(Not that this is not self-evident)
First steps have to be * Get the digital copies * Upload to commons and get all the copyright stuff done (so we can keep the deletion maggots away) * Get the index pages created, with pagelists
After that it would seem that there needs to be gamification, and what is the 'reward'.
Our Indian colleagues have given us some great examples of what has been done, and some of the benefits that have come from it. So what follows is some random thoughts just to put out there, and to be plus'd or minuse'd by the community as they see fit. This is just a stream of green hat thinking ...
As there is no OCR, we could look to a scoring system based on a combination of ... * characters added (filesize increase) * starting a page * advancing to proofread status * advancing to validate status
We could look to * individual scoring * team scoring
An issue for team scoring is that if we had this overt for schools, classes, age groups, then we have a point of identification, and possibly some problem for predatory behaviour on kids. So teams would need to have a level of self-ownership. Using the previous conversation in the thread about education tool, there could be a value in team scoring availability in that (through facebook) it takes the gamification outside of Wikisource, in that teams can self-organise. We would just need to organise to enable teams and a scoring system.
We could give 'awards' for individual scores, and acknowledge teams. That said, what scope is there for getting some recognition from the releasing agency of the works for any team achievement?
Also to note that this is going to be a long term project, we want to have lots of milestone awards. Recognition by month, and by year. Looking to celebrate 1k 10k, 100k edit +++ As WMF is trying to push into these markets, one would hope that we could look to getting a series of microgrants/microawards that could be utilised for some recognition as a final goal.
So we would need to find some vols in the broader space who can help us build some tools, or maybe that is part of a thought in a grant application. Any tool we would want to be generic so that all places can look to utilise for any other gamification.
Anyway, just my thought bubbles.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Yann Forget yannfo@gmail.com wrote:
FYI. Yann
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravishankar ravidreams@gmail.com Date: 2014-08-30 20:10 GMT+05:30 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] 20 volumes (8376 pages) of Tamil Encylopedia released under Creative Commons To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
Tamil Development Board (an autonomous institution under Government of Tamilnadu) releases its Encyclopedia (10 volumes, 7407 pages) and Children's Encyclopedia (10 volumes, 969 pages) under Creative Commons license. Tamil Wikipedians lead by Prof. C. R. Selvakumar and Prof. P. R. Nakkeeran, (Director, Tamil Virtual Academy) spearheaded this initiative coinciding with Tamil Wikipedia's 10 years celebrations.
An official confirmation (in Tamil) can be seen at
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Letter_from_Tamil_Develo...
Scanned copies of these works are already available at
http://tamilvu.org/library/kulandaikal/lku00/html/lku00ind.htm
At Tamil Wikipedia, we are discussing how we can get this content typed and transferred to WikiSource. Doing so can be a good model to encourage more such works to be released in public domain.
Following are two options I can think of:
- Volunteers type all the content. Besides taking years to complete,
this won't do justice for the value of time of volunteers who can do more valuable work than typing mechanically.
A program like IT@School present in Kerala or a contest can encourage more people to join this effort but not all communities can't emulate this model successfully.
- Request WMF to give a grant to the owner of the content and let
them hand over the typed content to Wikisource volunteers who will upload and wikify the content.
This will ensure maintaining the spirit of volunteerism and yet getting the work done in a professional and time bound manner.
Numerous works in Wikisource are such ready made content uploaded already in the web through other projects like Project Gutenberg.
If providing grants to non-Wikimedia organizations is an issue, a grant towards this can be given to community / chapter who will then outsource the typing work.
I welcome community's input on any other model for this as India has vast amount of literature and works like this are waiting to be transfered to Wikisource. This is one area where we can add lot of content to Wiki projects at once.
Ravi
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