Indic Wikisource Community/Newsletter/January-March 2021

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This issue is the 4th newsletter of the Indic Wikisource Community.

Books & Archive
Issue 04, JanuaryMarch 2021

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Re-licensing in Maharashtra -Marathi Fortnight is celebrated in Maharashtra from 14-28 January and Language Day on 27 February. Every year we conduct workshops in the state. This year it was not possible due to pandemics. So, we planned a re-licensing appeal campaign on these occasions. The appeals were sent to various groups, authors, heirs/copyright holders, publishing houses, NGOs, etc. The links of previous content donations were circulated. In the period, we got encouraging responses from six authors. Total of 16 books were scanned and uploaded.

Released books -

The below books are re-licensed to CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. Most of the books are in Marathi Language, facilitated by Subodh Kulkarni.

Below the proofreading developments of the last three month January 2021 - March 2021


  • No visible development is shown in Odia and Malayalam Wikisource.
  • In Sanskrit and Kannada Wikisource, they have the text of 22394 and 21038 numbers without scan page supported text exist respectively, it shows their content quality low. The community should work in this area in the coming months.
  • As per proofread stats the top 3 communities are as below.
    • Tamil (First)
    • Telegu (Second)
    • Bengali (third)
Languages Link Indexed counts Validated Counts
English(en) English 20019 4887
French(fr) français 19991 3456
Polish(pl) polski 4295 2218
Italian(it) italiano 2650 1101
Tamil(ta) தமிழ் 2252 224
Assamese(as) অসমীয়া 313 101
Telugu(te) తెలుగు 643 79
Bangla(bn) বাংলা 4472 76
Gujarati(gu) ગુજરાતી 154 76
Marathi(mr) मराठी 163 40
Hindi(hi) हिन्दी 426 32
Kannada(kn) ಕನ್ನಡ 345 18
Odia(or) ଓଡ଼ିଆ 85 18
Punjabi(pa) ਪੰਜਾਬੀ 246 16
Malayalam(ml) മലയാളം 348 0
This table shows the number of pages that have been proofread using the ProofreadPage extension, at 12 Indic Wikisource subdomains.

Notes:

  • The "proofread" column counts all the pages that have been proofread : [category q3] + [category q4]
  • Language subdomains are ranked by the number of page verifications : [category q3] + 2x[category q4]
  • The "with scans" column counts pages whose text is transcluded from the "Page:" namespace.
  • The "percent" column shows the percentage of texts backed with scans, excluding disambiguation pages from the total:

Percent (%) = [with scans]/([with scans] + [without scans])


Statistics on Saturday, 03. April 2021 05:01AM

Page namespace Main namespace
Language All pages Without text Not proofread Problematic Proofread Validated All pages With scans Without scans %
as 45367 847 23734 267 20519 16796 1861 609 1252 32.72
bn 708483 7881 661324 798 38480 13780 9426 9403 6 99.94
gu 27863 442 3253 3 24165 17696 7118 3705 3413 52.05
hi 138563 2101 37750 72 32170 9468 2537 2536 1 99.96
kn 62901 1105 54015 87 7950 5282 21367 226 21141 1.06
ml 47616 2072 12329 132 33083 704 6497 766 5731 11.79
mr 58136 110 44634 3 13333 5039 2106 591 1515 28.06
or 7672 78 1633 5 5956 5375 842 261 576 31.18
pa 42096 639 13966 111 27380 12075 495 367 128 74.14
sa 81733 306 52963 31 28432 10585 23901 926 22975 3.87
ta 410320 257 314875 219 94915 58255 12532 8047 4483 64.22
te 79820 1945 16144 221 61510 35798 14980 5715 9265 38.15


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