While uploading into IA books from an interesting Italian library (
http://www.opal.unito.it) we are exploring anything useful to automatize
upload and to collect into Internet Archive anu metadata useful to
automatize IA->Commons->wikisource flow and IA metadata retrieval (both by
python and by jQuery).
A new collection: opallibriantichi - collects recents uploads from
http://www.opal.unito.it and is used to tests and scripts debugging. I got
admin privileges for this collection. Most of upload work is going on using
itsource tool into Tool Labs at dev-login.
We're collecting experiences about; in the meantime, we'll wroto something
from our present experience into oldwikisource.:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_vision_development/Internet_Archive
Please notify in that page (or its Talk page) existence of similar
pages/projects/experiences here or there.
Alex
Wikisourcerors in Residence :-)
Andrea
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English Wikisource had a bot which would perform OCR on request by a user
when the user pressed a button in the Wikisource website interface.
Is that like what you are trying to achieve?
I think it used categories as a work queue. JavaScript placed the page in a
category, and the bot picked up the page from the category and removed it
from the category once the bot task had completed.
Some tools use a wiki page as a register of bot commands to be executed by
the bot.
If you need more complex interaction between user and bot via JavaScript,
the bot will likely need to provide a http listener that the JS and bot can
communicate via.
*Hi*
*How do I build a python bot/script with JavaScript for the frontend
(ideally as Wikisouorce gadget <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget>).*
*Project is for gsoc2014. So it should be something which can be live on
wikisource gadgets.*
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FYI \o/
Em 03/03/2014 15:13, <bugzilla-daemon(a)wikimedia.org> escreveu:
> Rohit Dua <8ohit.dua(a)gmail.com> changed bug 57813<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57813>
> What Removed Added CC 8ohit.dua(a)gmail.com
>
> *Comment # 2 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57813#c2>
> on bug 57813 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57813> from
> Rohit Dua <8ohit.dua(a)gmail.com> *
>
> (In reply to vladjohn2013 from comment #0 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57813#c0>)> Google Books > Internet Archive > Commons upload cycle
> >
> > Wikisources all around the world use heavily GB digitizations for
> > transcription and proofreading. As GB provides just the PDF, the usual cycle
> > is:
> >
> > go to Google Books and look for a book
> > check if the book is already in IA
> > if it's not, upload it there
> > get the djvu from IA
> > upload it on Commons
> > use it on Wikisource
> >
> > For point 4, we have this awesome tool:
> > https://toolserver.org/~tpt/iaUploadBot/step1.php What we miss right now is
> > a tool for point 2.1, that would serve many other users outside the
> > Wikimedia movement too. Eventually, we could think of a bot/script which
> > would do all the work altogether, notifying the user when their help is
> > needed (eg metadata polishing, Commons categories, etc.) Mentors: Aubrey is
> > available for "design" mentorship, paired with a technical expert. We can
> > maybe ask help from a IA expert.
> >
> > URL:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/
> > Possible_projects#Google_Books_.3E_Internet_Archive_.3E_Commons_upload_cycle
>
>
> Hi
>
> This is to inform that I am working on Bug 57813 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57813> - Google Books > Internet
> Archive > Commons upload cycle, via GSOC-2014 project.
> I'm ready with with the outline of google-books download script.
>
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> 8ohit.dua
> New Delhi,India
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Folks from Wikimedia Israel wrote to the board for a problem with the URAA
and Commons.
I also wrote in the talk page to assert that Commons problem is also
Wikisource problem,
and we would really benefit from a solution
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Israel/Letter_to_the_BoT_reg…
Aubrey
Hi!
The ProofreadPage lack of documentation is a real problem since the creation of the extension. For example, I discovered in 2012 that some en.wikisource administrators didn't know the very useful header=1 parameter of the <pages> tag.
Currently the installation and configuration documentation is stored on the extension page on MediaWiki.org [1]. But, about the user documentation (parameters of <pages> tag…) there is no authoritative source, only some partial pages on oldWikisource and on help pages of language based wikis.
I really believe that this big issue should be fix. I think the best way to do it is to create a central documentation page for end users in the Help namespace of MediaWiki.org, that would document all the features of the ProofreadPage extension and be updated when things change in the extensions. It would be written in English and then translated in the same place using the Translate extension, so all Wikisources should be able to replace their own partial documentation with this centralized version.
But, because of my lack of free time, I don’t feel able to archive this goal alone. Is there someone ready to start the work by collecting data disseminated on oldWikisource and one some language based Wikisource and start this page [3]? I’m ready to help for the not documented yet parts. It doesn’t requires technical skills, only a knowledge on how to use ProofreadPage. So I think that any experienced Wikisource contributor is able to do it.
Many thanks to the person that will do it, who will have the eternal gratitude of the Wikisource community.
Thomas
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page
[2] https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ProofreadPage
