Thanks Sam! Now we should focus on help about requisites of a good, wikisource-oriented IA upload: proper scan quality, good file names and useful metadata. IMHO it would be great to build a "wikisource collection" into IA, since collection admins can edit any item detail but its ID, and fix most mistakes.
Alex 2017-02-09 4:10 GMT+01:00 Sam Wilson <s...@samwilson.id.au>: > This new feature is now live on the ia-upload tool: > http://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/ > Please raise any issues on Github: > https://github.com/wikisource/ia-upload/issues > > The conversion process takes about 15 minutes for most books, it seems > like. (For books that already have DjVus at IA, it uploads them > immediately though.) > > Thanks, > Sam. > > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, at 09:33 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > > I've been tinkering with the ia-upload tool and incorporating Alex > > Brollo's better system of DjVu generation (better than converting from > > PDF, that is; instead it works from the original Jpeg2000 files and > > merges the OCR data in). > > > > I've set up a test installation of the tool at > > http://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/test/ and would love anyone to have a > > go at it, and to report any bugs at > > https://github.com/wikisource/ia-upload/issues > > > > Because DjVu generation can take a while (quite a while if you've got a > > crappy slow laptop like me), the tool runs each job on the grid engine, > > starting every 5 minutes. The queue is shown on the homepage of the > > tool, with a status of each job. (Unless you're just re-using an > > existing DjVu file from the IA, in which case it's just uploaded > > directly to Commons while you wait, like the tool's always done.) > > > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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