http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php
now says
"403: User account expired"
This madness has to stop. Wikisource depends on this service.
I understand the German toolserver is beyond repair, but
phe's statistics scripts should be moved to proper WMF servers.
Back in April, I copied one set of phe's graphs to Commons,
where we can go for a nostalgic look at the once existing
statistics graph system that phe built, and that worked fine
until the German toolserver gang decided to ruin it,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ProofreadPage_Statistics
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Great news. It's good to have counsel who writes his own bots*. :-)
>
> Welcome, Stephen!
> SJ
>
> * http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BenchBot
Good to see a wikisourcerer in the Legal and Community Advocacy team!
Congrats Stephen.
--
John Vandenberg
(After the new counting method, at last.)
If you see sudden variation of the statistics, this is the reason. :)
Nemo
-------- Messaggio originale --------
Oggetto: [Bug 33253] Run updateArticleCount.php on all Wikisources and
Wiktionaries
Data: Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:39 +0000
Mittente: bugzilla-daemon(a)wikimedia.org
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33253
Sam Reed (reedy) changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keywords| |analytics
Status|NEW |RESOLVED
URL|analytics |
Resolution| |FIXED
--- Comment #10 from Sam Reed (reedy) 2012-05-10 09:00:39 CEST ---
Done
Sorry for crossposting but it's something that will (hopfeully, IMHO)
affect hundreds of wikis and it's interesting to know how to get to it.
Nemo
-------- Messaggio originale --------
Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] : RFC/Disable uploads on smaller wikis
Data: Tue, 8 May 2012 11:40:00 +0200
Mittente: とある白い猫
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Disable_uploads_on_smal…
Feel free to participate.
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Two weeks ago, I created a new Facebook page for Wikisource,
http://www.facebook.com/Wikisource
You can watch that page, even if you don't have an account
on Facebook.
There were already some other pages and groups, but none that
was updated or where I could post updates. The new page is
different. Whenever I recognize a Wikisourcerer among the
new fans, I make them a co-administrator of the page. The
page now has 54 fans, of which 19 are administrators. An
administrator can add new admins, post official updates in
the name of the page, i.e. Wikisource, and see statistics for
the page and its audience. This "wiki" approach to Facebook
page administration is a bit risky. Any one of the admins can
remove all the rest, hijack the page or close it down.
I'm simply assuming good faith.
Of course, not everybody uses Facebook. But then again, not
everybody uses Wikisource. This page is one channel to reach
out with information about Wikisource (or book digitization in
general) to people who use Facebook. People who have nothing
more important to do than to watch Facebook, can learn that
a more meaningful hobby awaits them in Wikisource.We can
still need other channels for outreach, all used in parallel.
What's needed now is more updates (messages, links, pictures,
funny quotes, timeline milestones) from more of you, telling
the world (on Facebook) what you are doing in Wikisource.
Should all updates be in English? I don't think so. Let's try
to mix languages! Translations can be provided as comments
to the updates.
If you "like" the page (become a fan), it would also be helpful
if you would "invite friends" to do the same. It needs to
grow a larger audience.
Facebook has introduced a new "timeline" format, which has
allowed me (or any page admin) to add some historic milestones
that Wikisource has gone through, from its start in 2003.
This summer, we have the 5th anniversary of the Proofread
Page extension coming up. Perhaps a cause for celebration
during Wikimania?
Background: I'm user:LA2, a wikipedian since 2001. I was a
member of the board of the Swedish chapter 2007-2012, but
recently left this position. I'm also the founder of
Project Runeberg, the Scandinavian e-text project, whose
Facebook page has 1500 fans.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Dear Wikisourcerors,
I'm planning to go to Wikimania and submit a speech, which goes like:
*Wikisource: what we've done, what we could do better* (or "What we
got right, what we'd get better")
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikisource:_what_we%27v…
Anyway, the idea is very simple:
1. We need to talk about Wikisource at Wikimania. Period.
2. I'd like to speak about the things Wikisource is good at, and the
good framework we developed over the years (eg. the Proofread
extension)
Nonetheless, Wikisources suffers significant flaws, as a proper
metadata system (Dublin Core metadata, OAI-MPH complaint system),
which prevents us to collaborate with
other projects, as Europeana, or other digital libraries.
Now, I'm writing you to ask you if such a panel/workshop would be interesting,
and to ask you if it would be better, with your help, to create a
panel in which some of us describe the best aspects and features of
their Wikisource.
Let me know if any of you could be interested in this.
Aubrey
PS: Cristian Consonni, my fellow board member in Wikimedia Italy, has
proposed a presentation about a reCAPTCHA for Wikisource:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikicaptcha:_a_ReCAPTCH…
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Sostieni la cultura, dona a Wikimedia Italia.
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In Russian Wikisource I was looking at a book, where lists of literature
references contain a mix of Russian and German titles. This book was
OCRed for Russian, so when the print says "Barentz" in Latin letters,
the OCR text says "Вагепгг", which are Cyrillic (Russian) letters that
look similar, but actually transcribe to the nonsense "Vagepgg".
When proofreading such a text in a wiki edit box (using the ProofreadPage
extension, as Wikisource does), it would be a great help if all Cyrillic
letters (a range of Unicode characters) in the edit box could be coloured
different from the Latin ones. Is this possible to achieve with a personal
or site-wide Javascript, stylesheet or gadget?
What I would like is a gadget that allows the user to decide if Unicode
range XX to YY in the edit box should be coloured in ZZ,
Here is a diff link to the page in question,
http://ru.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D…
The large print is the text of an encyclopedic article.
The small print is the list of literature references.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Donna Benjamin <donna(a)digitisethedawn.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:01 AM
Subject: A Digital Dawn - online today to celebrate IWD
To: digitisethedawn <digitisethedawn(a)gmail.com>
International Women's Day 2012
The Dawn is now available online.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/252
Thank you all so much for playing your part in making this happen.
--
Digitise The Dawn
The campaign to digitise Louisa Lawson's Journal for Australian Women
http://digitisethedawn.orghttp://twitter.com/digitisethedawn
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:31 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sanskrit, scripts and Wikisource
To: Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hoi,
Today the Sanskrit Wikisource will get WebFonts support. The Sanskrit
Wikipedia already has it for some time and it works well for them.
What will be different is that in the Wikisource, it will be possible
to have original texts in the script as it was of at the time of first
publication. According to the English language Wikipedia article and
according to the Omniglot website Sanskrit is written in many scripts.
When you google for the Brahmi script, you will find several fonts
that are freely available. What is needed for us to use it in the
Wikimedia Foundation is that these fonts are freely licensed and, that
they pass the technical requirements of the Localisation team.
Obviously when a font is available in WebFonts, it is available in any
wiki that has WebFonts enabled.
Thanks,
Gerard
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/sanskrit-sources-and-scripts.ht…http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/sanskrit-wikisource-will-get-we…
PS from my blogposts you will appreciate that there is an evolution in
the awareness of what WebFonts can do for you :)
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