Hello guys, are you preparing for the contest? Can we use this mailing list to coordinate and understand how many contests will be there? It would be nice if we could coordinate, or at least use shared scripts and tools. Maybe it's better to have an overview of what is needed to run the contest. WHAT DO YOU NEED * a collection of books to be proofread this is really easy :-) * a Wikisource contest page like this one: https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Undicesimo_compleanno_di_Wikisour… * some social media coverage you can use social media etc., we always try to convince the it.wikipedia to use their SiteNotice... Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource sitenotice. * some awards if you have a national Wikimedia chapter, it's good to ask for few bucks. In Italy, we awarded 3 prizes with just 100 euros (50 euros worth book voucher as a 1st prize, 30 and 20 for 2nd and 3rd). * a way to count validated and proofread pages. If I'm not mistaken, the code is here: http://pastebin.com/Vk6ikCUg WHAT YOU NEED TO DECIDE * time In Italy, we wanted to go from 24 November at 00.01 till 1st December at 23.59. * scoring In it.source, we will probably award 3 points for every proofread page and 1 point for every validated page. * awards Last year, it.source only allowed to validate pages (and not to proofread). We awarded the first prize to the "user who validated more pages". The second and the third prizes instead were randomly extracted from the others: but the more pages a user validated, the more chances he had. Every validated page (or point) counts as a lottery ticket: the more I have, the more chances too. Cristian Cantoro made also this awesome tool to pick the 3 winners, we should adapt it for every contest: http://balist.es/wscontest/ I believe everything can be easily adapted if you both allow to proofread and validate at the same time I really hope many Wikisources will be present this year :-) Aubrey _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Hello guys, are you preparing for the contest? Can we use this mailing list to coordinate and understand how many contests will be there? It would be nice if we could coordinate, or at least use shared scripts and tools. Maybe it's better to have an overview of what is needed to run the contest. WHAT DO YOU NEED * a collection of books to be proofread this is really easy :-) * a Wikisource contest page like this one: https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Undicesimo_compleanno_di_Wikisour… * some social media coverage you can use social media etc., we always try to convince the it.wikipedia to use their SiteNotice... Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource sitenotice. * some awards if you have a national Wikimedia chapter, it's good to ask for few bucks. In Italy, we awarded 3 prizes with just 100 euros (50 euros worth book voucher as a 1st prize, 30 and 20 for 2nd and 3rd). * a way to count validated and proofread pages. If I'm not mistaken, the code is here: http://pastebin.com/Vk6ikCUg WHAT YOU NEED TO DECIDE * time In Italy, we wanted to go from 24 November at 00.01 till 1st December at 23.59. * scoring In it.source, we will probably award 3 points for every proofread page and 1 point for every validated page. * awards Last year, it.source only allowed to validate pages (and not to proofread). We awarded the first prize to the "user who validated more pages". The second and the third prizes instead were randomly extracted from the others: but the more pages a user validated, the more chances he had. Every validated page (or point) counts as a lottery ticket: the more I have, the more chances too. Cristian Cantoro made also this awesome tool to pick the 3 winners, we should adapt it for every contest: http://balist.es/wscontest/ I believe everything can be easily adapted if you both allow to proofread and validate at the same time I really hope many Wikisources will be present this year :-) Aubrey _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Carles Paredes Lanau < carlesparedes(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Have you tried HathiTrust ? [1] [2] In short, some libraries that have allowed Google to digitize their books realized the big mess that was done on metadata an scan quality and managed to create a kinda of fork with very powerful search capabilities plus a feedback space that you can request to re-digitize some books. They restrict the download in the very same way as Google Book Search does regarding year of publication and USA IP address. But using a third part download manager [3] you can get scans in JPEG/PNG up to "400%" resolution, what makes the OCR quality and DjVu generation very improved. I personally download from them using a Virtual Machine with a Hotspot Shield [4] installation, that provides me a IP from USA. If you or someone else needs, I will be glad to generate/regenerate DjVus for those titles (ATM I've generated few dozens to pt.wikisource, but I'm uploading those very slowly most to personal laziness xD ) [1] - http://www.hathitrust.org/ [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HathiTrust [3] - http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Hathi+Download+Helper?content=158702 [4] - http://www.hotspotshield.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l