Re: [Wikisource-l] [Bug 57813] Google Books > Internet Archive > Commons upload cycle

2014-03-04 Thread Andrea Zanni
Rohit Dua just wrote to me regarding that project (I was one of the possible mentors). if one of you is technically skilled and wants to help, there is plenty of room for that :-) Aubrey On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Luiz Augusto wrote: > FYI \o/ > Em 03/03/2014 15:13, escreveu: > >> Rohit

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Bug 57813] Google Books > Internet Archive > Commons upload cycle

2014-03-04 Thread Alex Brollo
A suggestion: don't focus on Google only. Generalize the tool for other sources. There are plenty of libraries as Opal that share much better images to grab. The quality of Google shared scans is often very poor. (PS: I presume, I could grab the whole Alma Mater library content... but presently I'

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Bug 57813] Google Books > Internet Archive > Commons upload cycle

2014-03-04 Thread Jayanta Nath
Yes please generized the tool for other website also ! As per Indic wikisource concern we are very depend in Digital libray of India and more ! Jayanta Calcutta On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Alex Brollo wrote: > A suggestion: don't focus on Google only. Generalize the tool for other > sources. The

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Press Release: Wikimedia Indonesia Receive Grant from The Ford Foundation to Preserve Indonesian Culture By Content Digitalization

2014-03-04 Thread Luiz Augusto
Wikisource specific info at http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Proyek_Penciptaan_dan_Digitalisasi_Konten/Rencana_Anggaran -- Forwarded message -- From: Isabella Apriyana Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:56 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Press Release: Wikimedia Indonesia Receive Grant from The F

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikitech-l] python bot/script with javascript as frontend

2014-03-04 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
English Wikisource had a bot which would perform OCR on request by a user when the user pressed a button in the Wikisource website interface. Is that like what you are trying to achieve? I think it used categories as a work queue. JavaScript placed the page in a category, and the bot picked up th