Hi Everyone,
Today, Tuesday, March 28 is the final date of submission.
We are elated to receive more than 300 program proposal submissions for
Wikimania 2023.
This is not just for onsite in Singapore. Please consider submitting a
poster session proposal or a pre-recorded video session format. We love to
see your proposals under these session formats as well!
To submit one, just click the blue button at
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions
Kind regards,
*Butch Bustria*
Event Lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
We are hosting this month's Wikisource Community meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings> on 27th
March 2023, at 10 AM UTC (Check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1679911241>) according to the wudele poll
<https://wudele.toolforge.org/U2feqmZBy62FJjVd>.
The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and
conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and
collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and
conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource
communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Community meetings.
If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on
sgill(a)wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.
Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings> and suggest
any other topics for the agenda.
Regards
Parthiv and Kolawole
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings
Hi Folks,
We encourage each and everyone of you to create a program submission. You can submit an interactive workshop or panel, a lecture, a short lighting talk or a poster for our dedicated poster session. Submissions are catered to both onsite and online (live or pre-recorded) or a hybrid combination. We at the Core Organizing Team would like to see a program submission related to Wikisource.
The theme for this year's Wikimania is Diversity, Collaboration, Future. Topics that strengthen collaboration on digitization and Wikisource are topics we like to see this year. We love to see workshops, panels or lectures that entice interest on digitization and contributing content to Wikisource. Onsite activities include like scanning public domain documents, literature and many others. There is also a
spacious Wikimania Expo space where these activities can be done. I personally have a book scanner on standby for use. You may also suggest a group activity to visit the National Archives of Singapore.
For participants joining virtually, we also have allocated online hours for you too to allow you to participate & present.
Session submissions for Wikimania 2023 are open until 28 March, 2023.
Visit the following links for further info:
Wiki page: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions
Diff post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/28/be-part-of-the-wikimania-2023-program/
Program Submission Form: https://pretalx.com/wm2023/cfp
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Chair, Program Subcommittee
Event lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
We are hosting this month's Wikisource Community meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings> of the year
on 26th February 2023, at 11 AM UTC (Check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1674907242>) according to the wudele poll
<https://wudele.toolforge.org/qDEHHRJRNJLmwsi4>.
The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and
conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and
collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and
conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource
communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Community meetings.
If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on
sgill(a)wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.
Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings> and suggest
any other topics for the agenda.
Regards
Parthiv and Kolawole
Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
We are hosting the first Wikisource Community meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings> of the year
on 28th January 2023 at 12 PM UTC / 5:30 PM IST (Check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1674907242>) according to the wudele poll
<https://wudele.toolforge.org/5tauCFqk8NJQBcBv>.
The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and
conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and
collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and
conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource
communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Triage meetings.
If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on
sgill(a)wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.
Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings> and suggest
any other topics for the agenda.
Regards
Parthiv and Kolawole
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings
OCR is an old problem. There is commercial software, such as Finereader,
and free software such as Tesseract. But is there also a new trend in
home-built software based on new frameworks for neural networks and
deep learning? Keras? TensorFlow? Is anybody experimenting with this
for OCR of scanned books?
When I ask researchers in image processing / computer vision, they
say that plain text (book) OCR "is a solved problem" that nobody
researches, and all research goes into self-driving cars reading
street signs. Is this true, or are there any exceptions?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/