I don't think the WSUG has failed! It's still a great focal point for
Wikisource discussions and activity. I talk about it whenever I can.
I guess in some ways you're right though. For example, in the recent
blog post
about
how much "WIkipedia loves books" there was no mention of Wikisource. So
there's still a way to go in raising Wikisource to the level of general
consciousness (in people, I mean, not some self-aware book transcribing
AI). But slowly, we get somewhere. I keep having conversations with
people who haven't heard of Wikisource—but who now have, and who usually
think it sounds good.
I'm happy to be slow and steady. I strive to one day over-take Project
Gutenberg! ;)
On Mon, 8 May 2017, at 03:13 PM, David Cuenca Tudela wrote:
Hi all,
I want to thank Carles for offering the scanner back to our community.
In the Wikisource Community User Group sometimes believed that by
creating an upper international organization, we would be able to
affect the things happening at the base of our movement and at the
top. But that has proved not to be true.>
The Wikisource Community User Group has failed to make a change in the
world, and it is a pity, because we all seemed to share an
understanding that our project would be very relevant for humanity.>
However, I have the strong feeling, and conviction that the approach
we followed so far was totally wrong. And I want to acknowledge that
general feeling. It is painful to accept, but to accept it will allow
us to do things better in the future by relying more on the knowledge
accumulated by chapters and thematic organizations about how to make
things work.>
As a co-promoter (with Aubrey) of the WSCUg, I want to apologize for
not being able to see this potential failure before. I hope that we
all can agree that we are all humans and that we are allowed to make
mistakes. Even if they are big ones. The intention was good, the
result not so good.>
Sorry about that.
Thanks for believing in the international wikisource community, a
bunch of hyper-idealists following a crazy librarian's dream of a
universal knowledge library... Let's take this impact, but let's keep
trying. Every time with more force. I am totally convinced that
together we can make it.>
Please, do provide input about how to reach our aspirations.
Cheers,
Micru
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:>> Thanks for this update on the DIY scanner
projects.
Carles Paredes Lanau, 07/05/2017 20:18:
You can check the books scanned in the following
link:
https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb586>> Only one? Or do you mean all
the 89 items in
https://archive.org/details/bibliotecammb ?
people from the museum weren't comfortable
working with it, since it
was very different from the scanners they used in the past.>>
Interesting.
Is there a description, even on the DIY scanner forums,
of what differences were most impactful for them?>>
Nemo
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