Hello everyone!
We are organizing a 2nd birthday party to celebrate 18 years of Wikisource
today (*November 28*) at *3 PM UTC*.
The first party had volunteers, WMF staff, partners as well as our incoming
CEO and contained some presentations. This party will mainly focus on
Wikisource volunteers although others are welcome!
Whoever is interested to join the, kindly share your email id via direct
message or my email (*sgill(a)wikimedia.org <sgill(a)wikimedia.org>*) and I
will send you to the invite.
Best
Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
As Wikisource turns 18 today, I would love to invite you all to celebrate
this occasion together at *1:30 PM UTC / 7 PM IST *(24 November 2021) - check
your timezone <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1637760610>.
Incoming CEO of the WMF, Maryana Iskander will be joining the conversation.
40+ people including wikisource volunteers, WMF staff and partners have
confirmed their participation for the event.
Some of the confirmed speakers are:
- Tom Derrick - British Library and Bengali Wikisource collaboration
- User:PseudoSkull - Transcribing films on Wikisource
- User:Sneha (CIS-A2K) - Research on Indic Wikisource projects
More details are available on the event page:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Eighteenth_Birthday
There is still time to get your invite to join the event. Just *reach out
to me at sgill(a)wikimedia.org <sgill(a)wikimedia.org>*.
Best
Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
as usual, I get surprised every time there are major changes on the
MediaWiki software that are deployed without providing advance warning to
the community.
Every time it's the same story: something stops working on the project. A
gadget, a toolbar or some personalised JS.
This time it was T288141 (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288141),
that was deployed in all the Wikisources (then rolled back because
WikiMedia computer scientists are the best) completely disrupting redesigning
the image side of the Page namespace. This affected the toolbars (see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296033) and several gadgets around all
the Wikisources.
I am not saying that MediaWiki software shouldn't be improved: it's normal
that we're trying to get all we can from this outdated software. I am just
asking that major changes that affect all the Wikisources should be
announced in every single Village Pump waaay before deploying them on the
projects.
Is it possible, as a Usergroup, to do a little pressure to be considered as
a community and not as guinea pigs on which to deploy new, partially-tested
features?
Alex
*Ruthven* on Wikipedia
Hi everyone,
As we are close to the end of this year, I started preparing the 2021
WCUG annual report. Formally, it is due end of November.
If anyone participated or organized some Wikisource events, please add
appropriate sections.
Cheers,
Ankry
Hello Wikisource enthusiasts and friends of Wikisource,
I hope you are doing alright! I would like to invite you to celebrate 18
years of Wikisource with the incoming CEO of the WMF, Maryana Iskendar
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Chief_Executive_Office…>
.
The event is scheduled to take place in 2 weeks from today on *24 November
2021* from *1:30 - 3:00 PM UTC *(check your local time
<toollabs:zonestamp/1637760610>). Feel free to drop me a message on
telegram (@satdeep) or via email (sgill(a)wikimedia.org) to add your email
address to the calendar invite.
Maryana is hoping to learn more about the Wikisource community and the
project at this event and it would be really nice if you can share your
answers to the following questions:
- What motivates you to contribute to Wikisource?
- What makes the Wikisource community special?
- What are the major challenges facing the movement going forward?
- What are your questions to Maryana?
You can share your responses during the live event but in case the date and
the time doesn't work for you, you can share your responses on the event
page on Wikisource
<https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Eighteenth_Birthday> or in case you
would like to remain anonymous, you can share your responses directly with
me.
Also, feel free to reach out to me in case you would like to give a short
presentation about your and your community's work at the beginning of the
session.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
Best
Satdeep
--
Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
I know this is a little like reply-all-ing, but I can’t figure out to create an account— all IP addresses available to me are blocked, including IP address of my home service without a VPN. Can anyone help me sign up.
Thanks,
cmo
Greetings All,
We are happy to announce that the CIS-A2K team have been initiated to
develop the Wikisource Android apps for Wikisource reader. Over the last
couple of months, a group of devs from the Tamil language community have
been putting together an Android Wikisource App for us. They have been
finished their POC of the app. In the coming month, we will engage some
developers to develop iOS apps for the same. We think it's finally gotten
to a good state for people to start hacking on it.
For those just wanting to get started here are the links Initial code:
https://github.com/ViluppuramGLUG/WikisourceApp feature ideas landing page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Apps How can you help?
In the coming month, we may help to do the following ... * Fork the code
and help us with open bug requests * Critique the code and suggest a
cleanup * Start to hack on new features UI. * Localization for the user
interface
Also, you may comment/suggest/feedback our meta talk page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikisource_Apps
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Program Officer ( Wikisource )
CIS-A2K
FYI
------ Forwarded Message ------
From: "Wikipedia Library Card Platform"
<noreply(a)wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org>
To: billinghurstwiki(a)gmail.com
Sent: 8/10/2021 4:31:09 AM
Subject: The Wikipedia Library: Search feature now available!
Hi,
The Wikipedia Library team is excited to announce that a centralized
search tool is now available to all users eligible to use the library!
Instead of needing to search across individual collections one-by-one,
you’ll now be able to search content from across a wide range of
collections from one search bar. This search tool uses the EBSCO
Discovery Service software and contains a wide array of filtering and
advanced search options.
To check which collections are indexed, we’ve also added icons and
filters to My Library. Search pulls content from almost all of the
collections which are accessible by default for eligible users (the
Library Bundle). This means you can search with the confidence that
every result will be accessible to you. In the future, we plan to enable
users to turn off this limit, so that you could also search across
collections which require individual applications, but we can’t
guarantee that you’ll be able to access all results in this mode, as
this depends on your individual authorizations.
To check out the search tool just head over to
https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/, log in, and you’ll find the
search bar at the top of your screen.
We hope you find this feature useful, and would love to hear your
feedback at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Library_Card_platform/Search.
Finally, as a reminder, we’re planning to start rolling out an on-wiki
notification to editors who are eligible to use the library in the near
future. Users will only receive the notification once. Please check
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&group=ext…
to see if you can help translate the notification text!
Thanks,
The Wikipedia Library team
wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org
Hello all,
After the first two editions in 2017
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017> and 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019>, the WikidataCon
is taking place again from 29 October to 31 October 2021, but this time it
will be an online event. You can find the details in the event page here -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021
The call for proposals to present a session on the second and third day of
the conference is now open until 20 October 2021 (midnight anywhere on
earth). You are welcome to submit a session in this link -
https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/beTaVM/info/
The program will have tracks like Sister Project, GLAM, Reimaging Wikidata,
Tips and Tools which can very well accommodate the Wikisource-Wikidata
integration and other related works.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of WikidataCon 2021)
Hello everyone!
Thank you so much for your participation in the Wikisource Satisfaction
Survey 2021. The survey was conducted in *6 languages* and got *69
responses* from Wikisource contributors from *over 12 different language
communities*.
I am happy to share the final results of the survey along with feedback
from some of the respondents:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Satisfaction_Survey_2021
Feel free to reach out to me or write on the talk page if you have any
questions or any other feedback.
Best
Satdeep
--
Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>