Wikisource Community meetings/January2023EtherpadNotes
Original Etherpad https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikisourcecommunitymeetingjanuary2023
January 2023 Etherpad notes[edit]
Code of Conduct https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct
Participants (14)[edit]
- NANöR
- Parthiv
- Jim Hayes
- Sam Wilson (User:Samwilson)
- Satdeep Gill
- Kolawole Lawal
- Adel Nehaoua (User:Nehaoua)
- Alberto Leoncio (User:Albertoleoncio)
- Sohom Datta (Volunteer developer)
- Bukola James (User:Bukky658)
- Pungkas (User: Empat Tilda)
- Kinneret Gordon (WMF)
- Orbilius
- Agus
Agenda (feel free to edit!)[edit]
- Transition from Triage meetings to Community meetings
- Community, Events, Collaborations etc.
- Ideas for Wikisource proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023
- Upcoming GLAM-Wiki Conference
- How about a Wikisource Conference in 2024?
- NANöR: I think it is the time to come the communities together and discuss the future of this project.
- Encouraging user groups to orgniz activities on Arabic Wikisource. Collaboration between Wikimedia Sudan Library and the Library of African and Asian studies institute at the University of Khartoum. Training to librarians and members. - NANöR and Adel
- More than 20 participants. https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1:%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%A9_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AB_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A
- In partnership with Wiki World Heritage User Group
- More 1500 pages
- Build a small and sustainable community
- OCR
- But worked on World Heritage documents and OCR didn't work well with manuscript books and we were forced to retype all text
- Bukola James - My proposal suggestion would be to create more awareness for the use of WikiSource among librarians in Nigeria. We could use a train the trainer approach.
- Most librarians are not familiar with Wikisource
- Need for more mentorships and training
- Guides/Video resources
- https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:What_is_Wikisource%3F
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Instructional_videos_on_using_Wikisource
- creating resource is a good project for a confernce
- Technical projects/tasks
- Progress of Wikisource EditInSequence and gathering feedback- Sohom
- Should this be User-script integratable?
- Yes, for scripts like Clean-up
- Page level colours?
- Possible
- Edit conflicts?
- When is the implementation programmed?
- Finishing up some development. Will start rolling out soon. In 3-4 weeks
- For all users or a preference?
- Satdeep -
- Feedback: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_EditInSequence
- Google not indexing Wikisource properly for years (T325607) - Alberto
- New sysop on Portuguese Wikisource. basically abandonned.
- Google is not indexing new pages.
- Sam suggests https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Wikisource
- Transkribus Partnership (Kinneret)
- https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/
- Text and handwriting recognition
- 60,000 free credits
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Loves_Manuscripts
- Should this be User-script integratable?
- Progress of Wikisource EditInSequence and gathering feedback- Sohom