What do you think about aproaching ABBYY and explaining that this is really important to us? Simply keeping feature usually is not a big issue. Can we ask Foundation to approach them?
2018-04-06 15:59 GMT+04:00 Peter Meyer <econte...@gmail.com>: > I have heard about this issue many times, and it always seemed important, > but also seems too hard to understand and act on. We could at least > discuss possibilities online and at upcoming conferences. > > Could we distill these issues online on a wiki page somewhere? Or is it > already done? > (1) what are the significant differences between pdf and djvu (or some new > version of djvu that we could imagine coming up with) > (2) what partner organizations or developers would want to help or work on > it? Is Internet Archive, for example, able and willing to work together on > it, if we said specifically that this interests us? Can they help at > least describe the difficulty of the things we’re taking about? > Wikisource user group, some chapters perhaps. It is hard for a network of > nonprofits to take the lead here, maybe, compared to a focused company . . > . but maybe possible. > > On Apr 6, 2018, at 10:06 AM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Perhaps. But the case would need to be made (in more detail, and more > compellingly) to the people who could decide that, and none of them are on > this list. You'd probably have to convince managers of technical teams at > WMF if there is to be a chance of prioritizing it. > > A. > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 1:33 AM Alex Brollo <alex.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As you know, djvu format is an excellent and open format, but its fate is >> uncertain since it is overwhelmed by pdf, surely excellent, but closed and >> very difficult to manage. >> >> Even if a small part of djvu features are used by mediawiki, djvu in a >> necessary tool for wikisource work. >> >> Unluckily, there's no sufficient work about djvu, and I see that recently >> ABBYY discontinued the support of djvu format as output in its OCR engines. >> This is probably the cause of discontinuation of djvu files output bi >> Internet Archive. >> >> Is it possible to encourage MediaWiki to devoid sufficient energies to >> save djvu format to its fate? >> >> Alex brollo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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