I think djvu sounds wonderful but I don't that many
people understand how to use it. I certainly don't.
Is this the format Commons would like us to be using
for scanned books?
About how WS uses commons, it is not consistant across
all subdomains. I think the de.WS uses it most
heavily but they do not participate on this list.
en.WS has decided to put scans on Commons as well but
we are still stumbling about it. I would very
interested in working the kinks out of this with
people who are familar with Commons. I have a book I
have begun to scan but haven't uploaded yet because I
am uncertain of the best way to go about it. I do
feel that in the long-term we need to see all scans
on Commons so that WS can really grow into it's full
potential as a workspace for creating free
translations.
Besides hosting scans needed for proofreading, WS also
use Commons as other WMF projects do to host
illustrations. Since our illustrations are usually
things cut out of the scanned pages we tend to not use
Commons a resource to find things so much as host
things. In the case of reference works many of these
illustrations can be also added into Wikipedia
projects. Commonsticker has been a great thing for us
because many of our images need to remain purposefully
out-of-date in order to be appropriate to the text.
BirgitteSB
--- Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
We are trying to write a press release for the
impending one millionth
file to be uploaded at Commons.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/1M
I thought it would be cool if we include a
parapgraph or two about how
Commons helps Wikisource in particular. I know DJVu
files have that
cool 'next/previous page' thing if nothing else.
Something making
mention of open standards/open file format and how
this is useful for
projects in multiple languages would be cool (the
first djvu I came
across, I noticed had Russian and English, for
example...).
I recall Danny doing a bit of a writeup on
Wikisource recently; if no
one else is inspired, I'm sure we could crib
something from there, but
if anyone feels like it, it would be great. :)
thanks,
Brianna
user:pfctdayelise
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