Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, and bibliophiles,
I hope you are doing alright, staying healthy and gearing up for the
upcoming festive season. I am excited to share that we are bringing you
another iteration of the 1Lib1Ref <https://1lib1ref.org/> as we celebrate
21 years of Wikipedia next month.
As always, participation is pretty simple. All you need to do is add more
references to Wikipedia articles and type #1lib1ref in the Edit Summary.
We are bringing you some exciting updates. For instance, seven more
languages from the CEE region are now supported by the CitationHunt tool
<https://citationhunt.toolforge.org/>. Thanks to the amazing volunteer
efforts of Guilherme Gonçalves <https://github.com/eggpi> and Gorana Gomirac
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gorana_Gomirac_(VMRS)>.
If you are already familiar with editing Wikipedia and would like to
experiment a bit, we are piloting a couple of contribution methods for
advanced contributors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#…>
in the January 2022 round.
Read more about the campaign at the blog post on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/16/1lib1ref-is-back-in-2022-with-more-la…>
.
See you all on 15th January 2022!
Regards
Satdeep
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,
As you might know, the Two Centuries of Indian Print (2CIP) project of
British Library and West Bengal Wikimedians User Group are having a GLAM
partnership for almost a year now. The 2CIP collection of public domain
Bengali books are getting uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and then getting
proofread on Bengali Wikisource. Details can be found here -
https://bn.wikisource.org/s/h1zc
In this regard. two long proofread contests had been organized this year to
let Bengali Wikisource volunteers focus on these books. The first contest
was held during March-April this year. (Link -
https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gwek ) The second proofread contest which ran
for 3 months from September 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021 just ended at
midnight. (Link - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gwen .) In these two
contests, around 5500 pages were proofread in total.
We will not conduct any more proofread contests this year or early next
year giving break to our competition participants. Considering our small
workforce, we will also utilise this break to clear our maintenance
backlogs as much as possible. The GLAM partnership will go on by having
more 2CIP books uploaded on Commons, engaging with OpenRefine team to help
build a robust system for book uploads along with metadata management,
engaging with WMF community programs and machine learning teams to find
ways to negotiate with Transkribus etc. and so on. A full activity report
will be published soon in February next year by the user group.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)
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
--
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
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