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Indic Wikisource IRC 2018
by Jayanta Nath 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

Dear All, Firstly I would like to thank you for the continuous support and contribution to the Wikimedia movement. You are aware that after implemented Google OCR into Indic Wikisource, they grew rapidly, reaching a total of 50,000+ pages proofreaded in 11 Indic Wikisource languages. For updated page/ digitised content you go here <https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats>[2] But Indic community members have not got any chance to meet each other and share best practices of their community. Keeping this in mind we are planning to have an IRC[1] on 1st September 2018 (@8:00 PM) for the Indic Wikisource community. Please suggest more Agenda for the IRC in Google Doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T9qUpNfx6wY06mVQ8XqXox26PP34eEPyswz8qP…> [3] [1]. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k [2]. *https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats <https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats>* [3]. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T9qUpNfx6wY06mVQ8XqXox26PP34eEPyswz8qP… Thanks and Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Wikisource Project advisor Access to Knowledge program The Centre for Internet & Society

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Coordinating documentation, practices and solutions
by mathieu lovato stumpf guntz 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Following a discussion with Bodhisattwa I just created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201286 "Coordinating documentation, practices and solutions" please bring your feedback on the ticket if you are interested. 🙏

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Telegram group for Wikisource
by Sam Wilson 29 Jul '18

29 Jul '18

There's a new Telegram group: tg://join?invite=FeIIHRKgyed-ODRYi0JzoQ Currently got 50 of us in it. Just thought I'd spread the word here. I know Telegram isn't super great for various reasons and some people can't use it, but it seems to be growingly popular in the Wikimedia universe.

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EAP books
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

Hi, During Wikimania hackathon, User:Pmlineditor created two python scripts for British Library Endangered Archives Program books upon request from Bengali WIkisource community One of the script is to mass download the books, the other script is to selectively download and directly upload the books to Commons. The scripts are in github - https://github.com/prachatos/eap2pdf Thanks, Bodhisattwa

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Nelson Mandela's Trial diary
by Asaf Bartov 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Hello, Wikisourcerors! Just in time for Mandela's centenary and Wikimania in Cape Town, South Africa, we have just made available for transcription on Wikisource Mandela's handwritten diary from the [[Rivonia Trial]] [1], which led to Mandela's long imprisonment. The diary was contributed by the Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg. Come lend a hand: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Travel_diary_from_the_Rivonia_Trial_(S… Cheers, A. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial

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Fwd: New GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage role at the Wikimedia Foundation
by Alex Stinson 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Hi all, This job is very relevant to organizers and community members on the African and Indian lists, and the WikiSource community. Do try to share the listing with folks you think would be interested. Cheers, Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:00 PM Subject: New GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage role at the Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination < cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" < glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American Cultural Partnerships < glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia & Libraries < libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi All, I am really excited to share with you the opening of a new job working within the Programs Team at the Wikimedia Foundation: a Program Officer focused on GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage. As part of orienting our team to better support the Wikimedia Movement direction, we hope this role can help us to better support tactics and strategies that are becoming important among emerging communities wanting to get involved in GLAM programs -- including, for example, leveraging digitization, WikiSource and Wiki Loves type events to document marginalized knowledge. They will be working closely with our existing GLAM team, including Alex Stinson and Sandra Fauconnier, to document and expand the impact of GLAM partnership in the movement, and to help us advance the larger Equity and Infrastructure goals of the movement direction. We also hope that this role helps our team build increased depth of experience with Wikimedia communities outside of North America and Europe, where existing GLAM communities have a strong community of practice and from which Sandra and Alex (and Ben, the Programs team director) have deep backgrounds. If you know someone who is enthusiastic about or has deep experience facilitating GLAM-Wiki or similar community initiatives, please share the job announcement with them: https://boards.greenhouse.io/ wikimedia/jobs/1236692 Cheers, Alex -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

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Wikisource meetup in Wikimania
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hi all, Any plan for Wikisource meetup during Wikimania this year? -- Bodhisattwa

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Google OCR button to override language?
by Sam Wilson 04 Jul '18

04 Jul '18

Just wondering if anyone else has an opinion on this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198040 It might even be nice to extend the OCR gadget to be able to be used for single-image transcriptions on Commons. —Sam

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Re: [Wikisource-l] wscontest tool
by ankry.wiki 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Maybe a bit OT, but did anybody consider to analyze how many corrections / how much content a user changes his/her edits? As we (in pl.ws) focus on text quality, it would be appreciated to score higher the edits with corrections than edits with no correction ("no errors found"). I understand that it is hard to create such tool, especially if automatic corrections (eg. <br /> -> <br> or template parameter reorganization should be ignored), but maybe, somebody has an idea how to to do this? Ankry PS. We do not participate in this contest in its current form because some of our users are afraid that this will lower the text quality (users might prefer just to update the status without careful checking the content, just declaring that "no errors found"; and it is hard to identify such users/edits). W dniu 2018-06-22 09:29:45 użytkownik Rachmat W. <rachmatwahidi.site(a)gmail.com> napisał: Thank you, Sam! We would like to utilize this tool in the Wikisource contest later. :) Kind regards, Rachmat On Jun 22, 2018, 07:08 +0700, Sam Wilson <sam(a)samwilson.id.au>, wrote: Hi all, After chatting with User:CristianCantoro at the Barcelona hackathon, I had a crack at a web frontend for the wscontest tool. It is now online at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wscontest/ It's not quite done, there's a bunch of things to be fixed, but is functioning to some extent. I've started a list of its issues at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/tool-wscontest/ --sam _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

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wscontest tool
by Sam Wilson 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Hi all, After chatting with User:CristianCantoro at the Barcelona hackathon, I had a crack at a web frontend for the wscontest tool. It is now online at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wscontest/ It's not quite done, there's a bunch of things to be fixed, but is functioning to some extent. I've started a list of its issues at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/tool-wscontest/ --sam

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