Best regards,
Dimce Grozdanoski
Wikimedia Macedonia

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 <Dimce Grozdanoski> 12:00:50 +0000,
Hi all,

I'm new to wikisource.

I look for help how to upload large collection of books, about 130
volumes of books in Macedonian and it's translation in English.

If some one have some suggestions how to do it at the best way in short
time.

Best regards,
Dimce Grozdanoski
Wikimedia Macedonia




Hi Dimce,

==Upload==
* Djvu or PDF files with scanned text layers are best.
* I am presuming that all works are in the public domain in both the US
and the place of publication
* (if previous is okay) Files are uploaded to Commons, and we look to use
the {{book}} template [1]
* There are some reasonable instructions and explanations at English
Wikipedia for many aspects.[2]
This gets the files in place, and if we have used {{book}} the meta data
available

==Local creations==
For each work an Index: file will need to be created. Not sure about
Macedonian wiki, but for enWS, putting a list of the works uploaded to
commons, or pointing to your uploads, and asking for help at
"Scriptorium"[3] will elicit assistance. BUT you say Macdeonian and English
translations, so presumably both are not on the same scanned page.  This
adds some complexity, so we need some understanding of what specifically is
available.

If you the files are big, and/or you have upload issues, then with that
many files, they can be burnt onto media and sent to WMF for upload.  Note
this will take effort and coordination.


[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:
[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Proofreading
[3] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium

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