Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

2014-09-10 Thread Wiki Billinghurst
Micru, As a question re uploaded works to Commons. Are we labelling these in some way as needing to have Index: pages at the WSes, and by language of work? If not, then it would seem that we may need to do some curatorial work to can we identify .djvu files at Commons that are not linked to

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

2014-09-10 Thread David Cuenca
Hi Billinghurst at ca-ws a user has been doing some tests to create automatically the missing Index: pages with a bot http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Especial:Contribucions/Anskarbot I don't know exactly how it works, or if it is stable enough, but I will ask. Regards, Micru On Wed, Sep 10, 2014

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

2014-09-09 Thread David Cuenca
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:59 AM, scann scannopo...@gmail.com wrote: BUT I would like to have someone writing some pieces of code to be able to scan upload: which means, to scan your book and be able to upload it automatically to wikimedia commons wikisource, using the same control system,

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

2014-09-09 Thread scann
2014-09-09 12:01 GMT-03:00 David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com: Have you tried the Book Uploader Bot? It is a project created by Rohit (in CC) for his GSoC. http://tools.wmflabs.org/bub/index Wow, thank you! This seems like a tool that we could use for the project, definitely. Do you know if

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

2014-09-08 Thread scann
Hello everyone! In Wikimedia Argentina we have been using these scanners (the ones that you're pointing at your e-mails) since 2012. There are a lot of technical insights I can provide about this issue (both about what we have been doing and the scanners) if you want, but I'll like to make some

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

2014-09-07 Thread Jayanta Nath
The is nice to see about scanner. It is inspired us. We are thinking about punche a scanner for our India Chapter. Jayanta Nath President, Wikimedia India ws.bn.user:jayantanth On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Luiz Augusto lugu...@gmail.com wrote: You'll certainly be interested on what

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

2014-09-06 Thread Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
Hi Carles, Wikimedia France bought a bookscanner in June [1]. It is not yet operational but I've tried a similar book scanner. It is easy and very fast (500p/hour). Pyb [1] http://www.bookscanner.fr/about-this-bookscanner.html 2014-09-06 18:20 GMT+02:00 Carles Paredes Lanau

Re: [Wikisource-l] Scanner purchase

2014-09-06 Thread Luiz Augusto
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]