Wikisource Community User Group/2018 Report
Report of the Wikisource Community User Group for 2018.
Written by VIGNERON, Satdeep Gill and Tpt.
Events
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Wikimedia Conference 2018
[edit ]17-22 April in Berlin : Wikimedia Conference 2018/Wikisource Community User Group, poster, lightning talk and a meetup.
Wikimania
[edit ]18-22 July in Cape Town : Wikisource Meetup at Wikimania
- Nelson Mandela diary were made available during the Wikimania[1] .
GLAMWiki Conference
[edit ]3-5 November : State of the Wikisources (panel)
WikiCite 2018
[edit ]27-29 November : Discussion on Etherpad
Software
[edit ]Outside of the usual maintenance of ProofreadPage and ToolsForge tools heavily used by Wikisource (wsexport, ia-upload...) some technical improvements have been done in 2018:
- Broader adoption of Google Cloud OCR API. (OCR4Wikisource (Q30061329)) python tool is being used by various Wikisource communities. Recently, Indic-TechCom/Tools/IndicOCR has been created which allows on-wiki OCR in Indic language Wikisource.
- Active work on the migration of bibliographic metadata to Wikidata. The Wikisource MediaWiki extension has been created to make language links and the other project sidebar work with the edition/work Wikidata structure using has edition or translation (P747) and edition or translation of (P629). A user script has also been created to easily extract and import metadata contained in a Wikisource page to Wikidata based on a new microdata schema.
Community Wishlist Survey 2019
[edit ]The Wikisource community took part in the Community Wishlist Survey 2019 and cast 455 votes from 170 contributors for 11 Wikisource-related proposals [2] (on a total of 212 proposals). The top five are:
| Rank | Proposal | Proposer | Votes | Phabs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Improve export of electronic books | Consulnico | 113 | T178803 |
| 32 | Offer PDF export of original pagination of entire books | Alex brollo | 58 | T179790 |
| 39 | Create integrated interwiki mechanism for Wikisource | Ankry | 53 | T128173, T180304 Related: T180303 |
| 43 | XTools Edit Counter for Wikisource | Jayantanth | 49 | T173012 |
| 73 | Interface to display two (or more) different text from same (or different) wikisource side by side | C933103 | 37 |
It's the first time that a Wikisource proposal make it to the top ten. The involvement of the community was also more high than the previous years, a lot of message were sent through multiples channels (mailing list and social media) and there is now high hope for technical solutions.
Activities
[edit ]Some things that happened on the Wikisource projects.
Milestones:
[edit ]- Creation of the Basque Wikisource (March 2018).
- Creation of the Piedmontese Wikisource (June 2018)
Other
[edit ]The post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog Meet some featured Wikimedia volunteers from India (by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, July 3rd, 2018) mentions several times Wikisources.
Bengali Wikisource awareness campaign videos
- Maillist stats:
| Month | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of messages | 32 | 7 | 24 | 42 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 22 | 18 | 6 |
References
[edit ]- ↑ Wikipedia volunteers and free knowledge leaders gather in Cape Town for the first annual "Wikimania" conference in sub-Saharan Africa, By Wikimedia Foundation, July 20th, 2018
- ↑ 12 proposals if you count Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Wiktionary/Insert attestation exploiting Wikisource as a corpus (more related to Wiktionary but rely on Wikisource).
