Re: [Wikisource-l] Takedown of BUB book on Internet Archive

The funniest thing is that the very same digitization is still available on Google Book Search (just downloaded the PDF version) and the same title is available on dozens of records at the HathiTrust consortium [1]. Are some volunteers of Internet Archive lazy to research basic things on

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals

As usual, they've forgotten to fwd to project lists. -- Forwarded message - From: Zack McCune Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:14 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals To: , Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> :: Apologies

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

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > (...) > > Unfortunately, for the time being, we hare scattered communities with no > software support whatsoever: we don't have a Proofread page for > Right-to-left languages, just imagine how much time it would

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

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Ankry wrote: > > What about two multilanguage Wikisources? One for RTL languages, another > > for LTR languages. > > ... and the third for some Asian scripts: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60729 ? > > And maybe a separate one for

[Wikisource-l] Wikimedia Digitization User Group

FYI, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Digitization_User_Group ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Gadgets broken around the place js errors

Don't know if it's related but I've just noticed that proofread tools section have disappeared from enhanced toolbar on some subdomains (pt,fr) but it's still working at en. Any thoughts? On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:24 AM, billinghurst billinghurstw...@gmail.com wrote: Following reports of

Re: [Wikisource-l] VIAF aligning to Wikidata is helpful for Wikisource

There isn't reason to celebrate, unfortunately. The blog post mentions only Wikipedia links. And, in fact, doing a search on test.viaf.org, you will get only records containing links to Wikipedia. See for example the JSON formated record for Jane Austen:

[Wikisource-l] facebook.com/Wikisource

Hi, Please take a look at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#facebook.com.2FWikisource and share your views, if possible Many thanks, Luiz ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikisource-l] Creating an OPDS feed for Wikisource (was Re: [KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline)

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart kel...@kiwix.org wrote: [...] We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free books libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add, this might be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available.

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

You'll certainly be interested on what Wikimedia Argentina is doing with DIY Book Scanners [1]. They tried to submit a Wikimania presentation, but the team behind it's organization simply refused the paper with no further details (sigh). At least, you can check some interesting infos both on [2]

[Wikisource-l] Custom progress level for Index pages

I've tried to create a new progress level for Index pages on pt.wikisource with no success (new level isn't being displayed on selection menu if I try to edit an Index page). I need to do more than those edits to get it working properly?

[Wikisource-l] Google Search and wikisource.org

FYI, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Google_Search_and_wikisource.org ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available

May will be useful also to found some PD-old scans to proofread? -- Forwarded message -- From: Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available To: Wikimedia Libraries

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available

Em 19/06/2014 20:03, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com escreveu: Luiz Augusto, 20/06/2014 00:23: May will be useful also to found some PD-old scans to proofread? What? Is there some JSTOR PD document not yet uploaded to archive.org? ;-) On my last check, this entire collection

Re: [Wikisource-l] Subpages on Wikidata

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com wrote: The Game is really very funny to play and, unlike most online games, it results in some useful actions (defining if a page is about a person, their gender, their birth and death dates, their country of citizenship

Re: [Wikisource-l] Subpages on Wikidata

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:29 AM, billinghurst billinghu...@gmail.com wrote: If the game is presenting pages that it shouldn't, then it needs its rules refined for the WSes The Game was presenting such pages due to their default behaviour: - display a page with no P31 (instance of) values

Re: [Wikisource-l] Subpages on Wikidata

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:29 AM, billinghurst billinghu...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I am more concerned with the likes of https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UnconnectedPages and more particularly

[Wikisource-l] Subpages on Wikidata

I don't recall what is the current stage of consensus regarding Wikisource subpages on Wikidata, but because while playing The Game [1] I keep getting this kind of item (mostly from es.wikisource), I've managed a way to at least track those stuff [2] I didn't did an exhaustive search for such

[Wikisource-l] Wikisource core feature is broken for more than 50 hours

So sorry for the cross-posting and for this shout for help that some can read as a forum shopping, but this is really annoying. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64622 In short, we on all Wikisource wikis are unable to start working on new pages from digitized books (or for newly

[Wikisource-l] Community logo for Wikisource

Hi all, I and [[User:Danilo.mac]] ve created some proposals of community logos, as in the same spirit the Wikimedia Community logo was created years ago. You are free to use, fork or simply ignore their existence =) (BTW Dear Wikimedia Foundation, please don't trademark those logos as you've

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Gujarati Wikisource - completes 50 books

Congratulations! I've just found https://wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Gujarati , a very large category on oldwikisource. All those pages have been imported into gu.wikisource? On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:20 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.comwrote: -- Forwarded message

[Wikisource-l] Preservation Week

From 27 April to 3 May many GLAM institutions will be holding events for the Preservation Week [1]: ALA [American Library Association] encourages libraries and other institutions to use Preservation Week to connect our communities through events, activities, and resources that highlight what we

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

Wikisource specific info at http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Proyek_Penciptaan_dan_Digitalisasi_Konten/Rencana_Anggaran -- Forwarded message -- From: Isabella Apriyana isabella.apriy...@wikimedia.or.id Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:56 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Press Release: Wikimedia

[Wikisource-l] RfC: Creation of a Global Wikimedia Commons

Hi all, I've just created a RfC related to the recent open letters from some local chapters. Please see my reasoning and focus debate on that proposal in the specific page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Creation_of_a_Global_Wikimedia_Commons Best, [[:m:User:555]]

Re: [Wikisource-l] Commons and URAA

://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Massive_restoration_of_deleted_images_by_the_URAA On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com wrote: Days ago Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair from Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees answered the original letter from Wikimedia Israel: https

Re: [Wikisource-l] ProofreadPage documentation

I've started it on [1]. It's unfortunate that due to licensing issues (ns:Help is CC0 on mediawiki.org wiki) we can't transwiki some existing pages from Wikisources. So, specially because it, a lot of help is needed. While writing those initial pages I just realized that there is no guide to

[Wikisource-l] Special:ProofreadIndexOai

I've just found [[Special:ProofreadIndexOai]] and loved it! Firstly, why this special page isn't listed at [[Special:SpecialPages]]? Second, [1] points to [2], that returns a 404 error. Oka, now I'll ask the most important thing: how to implement it!? =) The doc page [3] mentions a page stored

Re: [Wikisource-l] Commons and URAA

Wikimedia España just published a similar letter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_España/Letter_to_the_BoT_regarding_URAA On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.comwrote: Folks from Wikimedia Israel wrote to the board for a problem with the URAA and

Re: [Wikisource-l] Special:ProofreadIndexOai

...@gmail.comwrote: Luiz, I don't see it listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:OAuthListConsumers which is where all approved clients are listed at this time (though the plan is to move the process to meta at some point). Regards, Billinghurst On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:54:18 -0300, Luiz

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikitech-l] The poem tag to be known as lines

I've just sent two comments on this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52061#c38 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6810#c8 On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From

[Wikisource-l] Language categories on Commons

I've started the page discussion https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_categories_on_Commons Any inputs are welcomed. ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] A letter from WMIL to the Board of Trustees regarding the deletion of images from Commons under URAA

May be an interesting read for those of us that lives outside the USA and curates public domain contents. -- Mensagem encaminhada -- De: Yael Meron y...@wikimedia.org.il Data: 28/01/2014 06:52 Assunto: [Wikimedia-l] A letter from WMIL to the Board of Trustees regarding the deletion

Re: [Wikisource-l] upload from InternetArchive tool

Found a minor issue while playing with https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedarc03rola: text inviting to create an Creator page on Wikimedia Commons is displayed as raw text with HTML tags visible BTW many thanks for another great tool! On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)

Re: [Wikisource-l] upload from InternetArchive tool

Found a new small issue after your fix: the creator page should be placed on Creator namespace, not in the main namespace On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Thomas Tanon thoma...@hotmail.fr wrote: @Luiz Augusto I've just fixed this issue. Thanks for the report. @Aubrey There is already [1

Re: [Wikisource-l] Our first IW link solving talk on Wikidata

:) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014/1/15 Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q1845 ___ Wikisource-l

[Wikisource-l] Our first IW link solving talk on Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q1845 ___ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Advocacy Advisors] Blog post about Wikipedia and the public domain

it be crazy to ask the WMF Legal team if something could be done, for Wikisource, for the URAA problem? I mean: could it be possible to store all the Wikisource content in a server outside US? Would it change anything? Aubrey On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikisource-l] Issues with ProofreadPage

hope that helps =) Many thanks, Luiz On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:42 AM, phil...@free.fr wrote: 2013/12/14 Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com Header and footer sections aren't being displayed on pt.wikisource. Isn't it the Safari 4.0/5.1 and IE 8 trouble we got also on fr.wp ? -- Phe

Re: [Wikisource-l] Issues with ProofreadPage

PM, Alex Brollo alex.bro...@gmail.com wrote: Strange I entered and I saw them, both logged and unlogged; I only found a default setting to hide them, but both using preferences or Proofreading tools (Instrumentos de revisão) header and footer can be seen. Alex 2013/12/14 Luiz Augusto

Re: [Wikisource-l] Issues with ProofreadPage

Header and footer sections aren't being displayed on pt.wikisource. Maybe it's due to local scripts? Example: https://pt.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=P%C3%A1gina:Phar%C3%B3es.pdf/45action=edit On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:52 AM, billinghurst billinghu...@gmail.comwrote: Gday Tpt, I would

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikidata-l] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Tom Morris tfmor...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure I agree. There's a lot of good data in OpenLibrary, but there's also a lot of junk. Freebase imported a bunch of OpenLibrary data, after winnowing it to what they thought was the good stuff, and still ended

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikidata-l] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0

Due to weird reasons my message was sent only to wikidata-l. Re-sending to wikisource-l. Sorry for any inconvenience On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Douillard thomas.douill...@gmail.com wrote: That's why I

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikidata-l] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0

Just found this thread while browsing my email archives (I'm/was inactive on Wikimedia for at least 2 years) IMHO will be very helpfull if a central place hosting metadata from digitized works will be created. In my past experience, I've found lots of PD-old books from languages like french,

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Wikidata-l] DNB 11M bibliographic records as CC0

wrote: Thanks for reviving this thread, Luiz. I also wanted to ask whether we should be updating parts of DNB and similar data. Maybe not create new entries, but for those that we already have, add some of the available data and point to the DNB dataset? On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Luiz

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Creating Wikikultur

FYI, proposal for a new Wikimedia project or Wikibooks/Wikisource inclusion criteria -- Mensagem encaminhada -- De: Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org Data: 27/11/2012 14:37 Assunto: [Wikimedia-l] Creating Wikikultur Para: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello, I just

[Wikisource-l] A Collaborative Environment For Music Transcription And Publishing

FYI, the following Open Acces paper describes an implementation of DokuWiki and ABC to make a collaborative environment for music scores. May be interesting for those that watches the inactivity on [[bugzilla:189]] (opened on 2004). http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=30623

[Wikisource-l] Still wikipediocentric

Dear all, I was the [[:m:User:555]], mainly active on the last years of my volunteers actions on Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. I've left the Wikimedia projects mainly because the lack of energy from my side to keep trying to get free time to work in projects fully neglected by the Wikimedia

Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs setups restarting

Now pt.wikisource too: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16365:-) P.S.: in a near future I will send a detailed message about the pt.wikisource plans regarding sources of works and stabilization: I'm since July doing some tests based on the it.wikisource policy plus some innovations

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] new extension for embedded music scores

-- Forwarded message -- From: River Tarnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:18 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] new extension for embedded music scores To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello, i have written a new extension to embed

[Wikisource-l] Extension:Collection

FYI: Since the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection is enabled on all Wikibooks projects, I've changed the bug 15970 requesting it getting enabled also on all Wikisource projects: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15970#c2 ___

[Wikisource-l] Green papers

Anyone knows if a [[w:green paper]] from the European Union is under copyright? I'm asking it because IMHO the following green paper can be a great addition to Wikisource: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/copyright-infso/copyright-infso_en.htm

[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] On Perpetual Copyright (NYT)

-- Forwarded message -- From: cohesion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 20, 2007 5:21 PM Subject: [Commons-l] On Perpetual Copyright (NYT) To: English Wikipedia [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wikimedia Commons Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lawrence Lessig is asking people to form a response

Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] A successful request not yet fulfilled (was Language Prevention Committee created)

Hi, thanks for your reply. Now the discussion continues on http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Wikisource:Language_domain_requests_versus_m:Meta:Language_proposal_policy On 4/1/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, The developers usually want approval