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RFC: IEG Grant proposal to develop tools for (Armenian) Wikisource
by Aleksey Chalabyan 20 Apr '14

20 Apr '14

Hi, I've made an IEG Grant proposal, to develop few tools for Armenian Wikisource, which can be localized, adjusted for different languages and used globally in the future. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Tools_for_Armenian_Wikisource_an… I would appreciate your feedback, ideas and thought, on this, a lot. Do you find those tool useful for your Wikisource projects? May be you have small feature requests, which you think will make those tools more appealing. Also if there's anyone willing to join the project, or to modify tools for their language version in future, I'd be happy to hear that. Thanks beforehand, Aleksey, [[User:Xelgen]]

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Wikisource community meet-up at Wikimania 2014
by David Cuenca 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

Hi, this year the Wikimania will be in* London* and it will be a great opportunity to have a *Wikisource community meet-up* there. I requested a room for* Aug 9th* (Saturday), who would be coming? During the wmcon I learnt that it is possible to apply for funds to the GAC to bring selected members from strategically-targeted language communities (Diversity), or someone who wants to learn about how to revitalize their wikisource (Community building) or learn how to start projects (Outreach). It could also be someone from an external organization we want to partner with. As always there must be a very strong motivation to do things and it has to yield results, since travels are expensive. Are there suggestions about who should we try to bring? Additionally this year there are several Wikisource-related submissions, so we could also "package" the ones that get accepted into a brouchure to promote Wikisource and the related talks. Some that have been identified: *DIY-Scanner<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_hardware_and_Open…>: to learn how it was done and evaluate if we can replicate the project internationally *Wikisource technical infrastructure<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikisource_technical_i…>: to see what has been done and the discussion about the technical developments *Wikisource panel<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Panel:_Wikisource,_fro…>: general discussion, workflow and metadata handling *Gujarati Wikisource<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Gujarati_Wikisource>: to learn about how a small community overcame the initial challenges *Malayalam Digitization Contest<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Malayalam_Wikisource_D…>: the Wikisource contest<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/21/wikisource-proofreading-contest/>is becoming global, good time to discuss lessons learnt and how to make it grow further. Feel free to vote them if you find them interesting! Cheers, Micru

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Re: [Wikisource-l] Community logo for Wikisource
by Thomas PT 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

Thanks for these amazing logos. I've also a small preference for Isarra one that is a little less sad and represents well what Wikisource community is: a part of the Wikimedia community focused on books. Thomas Le 18 avr. 2014 13:03, David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com> a écrit : > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Same thing for me ; Isarra's one looks better to me. >> >> The blue colours are a good reminder of the iceberg but it's a bit « sad ». > > > The other one is not so happy either, but I like both :) > > Cheers, > Micru

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Community logo for Wikisource
by Luiz Augusto 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

Hi all, I and [[User:Danilo.mac]] ve created some proposals of community logos, as in the same spirit the Wikimedia Community logo was created years ago. You are free to use, fork or simply ignore their existence =) (BTW Dear Wikimedia Foundation, please don't trademark those logos as you've tried to do at the Wikimedia Community one.) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_Community_Logo_globe_not… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_Community_Logo_globe_tex… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikisource_Community_Logo_scroll_no… Best, Luiz

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Multiple page move with prefix book title
by Jayanta Nath 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Dear all, I am again from Bengali Wikisource for help. Can it be possible to Multiple page move with prefix book title? Some user create one Poetry Book "Gitanjali" by Rabindranath Tagore, with all peotry with first stanza line ( 170 poetry) as a title (NS0). You can see English version [1]. I want to move all respective first stanza line poetry to respectively Gitanjali/1, Gitanjali/2,Gitanjali/3 ..... Not only this Poetry Book, Maximum all Poetry Book was created like this way wrongly in our Wikisource. Please give some advice/help to do this easily, either bot, semi-bot (AWB). Regards, Jayanta Nath https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gitanjali

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Need Import templates from EN.WS
by Jayanta Nath 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi Everyone, I am from Bengali Wikisource, we need all template from Wikisource from https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Formatting_templates. Are there any inter-wiki importer to do this??? I can do this by one by one. We have no XML import rights. Regards, Jayanta Nath BNWS Admin

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Report: Representing the Wikisource User Group at WMCON '14
by David Cuenca 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi all, I was invited to participate on the Wikimedia Conference 2014 [1] on behalf of the Wikisource Community User Group. I was in Hamburg the week before, so I just booked a bus ticket and went to Berlin this past weekend. The WMCON is primarily oriented towards chapters, but there were also user group representatives, and members of the FDC, GAC, and WMF panel. By talking with members of the several chapters I got informed about the Wikisource-oriented efforts that are happening on each community. I found a pity that this kind of information is not shared at international level, since there are always lessons to be learn and new ideas that can help any Wikisource language community (for instance the DIY-scanners from WM Argentina). Some effort will be neded to collect more stories, probably during Wikimania. I also seeked advice about how to further promote the WsCUG, so it can benefit all Wikisource members with projects funded at international level. Discussing this matters with GAC and FDC members was useful, since they informed me about how to shape proposals in a sustainable way. I also approached WMDE and they were willing to provide help, as they did to the German Wikisource by helping to organize their meet-up last year All in all, it was a positive experience that can help the WsCUG to move forward. I will talk about concrete actions in a different email. Cheers, Micru [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014 [2] http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Treffen_2013

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Zurich hackathon
by Andrea Zanni 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi guys, does somebody plans to go to the Zurich hackathon? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014 Wikimedia CH can provide the accomodation, but it is too late to ask them for a scholarship. There are maybe other means, but please get in contact to us asap. the registration deadline is *tomorrow*. Aubrey

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Nepali Wiki Source
by Ganesh Paudel 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Hi everyone, I am Ganesh from Nepal. Good have time with Andrea in Berlin to discuss about Wiki Source. We require Wiki Source in Nepali Language (ne). Please help us out. Best, Ganesh K. Paudel

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Re: [Wikisource-l] Improving information retrieval methods for OCR data sets consisting of Indic scripts
by Jayanta Nath 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

I am expecting any response from Ankur Group regarding Bengali/Bangla OCR project which we are interested to use in practical field. Area there any binary file to use offline? Jayanta Nath Bengali Wikisource Community On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sankarshan, > > Thank you for prompt inisitiative after talking at Kolkata bookfair. > Bengali wikipedia community ( wiki source, bn.wikisource.org), are > ready to do a nothing except coding to crack this OCR issues. As all you > know that, this will not only help for us, it will be the most awaited > wishes from longtime. > > Regards, > Jayanta > > > On Monday, February 3, 2014, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < > sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Rabindra, >> >> Thank you for writing in. >> >> I am replying as a top-post because I have copied in the mailing list >> we use to discuss project ideas (subscription interface should be >> available from < >> http://lists.ankur.org.in/listinfo.cgi/project-ideas-ankur.org.in> >> >> I have also added Jayanta Nath in the list. I met Jayanta yesterday >> (after a suitably long period of interactions over email) and, we >> ended up chatting about the usual - "how to crack this OCR issue in a >> manner that helps the Bengali Wikipedia community and, especially >> Wikisource" >> >> I am glad to note that you have taken a look at Abhishek's existing >> work. Have you been able to reach out to him and discuss in some level >> of detail the current state of the work? The voting piece is somewhat >> based on the concept that a larger number of users of the system can >> help train the system for higher degree of accuracy. >> >> ankur.org.in will be putting in an application as a mentoring >> organization. However, the acceptance in GSoC2014 is always subject to >> - [1] good set of project ideas; [2] reasonable success from previous >> year etc. So, there is a period of waiting before one gets to know >> about being selected as a mentoring organization and, thereafter >> begins the process of selecting strong applications from students. >> >> I would recommend that you spend this time catching up with Abhishek >> and also Jayanta in order to be able to understand a real-life >> utilization of your project (should ankur.org.in be selected and, you >> are accepted as a student) >> >> /sankarshan >> >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Rabindra Rakshit <rovir2r(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I (Rabindra Rakshit), am interested in applying for GSOC 2014, and would >> > like to know if Ankur India is applying as a mentoring organization this >> > year also. >> > >> > I am currently pursuing my B.tech in Computer Science(CSE) from College >> of >> > Engineering and Management, Kolaghat, and being born a Bengali, would >> love >> > to see my language flourish in the open source community. >> > >> > I am particularly interested in the project about Improving information >> > retrieval methods for OCR data sets consisting of Indic scripts(Info >> > Rescue). I had a look on the work plan of Abhishek Gupta, the final >> voting >> > system in a general(abstract) manner is yet to be implemented. >> > >> > I don't have any exact experience about OCR, but I do have experience of >> > working with Information Retrieval Systems, in fact, right now I am >> working >> > on Consensus Sequence Segmentation, an Unsupervised Text Segmentation >> > algorithm that relies entirely on statistical relationships among >> alphabets >> > in the input sequence to detect location of word boundaries. I have >> attached >> > a document of our work which is still in progress. >> > >> > Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3839 >> >> -- >> sankarshan mukhopadhyay >> <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> >> >

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