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Creating an OPDS feed for Wikisource (was Re: [KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline)
by Luiz Augusto 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org> wrote: > [...] > > We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free books > libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add, this might > be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available. > > How we can develop an OPDS feed for Wikisource? Maybe this is the big chance to us start to ignore some misunderstandings that we've inherited from Wikipedia ("local communities autonomy") and remember that in the Libraries world standardization of practices is a big plus? I mean specially on ways to deliver to users contents by subject or author despite it's language of production...

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[KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline
by Emmanuel Engelhart 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Hi, The Kiwix team is happy to release the whole Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) library in a ZIM format: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11.zim.torre…. We also provide a few language specific versions here http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg. This file is dedicated to an offline usage (no connection to Internet) and it readable with Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org). This allows anybody with a computer or a smartphone to own his own copy of this 50.000 books big library. You can also make it available for read to other people on your network, they only need a web browser. In this ZIM file, you will find all the books available in HTML (directly readable), but also in EPUB (and time to time in PDF). We have created a custom user interface which is really simple to use: in a few clicks you can find your book, read it or download it. What is also unique is that Kiwix proposes a fulltext search engine over all books content. You can see by yourself using this demonstration web site: http://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/ Most of the work was done during a week long hackathon in Lyon, France by four Kiwix volunteer developers. This hackathon was funded by the Fondation Orange with the administrative help of Framasoft and Wikimedia CH. The Fondation Orange is the first beneficiary of this work and use it already for its own deployments in Africa. The solution to build this ZIM file is 100% free software and is available here https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg. This solution allows to release easily new up2date versions. This is not a "one shot" project and we will release periodically new version of this offline version of the Project Gutenberg. We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free books libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add, this might be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available. We hope to see this work deployed by other third part organisation which are on place where Internet is not available, expensive or censored. We also need more developer (mostly Python) workforce for the next steps, a hackathon with this purpose will hopefully be organised in 2015 (sponsor needed). Last but not least: users, please report any problem here: https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg/issues Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

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Wikisource 11th Anniversary Contest
by Andrea Zanni 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hello guys, are you preparing for the contest? Can we use this mailing list to coordinate and understand how many contests will be there? It would be nice if we could coordinate, or at least use shared scripts and tools. Maybe it's better to have an overview of what is needed to run the contest. WHAT DO YOU NEED * a collection of books to be proofread this is really easy :-) * a Wikisource contest page like this one: https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Undicesimo_compleanno_di_Wikisour… * some social media coverage you can use social media etc., we always try to convince the it.wikipedia to use their SiteNotice... Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource sitenotice. * some awards if you have a national Wikimedia chapter, it's good to ask for few bucks. In Italy, we awarded 3 prizes with just 100 euros (50 euros worth book voucher as a 1st prize, 30 and 20 for 2nd and 3rd). * a way to count validated and proofread pages. If I'm not mistaken, the code is here: http://pastebin.com/Vk6ikCUg WHAT YOU NEED TO DECIDE * time In Italy, we wanted to go from 24 November at 00.01 till 1st December at 23.59. * scoring In it.source, we will probably award 3 points for every proofread page and 1 point for every validated page. * awards Last year, it.source only allowed to validate pages (and not to proofread). We awarded the first prize to the "user who validated more pages". The second and the third prizes instead were randomly extracted from the others: but the more pages a user validated, the more chances he had. Every validated page (or point) counts as a lottery ticket: the more I have, the more chances too. Cristian Cantoro made also this awesome tool to pick the 3 winners, we should adapt it for every contest: http://balist.es/wscontest/ I believe everything can be easily adapted if you both allow to proofread and validate at the same time I really hope many Wikisources will be present this year :-) Aubrey

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How to retrieve text layer from a djvu page by API
by Alex Brollo 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I'd like to get text layer of a djvu page, just as proofread extension does, by an API call or any exotic trick, in different settings from the usual trigger condition (the creation of a new page). Is this possible? I browsed API doc but I failed. Alex brollo

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Epub download
by Andrea Zanni 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Dear all, on 26 October I made a little test on the Italian Wikisource. I've always been an enthusiast about the WSexoport, Tpt's tool for epub conversion. But I always thought that the link was not visible enough... So, I've been bold and added the link to the converter directly in the Header template. The result, I think, is quite stunning: on the 26th we had 4738 dowloads, now we are at 8700! In ten days we doubled the number of downloads we had in few years... I think it is a simple but powerful edit. You just have to put in your header a thing like this: <div class="noprint" style="text-align: left;"> <small>{{epub|{{PAGENAME}}|testo=Scarica questo testo come EPUB}}</small></div> I suggest you keep track of the stats *before* and *after* the edit here http://wsexport.wmflabs.org/tool/stat.php Let me know how it goes! :-) Aubrey

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IEEE CFP: Fifth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2015)
by Conference Updates 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

The Fifth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP2015) Faculty of Engineering - Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon April 29 – May 01, 2015 http://sdiwc.net/conferences/dictap2015/ The conference is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Lebanon Section. All registered papers will be submitted to IEEE for inclusion to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. ================================================================= You are invited to submit your papers to the conference. The DICTAP2015 welcomes submissions on any topic in the field of digital information, communications technology and any related topics: - Security in Information and Telecommunication System - Network Systems and Devices - Wireless and Optical Communications - Algorithms, Architecture, and Infrastructures - Information Content Security - Cloud Computing and Computer Networks - Sensor Networks and Embedded System - E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Business and E-Government - Data Exchange Issues and Supply Chain - Information Retrieval - Web Services, Web based Application - Data Grids, Data and Information Quality - Data Warehouses and Data Mining - Image Analysis and Image Processing - Management and Diffusion of Multimedia Applications - Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security - Video Search and Video Mining - Enterprise Computing - Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 - Knowledge Management - Compression and Coding - XML and other extensible languages - Intelligent and Robust System - ICT for Social and Humanity - Security and Access Control - Constraint Programming - Ubiquitous Systems - Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules - Communication Protocols, Communication Systems - Network Management Techniques - Telecommunication Business & Regulation - Modeling, Algorithm, and Optimization - Information Theory, System, and Technology - Scientific Computing and Multimedia Processing - Transmission, Antenna & Propagation - Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems - Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes - Information Visualization - Web Metrics and its Applications - Data Models for Production Systems and Services - Data, Text, and Web Content Mining - Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia - Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis - Mobile Data Management - Computer Graphics - Soft Computing - Networks Security, Encryption and Cryptography - Peer to Peer Data Management - Natural Language Processing - Human-Computer Interaction - Distributed Information Systems - Temporal and Spatial Databases - Digital Rights Management - Quality of Service Issues - Interoperability Papers should be submitted electronically as pdf format without author(s) name. You can submit your research paper at http://sdiwc.net/conferences/dictap2015/paper-submission/ IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission Deadline: March 1, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2015 Camera Ready Submission: March 30, 2015 Registration: March 30, 2015 Conference Dates: April 29 – May 01, 2015

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New release of unpaper
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

Unpaper is the tool to crop and otherwise prepare scans to be OCR'd. There was a new release the other day and the maintainer has several interesting posts. https://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/unpaper https://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/unpaper Nemo

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Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: Re: Standardize ProofreadPage namespaces, again
by mah＠nichework.com 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

wp mirror <wpmirrordev(a)gmail.com> writes: > Could someone please file a bug report for Standardization of > ProofreadPage namespaces. > > I would like to be CC'd on this issue. I have looked at > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43934>, but it a bit > off the mark. If you want to be CC'd, you'll have to create an account. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/createaccount.cgi If you create an account, you may as well open the bug that you want opened yourself. so that you can properly describe what you want. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug for more help. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084

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Articol on Odia Wikisource
by Andrea Zanni 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/10/18/more-than-40-million-people-await-… :-) Aubrey

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Standardize ProofreadPage namespaces, again
by Ricordisamoa 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

About this RFC <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Standardize_ProofreadP…>, John Vandenberg agreed to use the 250 / 252 pair for Page and Index namespaces, respectively. Is it wise to just go ahead and request changing one site at a time? What are your wikis' general opinions about this?

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