Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Wassan.anmol/New Book Uploader Bot (BUB)/Report

Accepted

Hello Wassan.anmol, thank you for submitting your final report! We are excited with the successful outcome of your project! I have reviewed your report and have the following questions and comments.

• The link to your Beta version app doesn’t work. Would you please update it?
• Are you planning to work on the stable version of the app? Additionally, are you still maintaining and developing the app?
• Do you have any stats regarding the usage of your tool inside or outside of your Wikimedia community?

Thank you again for your work on the Book Uploader Tool. I have reviewed your expense documentation and final report and accepted both. Your grant is now complete! Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 12:05, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you so much, DSaroyan (WMF). Answering your questions:

• I have deployed the tool on Wikimedia Toolforge. Here's the link: BUB2
• Yes. I am working on new features. I am increasing open-source contributors for this project by listing the project on different open-source programs like Hacktoberfest and GirlScript Summer of Code. You can see a list of current issues (enhancements + bugs) on GitHub.
• Before deploying, I along with some other volunteers uploaded a few books from the listed libraries. You can see a list of books uploaded by this tool on Internet Archive.

I am grateful that WMF gave me the opportunity to work on this tool. I hope to make this tool better by bringing in more and more features and maintaining it regularly. With exposing it to open-source, we will get new contributors, better code quality, and development will be paced.

Hope it answers your queries!

Wassan.anmol (talk) 11:36, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Wassan.anmol, thanks for your thoughtful responses! I am glad that you have already deployed the tool on Toolforge. Cheers, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 08:08, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

West Bengal Public Library Network

Hello @Wassan.anmol:, the tool has no option for West Bengal Public Library Network. As we had talked on this earlier, when you were proposing for rapid grant, can you work on that please? -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 06:18, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Hey Bodhisattwa, thanks for pointing this out. @Wassan.anmol: would you please follow-up with this request and add the option? Thanks, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 18:34, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Bodhisattwa, I checked West Bengal Library Network a long time ago, and couldn't find any available API. They host their library on DSpace which has REST API available (here), but it has to be enabled by the administrators. Moving forward, we have curated a list of libraries that we will be integrating in future and we have already started with Open Book Publishers. If WBPL doesn't provide me with the API, it will require a lot of development effort. Bodhisattwa, if you can help me with the enablement of WBPL API, it will be of great help.