I frequently work offline on he.wikisource. I download the entire pdf file
from commons to my hard drive, and OCR the page I need myself. One can use
the OCR of wikisource and download the text too, I guess, page by page.
Then I proof the text in a Word document, open to the lower half of my
screen, with the pdf open on the upper half of the screen, where I go to
the page I need with acrobat reader, and scroll both windows down or up as
needed.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:21 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz <
psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:
Le 24/03/2018 à 16:22, billinghurst a écrit :
Though that would defeat the purpose of online proofreading with account
verification. Some of the true value of our online process is that
contribution builds a level of trust and knowledge and that is reflected in
both our patrolling and the allocation of autopatrolled status.
How providing tools to make batch work offline would interfere in anyway
with that? Once the work is done, it can be uploaded to Wikisource with
whichever account the user want.
Actually, to my mind, the main benefit of the online aspect is the peer to
peer production model. Also there is no need of a central node carrying
accounts to take into account the trust given to a particular contributor.
There is digital signature technologies such as gpg for example. Having a
central node with a web interface just makes things easier for most users,
it doesn't improve the trustability of the environment. On the contrary,
with a single point of failure, we actually rely on a weaker solution on
this regard.
Also how would you have access to templates, and components like that
from off-line?
Well, that just show how innefecient are this tools to continue to
contribute while being offline. It's allways possible to install Mediawiki
and download required templates, but currently this process seems way to
complicated, doesn't it.
Also we generally cannot download the images separately as that is usually
part of the later clean-up where people have the technical skills.
I'm afraid the term "image" misguided your answer. It's seems you
interpreted that as picture elements from files, while I was talking about
this files themselves.
So yes, there is the capacity to have the text and proofread the text,
that actual checking the text against the image is not the sole component
of proofreading, and further it would not be at all helpful for validation.
There is nothing magic about working directly in a browser. People do
download and upload all the required material anyway, but on a page per
page base. The result is just as valid as it is done when transactions are
operated on a file repository level.
Cheers
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