Please be aware of - and where appropriate, lend your support to - this Individual Engagement Grant proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/PlanetMath_Books_Project -- which I've put together with PlanetMath contributor Raymond Puzio.
Inspired by the PlanetMath Exchange project on Wikipedia, our aim with this proposal is to improve the PlanetMath platform and make it easy to produce mathematics textbooks, for export to places like Wikisource. In particular, part of the grant proposal focuses on developing novel approaches to mathematics OCR and proofreading, using a combination of off-the-shelf and new open source systems.
Your endorsement of the grant proposal would mean a lot!
Please note: although we are targeting English initially in with the proposal (as a demo), this will be relevant to other language communities as well. I've announced the project on the English language Wikisource Scriptorum, but if you can spread the word to other language communities, please do. And please let me know if you have any questions as well!
Can I just mention a Latex MediaWiki extension I discovered at Wikimania this year? http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Lee_Worden_Research_Wik...
(paper: http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Cascades_Paper extensione: http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Lee_Worden_Research_Wik... and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WorkingWiki)
I think it's awesome: you can directly compile the PDF within the wiki, so you can write and edit the Latex file collaboratively on wiki. I would love to have this extension on Wikisource, but I heard that it has security problems. Maybe you can find someone interested working on it during your IEG. Me and Micru did like that in our IEG, harnessing the Google Summer of Code. Now there is something called Google Code In, maybe it's useful enough.
Aubrey
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Joe Corneli holtzermann17@gmail.comwrote:
Please be aware of - and where appropriate, lend your support to - this Individual Engagement Grant proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/PlanetMath_Books_Project -- which I've put together with PlanetMath contributor Raymond Puzio.
Inspired by the PlanetMath Exchange project on Wikipedia, our aim with this proposal is to improve the PlanetMath platform and make it easy to produce mathematics textbooks, for export to places like Wikisource. In particular, part of the grant proposal focuses on developing novel approaches to mathematics OCR and proofreading, using a combination of off-the-shelf and new open source systems.
Your endorsement of the grant proposal would mean a lot!
Please note: although we are targeting English initially in with the proposal (as a demo), this will be relevant to other language communities as well. I've announced the project on the English language Wikisource Scriptorum, but if you can spread the word to other language communities, please do. And please let me know if you have any questions as well!
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Hi Aubrey:
I know WorkingWiki (in fact Lee Worden is on the PlanetMath Advisory Board, although we're not using WorkingWiki actively in PlanetMath). I can see this as an "alternate route" to the Book Exchange proposal, but I'm not sure there would be direct advantages to using WorkingWiki instead of Planetary. As you point out, it could also be done "in addition to", if we could find a contributor who wanted to explore a parallel route.
Joe
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:
Can I just mention a Latex MediaWiki extension I discovered at Wikimania this year? http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Lee_Worden_Research_Wik...
(paper: http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Cascades_Paper extensione: http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Lee_Worden_Research_Wik... and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WorkingWiki)
I think it's awesome: you can directly compile the PDF within the wiki, so you can write and edit the Latex file collaboratively on wiki. I would love to have this extension on Wikisource, but I heard that it has security problems. Maybe you can find someone interested working on it during your IEG. Me and Micru did like that in our IEG, harnessing the Google Summer of Code. Now there is something called Google Code In, maybe it's useful enough.
Aubrey
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Joe Corneli holtzermann17@gmail.com wrote:
Please be aware of - and where appropriate, lend your support to - this Individual Engagement Grant proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/PlanetMath_Books_Project -- which I've put together with PlanetMath contributor Raymond Puzio.
Inspired by the PlanetMath Exchange project on Wikipedia, our aim with this proposal is to improve the PlanetMath platform and make it easy to produce mathematics textbooks, for export to places like Wikisource. In particular, part of the grant proposal focuses on developing novel approaches to mathematics OCR and proofreading, using a combination of off-the-shelf and new open source systems.
Your endorsement of the grant proposal would mean a lot!
Please note: although we are targeting English initially in with the proposal (as a demo), this will be relevant to other language communities as well. I've announced the project on the English language Wikisource Scriptorum, but if you can spread the word to other language communities, please do. And please let me know if you have any questions as well!
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