiki.org/dc-nx
I'm excited to see you participate. Please bring along your questions!
Kind regards,
Ariba
Deoband Community Wikimedia