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 Commonsticker has been a great thing for us because many of our images need to remain purposefully out-of-date in order to be appropriate to the text.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@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. :)
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