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Community Tech new hire
by Sam Wilson 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Hi all, I've recently started working on the Community Tech team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech at the Wikimedia Foundation. So I just wanted to say hi and that I'm really excited to be able to work on Wikimedia code full-time! :-) Community Tech is all about helping build tools that support contributors, and basically takes its work-list from the annual Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results For the last couple of weeks I've been working on a tool to bring better OCR to indic-language Wikisources, via Google's Cloud Vision API: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR I'm not at all exclusively working on Wiksource stuff of course, not by a long shot. But that's still where my personal interest lies, and so if anyone's got any ideas about future software development that we need then I'm keen to help if I can. And this year's Wishlist Survey will be happening before too long, so get ready to list stuff there! Lastly, please be gentle with me as I try to figure out how to shift to life not-as-a-volunteer! (Although I'm still a volunteer too.) I'm trying very hard to be transparent and professional and not blur the various roles.... gets confusing though! :-) Thanks, Sam. -- [[User:Samwilson]] [[User:SWilson (WMF)]]

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Please import your best templates and scripts into mul.source and la.source
by Alex Brollo 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

I guess that both into larger and into smaller wikisource projects there are plentiful of clever templates, modules and javascript tools, developed by users for practical goals. Please take a little bit of time and import them into mul.source and la.source - the latter being something like a second "multi-language wikisource". IMHO we need to share our best ideas and tricks, and both mul,source and la.source could be good showcases for them. Alex brollo

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Tools for organizing a Wikisource Anniversary Proofreading Contest (WAPC) in your local Wikisource
by Cristian Consonni 22 Sep '16

22 Sep '16

Hi all, together with Andrea (User:Aubrey), Bodhisattwa (User:Bodhisattwa) and Jayanta (User:Jayantanth) we have put together a page about the "Wikisource Anniversary Proofreading Contest" (WAPC). If I recall correctly, the first WAPC was organised for the first time 3 years ago in November in occasion of the 10th anniversary of Wikisource. You can find more info about WAPCs on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_anniversary_proofreading_contest there you can find some tips on how to run a WAPC in your local Wikisource. We have also put together a set of tools on GitHub - under the umbrella of a new "organisation" called `wscontest` - here they are: https://github.com/wscontest/ you can find the repos for some tools * the votecounter script, to count the points for each contestant; * the ranking script, to designate the winner (who has the most points) and to draw the second and third-place winners; These tools are also available on Tool Labs under the `wscontest`: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wscontest/ The documentation, at least for the votecounter script, is quite extensive and I think that with this tools it would be possible to run a contest in your local Wikisource, provided that you find someone with Tool Labs access which can help with running the scripts. However, it would be very nice if we could write a nice front-end for everything so that organizing a contest. counting votes, and establishing the winner, so that it becomes easy and can be done by any community without technical support. Basically, we would need to design and code some front-end: * a page where you create a contest and upload a book list and define the parameters of the contest: starting and ending date, how points are awarded, etc.; * a page where you launch the votecount script and collect the results; * a page where you launch the ranking script and get the winners posted on Wikisource; It would also be very nice if we could add some authentication with Wikimedia/Wikisource credentials. I would like to see if we can gather some interest and help for coding this idea. Alas, I have little time myself to code what is needed, but Jayanta can also help and we already have a small team. You can also put your name on meta here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_anniversary_proofreading_contest… Ciao, C

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Event: demo of the OCR tool for Indic languages
by Sam Wilson 22 Sep '16

22 Sep '16

Hi all, Wikisource will be getting some visibility to the rest of the MediaWiki/Wikimedia community: Coming event: Wikisource OCR demo The *OCR tool for Indic language Wikisources*[1] will be demonstrated by Kaldari at the next MediaWiki CREDIT showcase[2] on Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 18:00 UTC[3]. The session will be broadcast on Youtube (link TBA) and live discussion will take place on Etherpad[4] (side- channel discussion will be in #wikimedia-office on IRC). Thanks, Sam Links: 1. https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase 3. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=MediaWiki+CREDIT+s… 4. https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT

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Re: [Wikisource-l] Community Tech new hire
by Sam Wilson 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

I am very grateful to Aubrey!! :-) Although, Aubrey, I think you have the wrong word there! ;-) Surely I must not "pretend" but to actually and properly seek feedback?! ;-) Which indeed, we shall all do I think. So, how best to do that? Wikisource communities are small, but I think we're actually more united in some ways than in other projects. But I still think there's a fair bit of dispersion of conversations — I think most people know about their local Scriptorium (or Bar, Cafe, Warung kopi, or Тековни настани as the case may be), but there are lots of contributors who aren't on this mailing list, or don't know about Phabricator, or don't use IRC. This issue is pertinent: T144074 Improve the representation of Wikimedia communities beyond English Wikipedia in the Community Wishlist Survey 2016[1] So, anyway, thank you everyone for your welcomes. I just hope I can live up to it all. :-) Thanks, Sam. On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, at 09:03 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > This is *fantastic* news! > I'm really happy for Sam and I think this will bring a lot of good > things for our community. > > Of course I don't want to take any credit, but I think it's important > to remember that: > * I talked with Ryan Kaldari and Danny Horn (of Community Tech) a lot > in Berlin. Johann (also CT) was in Wien e we all met him: > * they told me they were in need of another person in the team, and > would have liked a Wikisource person too > * they were very impressed by the response that came from Wikisource > community during the Community Survey > > In the end, all this advocacy and commitment from the community (plus > the crucial fact that Sam is awesome) paid off: I think we should all > be proud of this. > > Having a person like Sam inside the WMF is special and crucial. > He will not of course work just for Wikisource, but we have a real > chance, as a community, to have a fruitful and rich conversation and > communication between the community and the team, and we must not > waste that. > > Sam ***must pretend*** a thorough feedback from us as a community, > when he works on Wikisource stuff. > We can collaborate to put our requests and feedbacks in the right > places, and make sure that crucial problems are heard by the "top". > So, it's a lot of work from us :-) > We really need to to waste this opportunity. > > Aubrey > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Sam Wilson > <sam(a)samwilson.id.au> wrote: >> Yes, I hope so too!! :-) >> >> Maybe we should create a column on the Wikisource board on which >> to put >> wishlist items? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1117/ >> >> >> Oh, and for anyone who missed it, there's a great interview with tpt >> here: >> https://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/09/08/i-dont-have-to-find-tasks-tasks-are-co… >> >> >> >> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016, at 03:22 PM, Thomas Tanon wrote: >> > Hello Sam, >> > >> > Congratulations! That's amazing! I really hope you will be able to >> > keep >> > making the Wikisource tech backlog lower [1]. >> > >> > Congrats again, >> > >> > Thomas >> > >> > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikisource/ >> > >> > >> > > Le 16 sept. 2016 à 05:23, Sam Wilson <sam(a)samwilson.id.au> a >> > > écrit : >> > > >> > > Hi all, >> > > >> > > I've recently started working on the Community Tech team >> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech at the Wikimedia >> > > Foundation. So I just wanted to say hi and that I'm really >> > > excited to be >> > > able to work on Wikimedia code full-time! :-) >> > > >> > > Community Tech is all about helping build tools that support >> > > contributors, and basically takes its work-list from the annual >> > > Community Wishlist Survey: >> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results >> > > >> > > For the last couple of weeks I've been working on a tool to >> > > bring better >> > > OCR to indic-language Wikisources, via Google's Cloud Vision >> > > API: >> > > https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR >> > > >> > > I'm not at all exclusively working on Wiksource stuff of course, >> > > not by >> > > a long shot. But that's still where my personal interest lies, >> > > and so if >> > > anyone's got any ideas about future software development that we >> > > need >> > > then I'm keen to help if I can. And this year's Wishlist Survey >> > > will be >> > > happening before too long, so get ready to list stuff there! >> > > >> > > Lastly, please be gentle with me as I try to figure out how to >> > > shift to >> > > life not-as-a-volunteer! (Although I'm still a volunteer too.) >> > > I'm >> > > trying very hard to be transparent and professional and not blur >> > > the >> > > various roles.... gets confusing though! :-) >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Sam. >> > > >> > > -- >> > > [[User:Samwilson]] >> > > [[User:SWilson (WMF)]] >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Wikisource-l mailing list >> > > Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikisource-l mailing list >> > Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> > Email had 1 attachment: >> > + signature.asc >> > 1k (application/pgp-signature) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > _________________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l Links: 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144074

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Indic Wikisource Update September 2016
by Jayanta Nath 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Hello all, We've just published the September 2016 Indic Wikisource statistics. After implementing Google OCR script to our all Indic Wikisource , they are growing rapidly. Here is the few stats... As per Number of article 1. Sanskrit Wikisourece ( 14606 pages) - supported by 0.05% scan pages. 2. Telugu Wikisource ( 11707 pages) - supported by 24.3% scan pages. 3. Kannada Wikisource ( 7452 pages) - supported by 1.05% scan pages. As per Number of page Validation 1. Telugu Wikisource ( 17783 pages) 2. Tamil Wikisource ( 4928 pages) 3. Bengali Wikisource ( 1591 pages) As per Number of page Proofread 1. Telugu Wikisource ( 19378 pages) 2. Malayalam Wikisource ( 7962 pages) 3. Tamil Wikisource ( 6462 pages) As per percentage supported by scan pages. 1. Telugu Wikisource ( 24.3%) 2. Bengali Wikisource (20.12%) 3. Malayalam Wikisource (10.93%) Full Indic Wikisource stats here https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats Regards, Jayanta Nath Indic Wikisource Community

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Books and Wikidata, part 1
by Andrea Zanni 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

After long discussions, me and Chiara Storti reviewed the "Pride and Prejudice" item and some of it's related items. We then wrote this *long* message here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Books#Wikiproject_B… It's the first attempt to find a solution for Wikidata and books, especially regarding Wikisource. It's not complete but it's a start. I encourage you to take your time to read it. As Sam Wilson is working on Ws-search, we could start populating some items with the right statements. Aubrey

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Parallel text, DoubleWiki
by Lars Aronsson 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

If you look at this chapter of a novel in the French language, https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Voyageur_enchanté/Chapitre_1 ...it has a link to the corresponding chapter in Russian and next to the word "Русский" is a little arrow ⇔ or <=> If you click that arrow, you get the two texts placed side-by-side, https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Voyageur_enchanté/Chapitre_1?match=ru But there is no further matching. Paragraphs are not next to each other. If I understand correctly, this is the "Double Wiki" extension, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DoubleWiki https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:DoubleWiki_Extension Is anybody using this feature in a serious way? Does it have any more details that can make the matching better? If both texts had numbered paragraphs and sentences (something like the Bible), it would in theory be possible to match them by number. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Linköping

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Good news about CropTool
by Alex Brollo 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

CropTool now can crop & uoload into Commons illustrations from djvu and pdf files. We are testing the tool at it.wikisource and we all agree that it is now a surprisingly useful tool for daily wikisource work. Please test it and give some feedback and some more suggestions to its author, Danmichaelo (*thanks Dan!*) The local gadget to call the tool from Commons:: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-CropTool.js should be implemented into wikisource projects with some changes; see it.source version: https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-CropTool.js as an example. Alex brollo

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Tool required
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Hi all, We are planning for a proofreading contest in Bengali Wikisource. In this regard, we are looking for a tool to track proofreading counts by editors within a given period of time. Any suggestions? Regards, -- Bodhisattwa

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