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Wikisource Conference Program
by Andrea Zanni 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Hi everyone. The conference is close! We need to confirm the Friday Program, as we are closing the schedule: people who said they where doing a presentation or a workshop need to state how much time they need, so we can have a real schedule for the day. So, please, edit this page adding the details here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_… We will then format that. Thank you. If you need me, I'm available for a skype call anytime, at "aubreymcfato". Andrea

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Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

Still a couple days available to offer yourself as Wikimania scholarships committee member, or as ambassador for your community. -------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [Wikimania-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee Data: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 21:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Dear Wikimaniacs, we are now calling for a scholarship review committee. This year, we additionally want a scholarship ambassador for each major geography or language, including a representative from each entity which pays for additional scholarships; the ambassadors will be committee observers. The scholarship review committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers who help to run the scholarship program in accordance with the pillars <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario/Pillars> of this Wikimania. We encourage people from all Wikimedia wikis to apply for this position so that the committee can handle applications in many different languages. The main duties of the committee members prior to Wikimania 2016 are: * Participation in periodic online meetings with scholarships program manager and other committee members. * Review and edit communications material (e.g. Scholarship wiki, application questions). * Assistance in determination of scholarship applicant requirements. * Assurance of due consideration and speedy response time to Wikimania scholarship applications in multiple languages. * Work with the local team. For further information please visit m:Wikimania/Scholarships/Tasks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Scholarships/Tasks> (the committee will also be polishing this page). We are looking for Wikimedians from all over the world, who are: * fluent in written English and have good communication skills, or can name local community member(s)/ambassadors who help them with English translations. * discreet and able to handle confidential applicant information, and objectively assess candidates. * willing to review scholarship applications in late 2015/early 2016. * having either or both: o previously attended Wikimania. o strong knowledge of the cross-project Wikimedia community. You will be working remotely. While we hope that scholarship review committee members will enjoy Wikimania 2016 by giving significant input to it, the local team cannot guarantee financial support for the committee members' travel expenses since scholarship review committee members may not apply for a scholarship themselves. If you're interested in serving on the scholarship reviewing committee and/or as scholarship ambassador, *please send us an email at domande.wikimania(a)wikimedia.it*. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Deadline to apply is *Sunday, November 15, 2015*. The local team will contact all candidates and publish the list of scholarship committee members right afterwards. Please help with translations on wm2016:Scholarship committee <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee>. Proposed timeline * Nov 1–Nov 15: Call for Scholarship Committee * Nov 16–Dec 6: Preparations of the Scholarship Committee * Dec 6–Jan 9: Submission time Thanks, Federico Leva <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nemo_bis> and Martin Rulsch <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DerHexer> Wikimania 2016 team, scholarships subteam

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Technical wishlist
by Andrea Zanni 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

We should participate :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-11-04/Op-ed Aubrey

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Bengali OCR for Proofread Page
by Jayanta Nath 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

A new version of Bengali Train data released just 4 month before. Could any one update for Bengali Wikisource? Regards, Jayantanth https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/blob/master/ben.traineddata

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Import 80mb+ file size to commons through ia-upload
by Jayanta Nath 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

Hi all, How do I import 80mb+ file size to commons through ia-upload? During import , the tool got error gar-beg, Can anyone try to import https://archive.org/details/UpendraKishoreRachanaSamagra to common through ia-upload? Regards, Jayanatanth BNWS

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FineReader 11 on Internet Archive
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

Today I rehearsed ScanTailor and unpaper to upload a rare book from WWI: https://archive.org/details/lettere-ferrovieri-patria I noticed the OCR is now "ABBYY FineReader 11"; IA only recently switched to 9 after many years on 8, this seems good news. If I see correctly, 11 claims: New and improved language support New OCR languages: Turkmen (Latin) and Old Slavonic New ICR languages: Danish, Norwegian (Bokmal & Nynorsk), Old English, Serbian (Cyrillic), Tajik Latin language has full dictionary support Improved OCR for Chinese, Japanese & Korean 10 claims: Improved Language Support Chinese Korean Japanese It seems IA technology is evolving rather fast: https://blog.archive.org/2015/10/21/grant-to-develop-the-next-generation-wa… https://blog.archive.org/2015/10/23/zoom-in-to-9-3-million-internet-archive… Nemo

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Wikimedia Digitization User Group
by Luiz Augusto 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

FYI, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Digitization_User_Group

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Wikisource Conference Program
by Andrea Zanni 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

Hi everyone, as you know in a month there'll be the Wikisource Conference in Wien, I hope many of you will participate. The organizing team discussed with the WMF about the program and we came up with a very simple schedule. We wanted to have *very few goals*, so it's easier to achieve them. * Friday for GLAMs/workshops/hackathon: Friday, as the first day, will be the warming up. Several people signed for making a presentation [1], or for hosting a workshop. We think it would be a good day for talking, learning, coding, whatever you feel like. Presentations are good for beginners, as are workshops. We feel that as a small community we can auto-organize and not be facilitated that day. There is the possibility of visiting an archive in Wien, but that would be just after lunch and would break the sessions. We can think of making the trip a fringe event on Thursday afternoon for those who arrive early... What do you think? We would really like to know your opinion on this. * Saturday is the main day, for the discussion on "Wikisource identity and future". It's a very important moment, possibly crucial as a international community. We would be most likely facilitated by a professional, as we'd have the goal of writing a Wikisource "manifesto". The goal of this is simple: gain a clean picture of what Wikisource is and what we want it to be, with a roadmap. This document would be then the start for a conversation with the WMF about the future of Wikisource. Many people could be "intimidated" by a discussion like this :-), and so there would be the possibility of having a parallel session on the relationship between Wikisource and Wikidata, that is the important issue to tackle. Both these sessions would be wrapped up on Sunday morning. Again, we would like your feedback on this: as you see, the conference is pretty simple, having few (but big!) topics, and we have few goals but we must succeed in achieving them. The very conference is a pilot, and if we fail we may not be given another chance. Please tell us what you think. Aubrey [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/Wikisource_…

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Watermark on Google scan.
by Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hello everybody. I have a question about watermark removal on Wikisource. If I removal claims copyright page and watermark of Google in the Google-scanned books under this guidance < https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:DjVu_files#Removing_a_copyright_page>, then legal or not? Because per statement of Google, the Google-scanned books must be preserved such pages and watermark copyright. This guidance about removal watermark mainly based on case law Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. (see also < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-scan_tag#USA>), which (follow Wikipedia < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp.#Subseque…>) is in controversial: *"We are not convinced that the single case to which we are pointed where copyright was awarded for a “slavish copy” remains good law." The appeals court ruling cited and followed the **United States Supreme Court <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court> decision in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service>** (1991), explicitly rejecting difficulty of labor or expense as a consideration in copyrightability..."* Suppose that in future Google litigation Wikipedia for removing the page of Google claiming copyright in the Google-scanned books and that case was heard by the appeals court or the US Supreme Court (higher competent than Southern New York Court) and the court reverse ruling, then what should we do? Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy Supporter, Wikimedia Projects

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Large uploads to Wikisource
by Arne Wossink 15 Oct '15

15 Oct '15

Hi all, Wikimedia Nederland has recently approached by several institutions that would like to do uploads of source material. Wikisource would be the preferred platform for this as the material would be searchable (which it wouldn't be if it was only uploaded as pdf to Commons). I would like to know if there have been previous projects involving large uploads by institutions, and if there's any documentation on how to proceed with these. Thanks! Arne Wossink Projectleider / Project Lead Wikimedia Nederland Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505 *Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht

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