Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] seeking help with Hindi projects in Wikisource...

2016-08-11 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, On 11 August 2016 at 15:10, Mardetanha wrote: > best person would be Bodhisattwa Mandal > > Mardetanha > A, I doubt that. I have not contributed in Hindi Wikisource (which is still in multilingual Wikisource) ever. > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:10 AM, John Mark V

[Wikisource-l] WikiConference India 2016

2016-07-29 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Here is the final program schedule of upcoming WikiConference India 2016. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Programs There is a track for Wikisource on 6th August, where 5 Wikisourcers from 3 Indic communities will have their presentations and conduct workshops. Regar

[Wikisource-l] A Blog post by Wikisourcer Hrishikes Sen

2016-07-25 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hello, This is a blog post by Bengali and English Wikisourcer Hrishikes Sen https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/25/why-i-wikisource/ Regards, -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource explainer video

2016-06-23 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, The Explainer Video workshop just ended was amazing. During the workshop, I created a very small welcome video for newcomers. Hope it would help some. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikisource_-_short_explanatory_video.webm Regards, -- Bodhisattwa ___

Re: [Wikisource-l] Spoken Wikisource for Wikiradio

2016-06-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
> > > And now > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/Spoken_Wikisource/fr > \o/ > (with a lot of poetry inside and a little bit of Nietzsche ; I'll add > other files when I'll have enough time) > > Cdlt, ~nicolas > > And also started the Bengali Wikisource station with a poem o

[Wikisource-l] Spoken Wikisource for Wikiradio

2016-06-07 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, As you all know, that we have Wikiradio with us, which transmits real-time audio service via the Internet as synchronized set of tracks. * https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio/ FYI, I have just started two new Spoken Wikisource specific stations to the radio. * https://meta.wikimedia.org

[Wikisource-l] Request for update tesseract-ben package at tool labs

2016-05-23 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Can anyone please update the tesseract-ben package at tool labs? Its a community need in Bengali Wikisource. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117711 Regards, -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://l

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource Meetup in Wikimania 2016

2016-05-10 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Wikisourcers from different language communities, who are attending Wikimania this year in Esino Lario, are requested to visit the Wikisource meet-up page. - https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups/Wikisource There is an etherpad link also to sort out the agenda of the meet-up

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Conference report

2016-05-03 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Thanks for your great effort, Andrea. This really gives hope to the global Wikisource community. Regards, Bodhisattwa On 3 May 2016 at 12:53, Alex Brollo wrote: > It's impressive to realize that it.source is a tiny community inside a > larger, but nevertheless "tiny community" (the whole w

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikimania: Call for posters

2016-03-06 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi all, 2016-03-06 16:59 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni : > Of course I'll be there too. > An of course we should find a way, as always, to meet as wikisourcians in > Esino. > I'll be there, so at least there are 3 of us :-) > I will be there too. Thanks to the scholarship grant. Its great opportunity f

Re: [Wikisource-l] Large djvu files from IA

2016-03-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Nemo, > Looks like they scrapped the DjVu and "Text PDF" format, I don't know > whether intentionally. You should ask in their forum: > https://archive.org/iathreads/post-new.php?forum=texts (be kind!). > > Just saw this forum post in IA. It seems IA is going to stop creating djvu files soon.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Large djvu files from IA

2016-03-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
On 1 March 2016 at 18:44, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Link? > https://archive.org/details/bub_gal_ark_12148_bpt6k1040628d https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_lmhDcAAJ https://archive.org/details/bub_man_adee2c3832c5798abc76e7b65f62ef4e and many others. I have been noticing it for last 2-3 day

Re: [Wikisource-l] Large djvu files from IA

2016-02-29 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
n once managed once to > upload a 300 MB file. If you need help, please give a list of files on > my Commons talk page. > > Regards, > > Yann > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yann > > 2016-02-26 20:38 GMT+01:00 Bodhisattwa Mandal >: > > Hi, > > &

[Wikisource-l] Large djvu files from IA

2016-02-26 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Is it possible to transfer large djvu files (more than 100 mb) from Internet Archive to Commons? I have tried IA-upload and url2commons tool but not succeeded. Regards, -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org h

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2016-02-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
ds, On Feb 22, 2016 1:32 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote: > Bodhisattwa Mandal, 21/02/2016 17:13: > >> we don't have other options but to use the Google OCR tool. >> > > This is not true, of course. There is always an alternative, the question &

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2016-02-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
far as we can. We will find other ways to do it. Regards, On Feb 21, 2016 9:04 PM, "Mathieu Stumpf Guntz" < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > > > Le 20/02/2016 13:07, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : > >> Bodhisattwa Mandal, 19/02/2016 18:02: >> >&g

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2016-02-19 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am happy to inform, that Shrinivasan has created a python script to >> automate the process i

Re: [Wikisource-l] BUB is back

2016-02-09 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
The BUB queue is standing still for a quite a few days. Maintenance of those files have already been done in IA, but they are not removed from the queue, so, cant understand BUB is working or not. Regards, -- Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wi

[Wikisource-l] InterWikiTransclusion.js for Bengali Wikisource

2016-02-02 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I need help from admins of old WS, regarding the topic in the following link https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:InterWikiTransclusion.js#bn.wikisource It has been reported in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124295 Thanks, -- Bodhisattwa ___

Re: [Wikisource-l] Template help needed

2016-01-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Great. Thanks for the link. :-) Regards, Bodhisattwa ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Template help needed

2016-01-18 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
d > here: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Merging_two_texts_into_a_single_reference > > Ankry > > > ___ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikis

[Wikisource-l] Template help needed

2016-01-17 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I need a template solution for the following proof-reading problem I faced in Bengali Wikisource. There is a reference in Page 1 which is continued in Page 2. I have used the following code in Page 1:- Text of Page 1 reference and text of Page 2 reference It was okay while proof-reading, b

Re: [Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi , Aubrey, I understand. Nemo, yeah, I was talking about a bot which can use the said IA upload tool. And no, its not so hard to use it manually. Just asking. No issues. :-) Regards, -- Bodhisattwa Mandal ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource

[Wikisource-l] Questions

2016-01-11 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Two questions- 1) Is there any bot running which can use the IA upload tool to transfer files from Internet Archive to Commons? I see lots and lots of public domain files in IA but they are not present in Commons. Its next to impossible to be done manually. 2) Is there any bot running, which

Re: [Wikisource-l] BUB is back

2016-01-08 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
o/wikisource-l >> > > ___ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > -- Bodhisattwa Mandal Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia ''

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2016-01-05 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
anguages without any real luck until now. >> Until such a tool appears on the horizon, the Google facility is just >> okay to be used. >> >> Especially so, because we are anyway dealing with 'free' input and output >> material. >> >> -Viswaprabha &g

Re: [Wikisource-l] Community Wishlist Survey and Wikisource

2015-12-16 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Thanks Andrea for your reply in Wikimedia-I thread. Thanks to all, who participated in the survey and voted for us. But the community wishlist survey for this year is over now and no Wikisource proposal succeeded to get a place in top 10, we are back to pavilion once again. Now, as we made

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
this about "SaaSS": > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html > > So, to build a true, excellent and indipendent "wikisource multilingual > OCR service" would be a better solution. > > Alex > > 2015-12-01 16:06 GMT+01:00 Bodhisatt

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
I can say that Bengali is not included in FineReader version of IA. Regards, Bodhisattwa On 1 Dec 2015 20:57, "Bodhisattwa Mandal" wrote: > Hi Nemo, > > Please follow this link also, > > > http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/googles-optical-character-recognition-software-no

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Nemo, Please follow this link also, http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/googles-optical-character-recognition-software-now-works-with-all-south-asian-languages Regards, Bodhisattwa On 1 Dec 2015 20:29, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote: > Thanks for posting about the topic. Which indic languages are

Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Nemo, Thanks for your interest. You can find the list of Google OCR supported languages in the following link - https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en Regards, Bodhisattwa Thanks for posting about the topic. Which indic languages are we talking about exactly? Are they included i

[Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

2015-12-01 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource#Tool_to_use_Google_OCRs_in_Indic_language_Wikisource FYI, this proposal was also accepted as a highest priority need at the 2015 Wikisource Conference in Vienna. (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs) Regards -- Bodhisattwa Mandal

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, During the recent Wikisource Conference in Vienna, need for global gadgets, templates and module was discussed and already it has been reported in Phabricator ( https :// phabricator.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikisource-l] Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

2015-11-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, I failed to understand how splitting Wikisource projects in different languages had been a mistake and how that affected communities badly. As part of Bengali Wikisource community, I can only say, we are doing well and we don't want to return back to old multilingual Wikisource. Regards, Bod

Re: [Wikisource-l] Template Wikipedia

2015-11-26 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
uot;Tobias Schönberg" wrote: > @Bodhisattwa Mandal > > bn-Wikisource does not seem to have a Template:Wikipedia: > > - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15632185 > > But Benghali Wikipedia seems to have 2 templates that link to WikiSource > (Offtopic: Should they be merg

Re: [Wikisource-l] Template Wikipedia

2015-11-25 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi Tobias, It will be great if you run the bot for Bengali Wikisource. Thanks, Bodhisattwa On 25 Nov 2015 00:27, "Ankry" wrote: > In many cases this relation may be not of 1-1 type. > Unless you connect disambig pages to Wikipedia in case of text variants. > Or if you have no text with variants

Re: [Wikisource-l] Etherpad link of Wikisource Conference 2015

2015-11-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Please find below the etherpad link of the Wikisource Identity Discussion at Wikisource Conference 2015 https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015weekend Regards, Bodhisattwa Mandal > Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia > > ''Imagine a world in which every single pers

[Wikisource-l] Etherpad link of Wikisource Conference 2015

2015-11-20 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Please find below the etherpad link of the proceedings of Wikisource Conference 2015. https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015 Regards -- Bodhisattwa Mandal Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia ''Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to

Re: [Wikisource-l] Technical wishlist

2015-11-10 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
I requested to get a tool so that Google OCR can be integrated with Indic language Wikisource projects. Bodhisattwa On 10 Nov 2015 19:38, "Alex Brollo" wrote: > I posted something about djvu files. > > Alex > > 2015-11-09 17:55 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni : > >> We should participate :-) >> >> https:

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