Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggesting tasks for people with free time

2014-11-09 Thread Gordon Joly
Just to follow up on what I said about Windows Mobile 8 (on phones). The OCR capability is built into the phone, and when the image arrives on live.com, the text is there (for a quick check, copy and paste). So the text of blue plaques, headstones, memorials, foundation stones, etc can be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggesting tasks for people with free time

2014-11-02 Thread Gordon Joly
Much as I find it difficult to report this, my Windows phone takes images of text and when they arrive at live.com (OneDrive) they have been OCR'ed. The quality is very high (above 90% of the characters are correct). Gordo ___ Wikimedia UK mailing

[Wikimediauk-l] Suggesting tasks for people with free time

2014-10-31 Thread Stevie Benton
Hello everyone, Something that we've spoken about before is creating a list of suggested jobs for people with varying amounts of time. It's about offering ways for people to help our open knowledge mission in as little as a couple of minutes, right the way through to having a couple of hours or

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Suggesting tasks for people with free time

2014-10-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
Like this: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/help-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons-transcribe-text/ ? On Oct 31, 2014 4:51 PM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hello everyone, Something that we've spoken about before is creating a list of suggested jobs for people with varying