Lars Aronsson a écrit :
It is increasingly common to add books to Wikisource
by finding a PDF or Djvu file, uploading it to Commons,
and then to create an Index: page on Wikisource
for proofreading.
But this would be much easier if:
1) The fields (author, title, etc.) of the Index
page were filled in from the data already given
on Commons. (Yes, those could be wrong or need
additional care, but this could always be
edited afterwards, if initial values are fetched
from Commons.)
the problem is that djvu pages on common
do not have a parsable format.
2) The <pagelist/> tag was already in the
"pages" box.
that's easy.
I did it for sites using
http://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:IndexForm.js
3) All pages were created in automatically
with the OCR text from Commons, instead
of leaving a long list of red links. (This
would require the text for each page to be
extracted, something that pdftotext can do
in seconds, but Commons takes weeks to do.)
I do not understand what you mean.
What you describe is _already_ implemented :
when a page is created, its text is extracted
from the text layer of the corresponding djvu or pdf.
All you need to do is create djvu files with a proper text layer.