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From: Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:38 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] seeking help with Hindi projects in Wikisource...
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
Can anyone here refer me to someone who is active in making
Hindi-language contributions to Wikisource? I wish to meet someone
with experience in that language and project. Otherwise, can anyone
suggest to me which Indic languages in Wikisource seem to be most
active?
Is anyone able to make a recommendation for any OCR software for
converting scanned Hindi language documents to digital text? Does
anyone know anything about in-Wikisource support for OCR in Hindi
language? Does it exist? Is there documentation?
Thanks for anything anyone can share.
yours,
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Lane Rasberry
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John Vandenberg
Dear all,
I have a vacancy in my group which should be especially of interest for
people who are into Wikisource and/or Wikidata.
We are looking for a Wikipedian in Residence for a duration of up to
three years.
The Job is part of a new project "NOA - The replication of open access
images: development of a method for automatic harvesting, indexing and
provision of open access images from technical subjects using the
infrastructure of Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata".
You will play a leading role in the conceptual design of harvesting Open
Access articles issued by various publishers.
Have a look at the full English job description here:
https://www.tib.eu/en/tib/careers-and-apprenticeships/vacancies/details/
stellenausschreibung-nr-372016/
Please note that applications should be send before 12th August 2016!
For any questions about the project and the job, please contact me. I'm
looking forward to all questions and applications!
Best,
Lambert
Lambert Heller
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
German National Library of Science and Technology
Open Science Lab
Welfengarten 1 B // 30167 Hannover, Germany
T +49 511 762-5348
lambert.heller(a)tib.eu
www.tib.eu <http://www.tib.eu/>
Hi everyone.
Thanks to Samwilson, we have know a pre-alpha tool that help us retrieve
metadata for books in Wikisource:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-search/?title=%25&author=&lang=it&output_forma…
it's in very early stage so please be kind and generous: (and also, if you
can, help :-)
The tool will hopefully help each community in deal with Wikidata import.
BUT:
today a discovered, with a bit of horror, that more than one year ago a
"rogue" wikidata editor imported thousands of pages (without properties!)
from Wikisources without even noticing the communities...
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#wikisource_mass_importhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#Stop_creating_items
I revived the last thread (second link) because I think this was not
helpful to us as communities. I don't think we can't fix it (there is also
the chance that he kind of helped us, if we now use the right tools): but,
still, I wanted to express my frustration in seeing this kind of action.
I wonder how the French Wikisource community solved it, for example.
Andrea
Hi,
Here is the final program schedule of upcoming WikiConference India 2016.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Programs
There is a track for Wikisource on 6th August, where 5 Wikisourcers from 3
Indic communities will have their presentations and conduct workshops.
Regards,
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Bodhisattwa
TL;DR: VisualEditor is going to be enabled to Page: pages today Wednesday. It's still very buggy, use at our own risks.
Hello everyone,
Just an email to warn you that an early version of the Page: pages support for the VisualEditor is going to be deployed on todayWednesday, 29 June. It still contains a lot of bugs that should be fixed in the following weeks.
Some known issues:
- The switching from Wikitext editor to VisualEditor is still buggy (only content of the page body is kept and set into the header in the VE interface).
- On loading of page which latest modification is before tomorrow Wednesday there are artefacts on saving. We have made a change in the Parsoid parser to make VisualEditor work but we have not been able to purge the Parsoid cache. It leads to artefact added to the wikitext on saving and usually to the merge of the footer in the body.
- When HTML is not balanced in each section (header/body/footer) e.g. when you have "<div style="color:blue;">" in the header and "</div>" in the footer, the VisualEditor breaks the page (usually you get "<div style="color:blue;"></div>" in the header and nothing in the footer). This issue won't be fixed anytime soon but we plan to provide efficient ways to do styling on the Page: pages body (and probably also on the Header/Footer).
- The loading of VisualEditor with ?veaction=edit in the UI often fails (code review in progress)
- When creating a new page the text layer included in the PDF/DjVu file is not loaded (code review in progress)
- The proofreading quality selector is not very understandable and should be redesigned.
Please report any other issue on Phabricator [1] with as projects both "ProofreadPage" and "VisualEditor"
Thomas
PS: feel free to copy/past this email in your local Scriptorium.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org
Hi from Wikimania everyone! Wikisource hacking is carrying on apace here.
I just thought I'd mention after this morning's session that (thanks to
Bodhisattwa Mandal) the Bengali Wikisource is now listed in the
Wikisource category browser tool:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-cat-browser/?lang=bn
On which topic, there are quite a few category loops in some languages,
such as this:
[0] => Vita_di_Omero - Categoria:Biografie
[1] => Vita_di_Omero - Categoria:Letteratura
[2] => Vita_di_Omero - Categoria:Letteratura-V
[3] => Categoria:Letteratura-V -
Categoria:Opere_letterarie_in_ordine_alfabetico
[4] => Categoria:Opere_letterarie_in_ordine_alfabetico -
Categoria:Letteratura
[5] => Categoria:Opere_letterarie_in_ordine_alfabetico -
Categoria:Testi_delle_arti_in_ordine_alfabetico
[6] => Categoria:Testi_delle_arti_in_ordine_alfabetico -
Categoria:Testi_delle_arti
[7] => Categoria:Testi_delle_arti - Categoria:Arti
[8] => Categoria:Testi_delle_arti -
Categoria:Categoria:Testi_delle_arti
[9] => Categoria:Categoria:Testi_delle_arti - Categoria:Arti
[10] => Categoria:Categoria:Testi_delle_arti -
Categoria:Categoria:Testi_delle_arti
(Just saying...)
:-)