Alex's idea is very bold and I like it: my only fear is that it's too bold
and will never be implemented.
At the moment, we have not a proper alternative and independent environment
for working with scans: I wonder if that should be something related to
CropTool [1] or Commons in general.
What I would like to see *now* (for the good is better than the best, if
it's quicker)
is a working IA-Upload, with a good support for djvu (because the internet
archive's PDF is often very low quality).
From what I understood from Tpt, the IA-upload tool
should already do that,
but evidently there are issues at the moment.
For people who know how to run a script from command line,
a way to generate a djvu from IA is using Alex brollo's script [2]
Ideally, I would see this script integrated with the IA Upload tool, so we
can use the existing
IA > ia_upload tool > Commons > Wikisource
workflow, as usual. Many librarians are still using it.
Aubrey
[1]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/croptool/
[2]
https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:Bot/Programmi_
in_Python_per_i_bot/djvuCl.py
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Sam Wilson <sam(a)samwilson.id.au> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, at 07:36 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
I think that IA Upload tool is a critical step in the Wikisource workflow,
and I wonder if maybe Sam (as a Community Tech employee) could dedicate
some time to it.
Tpt can't maintain everything by himself...
For years, I've explained to *a lot* of GLAMs that uploading stuff on IA
and then using Wikisource is the way to do things, and I'm sure this is
the standard way in other places
too.
Yes, I agree: the IA-Commons-Wikisource workflow is a thing that should be
encouraged no end! :-)
As far as my work-programming time goes, you (I say 'you' but I just mean
'not-me', for CoI reasons) just need to get tickets onto the Community-Tech
board, then I can perhaps look at them. Which basically means they have to
contribute towards a Wishlist item.
There's Wishlist #44:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120785 - *Implement
an Internet Archive-like digitalization service.*
I reckon it'd be great to be able to at least upload a PDF or Djvu with no
text layer, and have it create one (either on the same file, or to upload a
new derived file).
—Sam
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