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Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
by manoj k 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Dear friends, New year wishes to all. Wikisource project, a project of Wikimedia foundation is celebrating its tenth anniversary. As a part of the decennary celebrations, the Wikisource projects in various languages all over the world are conducting competitions that enrich their contents including but not limited to proof- reading and digitization. Being a part of it, Wikisource's Malayalam version - Wiki Grandhasala community, a voluntary unit engaged in collecting and digitizing valuable Malayalam books of yesteryears, is organizing a digitization (Typing & Proofreading) competition, along with various Government as well as Non-Government establishments and other voluntary organisations with similar interests like Kerala Sahithya Academy, IT@ school Project, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Center for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) under the banner of Malayalam Wiki community.. This digitisation competition is being conducted as a part of an effort that collects Malayalam Books whose copyright date has expired in digital form (in unicode format) preserving the content and makig them more accessible and popular. The competition lasts for a month, starting on January 1, 2014 and ending on Jan 31, 2014. The competition focuses especially individuals and schools and includes some attractive prizes including E-book readers, Tablets and selected books for those who lead the scoreboard. In this competition, books that was recently released by Kerala Sahithya Academy to its public collection will be digitised. Details of the competition;There are two specific competitions *Competition for individuals:-* This competition is for the general public. It includes typing and proofreading of selected books. The main aim is to attract people who are active in social media into Wiki Grandhasala activities. Those who wish to participate in this competition should register before January 31st 2014. Here are the pages which are to be typed in as part of this competition. *Competition for schools:-* Presently many student groups, through the IT Cell of their respective schools, participate actively in the Wiki Grandhasala effort. This version of the competition aims to increase the participation of such student groups. The idea is to inculcate more love for their mother tongue among the students. The process also aims at providing awareness out about such c ollaborative activities, getting them interested in computer related areas, specifically Language Computing. Scanned copies of books that are in public domain will be made available to the respective schools. Under the supervision of IT@school coordinators of each school, students have to type them and proof read, which will be added to Wiki Grandhasala. The prizes (like E-book readers, Portable scanners) are sponsored by Center for Internet and Society, Kerala Sahithya Academy and Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. Also, certificates will be awarded to all students who participate in the school level competition and IT@school coordinators, for their coordination activities. Those who wish to sponsor more prizes, and those who wish to makescanned/hard copiesbooks in the public domain availale to Wiki Grandhasala can contact mlwikisource(a)gmail.com. Project Page: https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:DC2014 Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/265018530322640/ Score Bord : http://balasankarc.in/ProofreadingContest/index.html For Malayalam Wikisource Community Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ General Convener, Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014

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A draft work-specific dictionary project
by Alex Brollo 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

Into it.source we are trying to implement a tool to build work-specific dictionaries; the tool saves interactively the list of "verified" words and the list of "wrong word sostitutions", the latter in a format that allows a fast replacing of "wrong words" with"right words" into the wikitext. The tool works both in view/submit mode (to feed and to edit the dictionary) and in edit mode (to edit the dictionary and to launch substitution). Words retrieval turned out simpler working on html than on wikitext. Lists are saved into localStorage space, but can be exported into wiki pages to be shared with other users. There's no server contribution, but managing storig pages (that fastly grow to large sizes; but saving lists into pages is optional, and they could be shared too using external repositories like Dropbox or similar services). I'll tell you the result of more tests - first results of draft scripts seem incouraging. Alex

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Mass deletions on pt.wikisource
by Luiz Augusto 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

In the next hours I will start a mass deletion of pages on pt.wikisource (64k on ns:0 and 6k on ns:Page). ns:0 mass deletion is due to an (still) incomplete import of contents from a PD-old dictionary proofreaded by Distributed Proofreaders. The content still is valid and relevant to Wikisource, but the task that my bot had done years ago contains lots of tecnical issues (and certainly 1 definition per content page wasn't the right choice from my side). Content is anyway available at http://www.dicionario-aberto.net ; ns:Page mass deletion is to prevent BLP issues, since it reproduces raw unformated texts from Commission d'enquête parlementaire done to inquire political corruption scandals. The very few amount of pages proofreaded from this set will be keept. More on https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Utilizador:Delete.Bot#janeiro_de_2014 https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Esplanada/Eliminações_via_bot_(ja… I'm sending this note since it will change significantly some global Wikisource statistics. [[:m:User:555]]

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Data namespace for Wikisource
by Andrea Zanni 29 Dec '13

29 Dec '13

Dear all, volcanic User:Alex brollo is working on "dictionaries", aka generating lists of used words in Pages and works. For example: https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Discussioni_pagina:Il_cavallarizzo.djvu/2, as a list of the book Il cavallarizzo. I bet that in the next few years (with more books, more users, Wikidata, and the world domination led by Wikisource) we would have more and more of these experiments. A list of used words of an ancient book could help customize OCR and tools for typo corrections, for example. Moreover, we will have Wikidata, and maybe we will need to store some metadata (eg page numbers, or metadata about images and scans) into Wikisource. Lua could help us build tools for creating automatic indexes, or textual version in ns0 (eg precompile the pagelist tag...) So, the question is: want we Wikisource communities a new Data namespace? How do you like the idea? Would you want to have the Wikibase extension in it, or just a normal namespace? I'm sure you will find this mail confusing, but I think we are in the need of something, I just don't know what it is :-) Aubrey

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US National Archives virtual internship program
by Dominic McDevitt-Parks 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi all, I'd like to announce the US National Archives' new virtual internship program<http://www.archives.gov/careers/internships/virtual/index.html#wikipedian>for Wikipedians. We are offering unpaid internships at the National Archives for experienced Wikipedians with technical or community skills. This is intended to be a way for Wikipedians interested in working on NARA's GLAM efforts to formalize their affiliation with NARA, and receive academic credit, work experience, and a reference. The interns will have a staff mentor (me) to guide their work, and the chance to have a real impact on the state of Wikipedia and public access to cultural heritage. We are initially offering internships for Wikipedians with technical skills, who would help us with Commons image uploads, analytics, etc., and those skilled at organizing the Wikimedia community, to help coordinate our WikiProject and communicate our activities. There is no required time commitment or start date, and these sorts of details can be negotiated. I would encourage anyone on this list with interest to apply or share out the posting with other members of the Wikimedia community who might be a good fit. Please feel free to reply here or contact me personally if you have any questions. More information and instructions for applying can be found here: http://www.archives.gov/careers/internships/virtual/index.html#wikipedian Thanks! -- Dominic McDevitt-Parks Digital Content Specialist, Wikipedian in Residence National Archives and Records Administration Dominic.McDevitt-Parks(a)nara.gov (301) 837-0356

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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images
by Lars Aronsson 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

On 12/20/2013 10:23 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > where some fine print is no longer legible. What I > want is one that has only been reduced down > to 300 dpi or so. How can I get that? With a little help from okfn-labs (Open Knowledge Foundation), here is a script that works for my book: #!/bin/sh pag=1 while true do hex=`printf "%04X" $pag` dec=`printf "%04d" $pag` if [ ! -s $dec.jpg ] then echo -n . wget -q -O $dec.jpg "http://access.bl.uk/IIIFImageService/ark:/81055/vdc_000000011B9A.0x00$hex/0…" || break sleep 2 else echo -n : fi pag=`expr $pag + 1` done That is the URL for one tile, but the tile that I request starts at 0,0 and is 10000 pixels wide, so it contains the full page 1800x2400 pixels, in full (pct:100) = 300 dpi resolution. This was faster than waiting for BL's webmaster's response on Monday. In my case, I want the JPEGs. But if you want to use a book in Wikisource, you might want to create a Djvu or PDF bundle of all the JPEGs for the entire book. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images
by Lars Aronsson 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

On 12/15/2013 05:08 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: > Quote from full announcement > http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f… > > We have released over a million images > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary> onto Flickr Commons > for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken > from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by > Microsoft > <http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-19th-Century…> > [...] > > > Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary > Example of image http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11307195524/ > Example of all images from a book > http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum002660292 > Stuff for coders https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory I found an illustration from a Swedish book, found it in the catalog of the British Library, and from there I could both download a PDF and view the whole book in an online 'item viewer'. However, the downloaded PDF has a much lower resolution (I estimate it at 150 dpi) than the real scans (which I estimate at 300 dpi). The illustrations on Flickr are in full resolution. Has anybody found out how to download the whole book in full resolution? The 'item viewer' appears to be a Javascript zoom and pan interface based on layers of 'tiles' (similar to OpenStreetMap), scaled and cut from the scanned images. I had the same problem with books scanned by the Norwegian national library, but there I was able to figure out how to download images in full resolution by requesting large tiles at full zoom. The URLs used by the British Library are opaque to me. Here is the illustration found on Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11067189413/ The description there says 'page 331 of Elfsyssel', Identifier: 000507311, an easily identifiable book. How can I search Flickr for other 'Elfsyssel' pictures? This search yields nothing, http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=elfsyssel The library catalog record is found here, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?mode=Basic&vid=B… After I downloaded the PDF, I made the book available for reading and proofreading here, http://runeberg.org/elfsyssel/ The illustration (on "page 331") is here, http://runeberg.org/elfsyssel/0331.html but even if you select "full resolution" there, you only get the image from the PDF, and not the good picture from Flickr. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

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European Commission copyright consultation
by David Cuenca 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

The European Comission is asking for feedback about copyright laws. I think now it would be a good opportunity to voice our concern from the Wikisource perspective about copyright laws: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/European_Commission_copyright_consultation Cheers, Micru

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Issues with ProofreadPage
by Thomas Tanon 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Hi everyone! I’m really sorry for all the issues affecting Wikisources. A fix for most of them have just been deployed (it have been an hard work) and I’ll try to fix all the remaining ones for the next Tuesday deployment. Here is a list of the fixed issues: * The image didn’t appear for Page: pages that are member of a multipage file but that haven’t as Index: page a page called Index:NAME_OF_THE_DJVU (it have affected mostly pl.wikisource) * A part of some Page: pages body content appeared as part of their footer in edit mode when those pages contains a <noinclude> tag * The color of the link to a Page: page was red in the Index: page when its level category name contained a whitespace (to fix this issue a purge of each Page: page affected is required) * The creation of a Page: page using the API caused a fatal error * An indentation was displayed on the first paragraph of a Page: page Here is the remaining known issues (thanks to report ones that haven’t been listed here): * The Page: pages edit summary contains twice the proofreading level change tag. A fix for it is on review that will let the software adds the tag on Page: page saving (the tag won’t be visible during the editing process. * The addition of default header and footer content adds a strange string instead of tags like <references />. A fix for it is on review * The body textarea on Page: pages editing is too big. I’m working on a fix that would use the size defined in User preferences instead. * Fatal error on submit for a very few pages (a fix is on review) * It isn’t possible anymore to zoom in with a mouse. I’m working on a fix * the issue with gadget that Aubrey have reported here (I think that the solution is more on the gadget side that on the extension one) * It’s not possible to edit only the body of a page throw the API I’m going to work on automatized tests in the next weeks in order to avoid a so major number of bugs the next times. Sorry again, Thomas PS: For people that ignore it, the maintenance work of the ProofreadPage extension is mostly done by volunteers like you. So, please be kind

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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Collection Extension (Not rendering to formats other than PDF)
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 13 Dec '13

13 Dec '13

Matthew Walker, 13/12/2013 01:20: > Just wanted to post to this list that I have just reverted the offending > commit that was causing the Collection extension to not be able to > render to any format other than PDF (bugs 58151 [1], 57975 [2], and > 57920 [3].) I understand that these bugs were causing some amount of > grumbling in the WikiSource community. > > I've still yet to determine why the commit in question [4] was causing > issues; but eventually I'll figure it out. Thanks! Much appreciated. Nemo > > [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58151 > [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57975 > [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57920 > [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95483/ > > ~Matt Walker > Wikimedia Foundation > Fundraising Technology Team > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >

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