Title of session: Wikisource intro session
Session description: A discussion session to talk about Wikisource development, including ProofreadPage, the All-and-every-Wikisource extension, the Wikisource technical community, and what we are working on and would like to prioritise.
Username for contact: SWilson, VIGNERON
Session duration (25 or 50 min): 25 min
Session type (presentation, workshop, discussion, etc.): discussion
Language of session (English, Arabic, etc.): English (French possible)
Prerequisites (some Python, etc.): almost none
Any other details to share?: We'll likely have a few remote participants as well, so hopefully will have good two-way AV setup.
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Notes from session
Wikisource intro session
Date and time:
Relevant links
- Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363618
- Session slides:
- (any more?)
Presenter
[[User:VIGNERON]]
[[User:SWilson (WMF)|SWilson]]
Participants
15 people,
Sam
Nicolas
Inaki
Boz
Nemo
Alberto
Waldir
Parti
Mahir
Ben
DomLab
Parthiv
WMDE-Fisch
Mell
Danny
Graham
- Online --
Anmol
Kuldeep Singh (Kuldeepburjbhalaike)
Satdeep
Notes
Show of hands - who's familiar, who's contributed.
What is Wikisource
Major work
ProofreadPage extension
Documentation for tools, gadgets, and user scripts
Important tasks for the hackathon
Documenting things on toolhub
Why? No priortity on what is to be worked on
Make communities aware of the work happening across Wikisources
Open discussion, favourite tools, things to work on
Mahir256
Sanghkalak (collection) on bengali wikisource
Search engine for wikisource
All in Bengali, but can be ported to other languages
https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/tools/toolforge-sangkalak
Waldir
Make interface easier for beginners
Collect user feedback (user testing sessions) on how UI can be more user friendly
Interface to facilitate creation of wikidata items for books (work, edition, author, Wikisource sitelink)
Alberto
Lots of tools broken on Wikisource because of GridEngine change
Nicolas: phetools, matchandsplit for example
Pages without scans
Context by Nicolas: earlier text was copy pasted from Gutenberg. Only afterwards, scans were integrated
Requires a disambiguation page?
Waldir: Propose session to discuss this topic itself?
Anmol Wassan (User:Wassan.anmol)
Anyone who is interested in documenting BUB2 tool on toolhub, please feel free to claim this task - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364082
PRs for the BUB2 are in review!
Reviewers: Anmol (User:Wassan.anmol) and Parthiv (User:TheProtonade)
PDL integration
Wikidata integration
Future
Integrate IA
The djvu file format debate!
PDF is an open format (say from IA), not so open for PDFs created on, say, a Mac
User:Nemo_bis
Wikisource subdomain page is not being updated