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Wikisource things: grant proposal, wikidata
by Andrea Zanni 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Dear all, I don't know how many of you are aware of a grant proposal for Wikisource, prepared by Micru, me (Aubrey), and Tpt. The proposal is currently under review: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vi… On a related matter, i wanted to encourage those of you who are interested in metadata to share their thoughts here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal#Literature_.2F_Lit… We also created a "task force" for books, 'cause Wikidata is not easy and it's maybe better to have a group discussing these matters: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force I also created a metadata mappings between our templates (Commons, Wikipedia, Wikisource), to have a rough idea of the core properties we need right now. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlPNcNlN2oqvdFQyR2F5YmhrMWpXaU… Any feedback/help/critic is really appreciated Cheers Aubrey

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Australian WWI WiR program
by John Vandenberg 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

ATTN: Australians, mostly ;-) During the week of ALIA at which Sue Gardner keynoted, the Wikimedia Australia committee consulted with Australian GLAM partners and formulated a concept to support a significant number of Wikimedians in Residence across Australia. After a bit of refinement, and having received a few in-principle agreements from GLAMs, the committee approved the following proposal on Sunday. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:WWI_WiR If you will reside in Australia in the 2013-14 financial year, and can work as a WiR one day a week for six months, please apply here (and/or tell your friends): http://tinyurl.com/WWIWiRAu If you think cultural institutions in your region will be interested and have relevant material in their collection, please ask them to email committee(a)wikimedia.org.au . -- John Vandenberg

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Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography digitised on Wikisource
by John Vandenberg 12 Feb '13

12 Feb '13

Congrats Charles for seeing this project through to completion, and the many others involved in. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Stevie Benton" <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk> Date: Feb 12, 2013 2:40 AM Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography digitised on Wikisource To: "UK Wikimedia mailing list" <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Hello everyone, I write to let you know about a really interesting project on Wikisource. A group of volunteers, including Charles Matthews, has just finished digitising the Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography<http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900>. The project is the result of the efforts of over 30 volunteers since 2008 and has led to over 30,000 articles being added to Wikisource. Charles has put together a blog post about the project which can be seen here<http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/02/victorian-era-dictionary-of-national-b…> . Thanks and regards, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Fwd: [cultural-partners] kind of a partnership: Wikisource saves Lentapedia
by John Vandenberg 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Forwarding with permission. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Анастасия Львова" <anastasia.lvova(a)wikimedia.ru> Date: Jan 30, 2013 4:46 PM Subject: [cultural-partners] kind pf a partnership: Wikisource saves Lentapedia To: "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination" < cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch> Cc: Good day, colleagues, I want to say about our small news: Lenta.ru, one of the most popular Russian language online resources with over 600 thousand visitors daily, have developed Lentapedia, an archive about popular news. It was very popular source for Russian Wikipedia articles, but some time ago the main Lenta's editor decided to stop updating the project because of lack of traffic and publish the project under cc-by-sa 3.0. Some days ago Lenta.ru changed it's design, and there isn't any place for Lentapedia in it, so we copied all materials from Lentapedia to Wikisourse; 1993 articles. As I said before, it's enough small news, but I hope it will be interesting there. Our post about it is there: http://wikimedia.ru/blog/2013/01/30/wikisource-spasaet-lentapedia/ -- regards, Lvova Anastasia _______________________________________________ cultural-partners mailing list cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for permission before forwarding emails off-list.

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Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource-l Digest, Vol 179, Issue 1
by billinghurst 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 <Dimce Grozdanoski> 12:00:50 +0000, Hi all, I'm new to wikisource. I look for help how to upload large collection of books, about 130 volumes of books in Macedonian and it's translation in English. If some one have some suggestions how to do it at the best way in short time. Best regards, Dimce Grozdanoski Wikimedia Macedonia Hi Dimce, ==Upload== * Djvu or PDF files with scanned text layers are best. * I am presuming that all works are in the public domain in both the US and the place of publication * (if previous is okay) Files are uploaded to Commons, and we look to use the {{book}} template [1] * There are some reasonable instructions and explanations at English Wikipedia for many aspects.[2] This gets the files in place, and if we have used {{book}} the meta data available ==Local creations== For each work an Index: file will need to be created. Not sure about Macedonian wiki, but for enWS, putting a list of the works uploaded to commons, or pointing to your uploads, and asking for help at "Scriptorium"[3] will elicit assistance. BUT you say Macdeonian and English translations, so presumably both are not on the same scanned page. This adds some complexity, so we need some understanding of what specifically is available. If you the files are big, and/or you have upload issues, then with that many files, they can be burnt onto media and sent to WMF for upload. Note this will take effort and coordination. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template: [2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Proofreading [3] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium

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wikisource upload
by Dimce Grozdanoski 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hi all, I'm new to wikisource. I look for help how to upload large collection of books, about 130 volumes of books in Macedonian and it's translation in English. If some one have some suggestions how to do it at the best way in short time. Best regards, Dimce Grozdanoski Wikimedia Macedonia

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Disruption expected.
by Guillaume Paumier 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

[Apologies for cross-posting; this concerns all Wikimedia projects] Posted today on the Wikimedia Tech Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/19/wikimedia-sites-move-to-primary-data-… Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia Next week, the Wikimedia Foundation will transition its main technical operations to a new data center in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. This is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia. Engineering teams have been preparing for the migration to minimize inconvenience to our users, but major service disruption is still expected during the transition. Our sites will be in read-only mode for some time, and may be intermittently inaccessible. Users are advised to be patient during those interruptions, and share information<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_maintenance_notice>in case of continued outage or loss of functionality. The current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC (see other timezones<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikimedia+data+cen…>on timeanddate.com). Wikimedia sites have been hosted in our main data center in Tampa, Florida, since 2004; before that, the couple of servers powering Wikipedia were in San Diego, California. Ashburn is the third and newest primary data center to host Wikimedia sites. A major reason for choosing Tampa, Florida as the location of the primary data center in 2004 was its proximity to founder Jimmy Wales’ home, at a time when he was much more involved in the technical operations of the site. In 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Technical Operations team started to look<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/07/wmf-needs-additional-datacenter-space/>for other locations with better network connectivity and more clement weather. Located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Ashburn offers faster and more reliable connectivity than Tampa, and usually fewer hurricanes. The Operations team started to plan and prepare for the Virginia data center in Summer 2010. The actual build-out and racking of servers at the colocation facility started in February 2011, and was followed by a long period of hardware, system and software configuration. Traffic started to be served to users from the Ashburn data center in November 2011, in the form of CSS and JavaScript assets (served from “bits.wikimedia.org“). We reached a major milestone in February 2012, when caching servers were set up to handle read-only requests for Wikipedia and Wikimedia content, which represent most of the traffic to Wikipedia and its sister sites. In April 2012, the Ashburn data center also started to serve media files (from “upload.wikimedia.org“). Cacheable requests represent about 90 percent of our traffic, leaving 10 percent that requires interaction with our web (Apache) and database (MySQL) servers, which are still being hosted in Tampa. Until now, every edit made to a Wikipedia page has been handled by the servers in Tampa. This dependency on our Tampa data center was responsible for the site outage in August 2012<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/06/wikimedia-site-outage-6-august-2012/>, when a fiber cut severed the connection between our two locations. Starting next week, the new servers in Ashburn will take on that role as well, and all our sites will be able to function fully without relying on the servers in Florida. The legacy data center in Tampa will continue to be maintained, and will serve as a secondary “hot failover” data center: servers will be in standby mode to take over, should the primary site experiences an outage. Server configuration and data will be synchronized between the two locations to ensure a transition as smooth as possible in case of technical difficulties in Ashburn. Besides just installing newer hardware, setting up the data center in Ashburn has also been an opportunity for architecture overhauls, like incremental improvements of the text storage system<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/18/nobody-notices-when-its-not-broken-ne…>, and the move to an entirely new media storage system<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/09/scaling-media-storage-at-wikimedia-wi…>to keep up with the growth of the content generated and curated by our contributors. Wikimedia’s technical infrastructure aims to be as open and collaborative as the sites it powers. Most of the configuration of our servers<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/19/ever-wondered-how-the-wikimedia-serve…>is publicly accessible, and the Wikimedia Labs <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/16/introduction-to-wikimedia-labs/>initiative allows contributors to test and submit improvements to the sites’ configuration files. The Wikimedia Foundation currently operates a total of about 885 servers, and serves about 20 billion page views a month, on a non-profit budget that relies almost entirely on donations from readers. -- Guillaume Paumier

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Video Wikisource talks
by Andrea Zanni 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Hi all, finally there is the video about the talks given at Wikimania, about Wikisource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVHW20njYUg If you are insterested, thesere are the slides I used: http://www.slideshare.net/AubreyMcFato/wikisource-where-we-are-where-we-wan… Cheers Aubrey

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MARCsman
by Andrea Zanni 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

This should be of our interest... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MARCsman The tool can import MARC data from Library of Congress into Commons. Aubrey

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Re: [Wikisource-l] [Textbook-l] [Fwd: Adam Hyde] Booktype project at WMF for PediaPress etc.
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

adam(a)flossmanuals.net, 28/11/2012 11:57: >> See >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/65398 >> This is relevant for all projects heavily using the Collection >> extension, I guess. >> > > also happy to discuss anything here if you like. You may wish to check out > the following: > http://bookjs.net > > that is part of the tech I will discuss if there is to be a presentation Update: looks like this will happen today at 20.30 UTC: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-12-13 It would also be interesting to discuss the use of Translate https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate for free manuals/docs, given https://lwn.net/Articles/527966/ Nemo

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