Indic Wikisource Community/Newsletter/October-December 2021

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Issue 07, OctoberDecember 2021

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This issue is the 7th newsletter of the Indic Wikisource Community.

In this quarter, total 17 books were re-licensed to CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. The books are in Marathi, Hindi and English Language, facilitated by Subodh Kulkarni.

Below are the proofreading developments of the last three months April 2021-June 2021
  • Tamil Wikisource reaches 1 lakh page proofread milestone in the month of June 2021.
  • No visible development is shown in Odia and Malayalam Wikisource.
  • In Sanskrit and Kannada Wikisource, they have the text of 23173 and 21152 numbers without scan page supported text exist respectively, it shows their content quality low and it is increasing day by day. The community should work in this area in the coming months.
  • As per proofread stats the top 3 communities are as below.
    • Tamil (First)
    • Telugu (Second)
    • Bengali (third)
Languages Link Indexed counts Validated Counts
English(en) English 20019 4887
French(fr) français 19991 3456
Polish(pl) polski 4295 2218
Italian(it) italiano 2650 1101
Tamil(ta) தமிழ் 2252 224
Assamese(as) অসমীয়া 313 142
Telugu(te) తెలుగు 643 79
Bangla(bn) বাংলা 4472 76
Gujarati(gu) ગુજરાતી 154 79
Marathi(mr) मराठी 163 40
Hindi(hi) हिन्दी 426 32
Kannada(kn) ಕನ್ನಡ 345 18
Odia(or) ଓଡ଼ିଆ 85 19
Punjabi(pa) ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 246 16
Malayalam(ml) മലയാളം 348 0
This table shows the number of pages that have been proofread using the ProofreadPage extension, at 12 Indic Wikisource subdomains.

Notes:

  • The "proofread" column counts all the pages that have been proofread : [category q3] + [category q4]
  • Language subdomains are ranked by the number of page verifications : [category q3] + 2x[category q4]
  • The "with scans" column counts pages whose text is transcluded from the "Page:" namespace.
  • The "percent" column shows the percentage of texts backed with scans, excluding disambiguation pages from the total:

Percent (%) = [with scans]/([with scans] + [without scans])

Statistics on Friday, 07. January 2022 06:00AM

Page namespace Main namespace
Language All pagesa Without text Not proofread Problematic Proofread Validated All pages With scans Without scans %
as 49842 942 17462 337 5593 0 2005 754 1251 37.61
bn 698193 8412 632729 959 56093 14087 9381 9371 0 100.00
gu 31325 487 3821 3 27014 19975 7524 4164 3360 55.34
hi 140570 0 0 53 11296 11296 4035 4035 0 100.00
kn 62902 1105 53852 87 7858 5434 21393 238 21155 1.11
ml 47847 2131 12329 124 33263 718 7186 1033 6153 14.38
mr 58651 114 41397 1 17051 5336 2161 660 1501 30.54
or 7681 78 1619 5 5979 5428 1079 300 774 27.93
pa 44591 671 14280 110 29530 14053 741 612 129 82.59
sa 86582 336 52984 27 33234 11191 24598 1125 23473 4.57
ta 411721 0 285029 510 125847 64555 14237 9651 4582 67.81
te 92350 2147 16435 251 73517 39415 15659 6375 9284 40.71


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