Hi Sam,
Congratulations for joining the community tech team.
And also many many thanks for what all you have done for the OCR issue of
Indic Wikisource communities. It's because of amazing people like you,
Kaldari and Shrinivasan, the crisis is almost over and the projects have
got the much-needed momentum.
Best wishes,
Bodhisattwa
On Sep 16, 2016 12:53 PM, "Thomas Tanon" <thomaspt(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
Hello Sam,
Congratulations! That's amazing! I really hope you will be able to keep
making the Wikisource tech backlog lower [1].
Congrats again,
Thomas
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikisource/
Le 16 sept. 2016 à 05:23, Sam Wilson
<sam(a)samwilson.id.au> a écrit :
Hi all,
I've recently started working on the Community Tech team
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech at the Wikimedia
Foundation. So I just wanted to say hi and that I'm really excited to
be
able to work on Wikimedia code full-time! :-)
Community Tech is all about helping build tools that support
contributors, and basically takes its work-list from the annual
Community Wishlist Survey:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
For the last couple of weeks I've been working on a tool to bring
better
OCR to indic-language Wikisources, via
Google's Cloud Vision API:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Google_OCR
I'm not at all exclusively working on Wiksource stuff of course, not by
a long shot. But that's still where my personal interest lies, and so
if
anyone's got any ideas about future software
development that we need
then I'm keen to help if I can. And this year's Wishlist Survey will be
happening before too long, so get ready to list stuff there!
Lastly, please be gentle with me as I try to figure out how to shift to
life not-as-a-volunteer! (Although I'm still a volunteer too.) I'm
trying very hard to be transparent and professional and not blur the
various roles.... gets confusing though! :-)
Thanks,
Sam.
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