2019:Transcription/Wikisource Year in Review 2019
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Description
[edit | edit source]Wikisource year in Review
Relationship to the theme
[edit | edit source]This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner:
Increasing free education of literature, and dissemination of literature, in many languages
Session outcomes
[edit | edit source]At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:
A broad knowledge of history and trends in Wikisource and transcription.
Session leader(s)
[edit | edit source]- Nicolas Vigeron
- Jim Hayes
- Satdeep Gill
- Balaji J
Discussion of wikisource progress and problems.
Session type
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- Panel with audience Question & Answer session
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SESSION SUMMARY
[edit | edit source]- Copy of the notes from the Etherpad, taken by Bruno, VIGNERON, Peter Isotalo
I'm Jim H., from English Wikisource
Wikisource is multilingual, many lang (screen of the main
https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/
Indic languages are going strong !
Two step process but same trend for proofread and validated pages.
Screens copy from http://wikiscan.org/?menu=allsites&group=wikisource
Polish Wikisource, 3rd wikisource has "only" 49 users
Tamil Wikisource, 31 user, big recent spike
- Indic WS stats
Growth statistic, shows punjabi show it's the In India, people shifted from translation on Wikipedia to transcribing on Wikisource. Texts on Wikisource which later can be used on Wikipedia. First Wikimedia in Residence in a private Penjabi school Gujarati wikisource does audiobooks. Lot of cool stories ! All with almost no support.
Creation of new wikisource, Neapolitan and Hindi being approved and waiting for creation. Neapolitan was created 2 days ago during the hackathon. 70 wikisource project (in theory).
Comparison and review to other plateform. Important to be connected to the wider community. Wikisource can be a service and a plateform for smaller GLAM.
What happened this year : workshops Celtic Knot conference, blogpost on WMF.
Statistics about consultation :
- Bruno: what are people using Wikisource for?
- Peter: very valid question, we should try to get surveys on usage done. (One way would be to ping the research groups, Leila was interrested)
- Martin: Wikisource is an other level for newcomer, how can we improve that? (on the tech side) small improvement can make a big change.
- Satdeep: yes, the centering button for example.
When we close the tech gap, we see a big take off, like the the indic languages showed!