Indic Wikisource Community/Newsletter/April-June 2020
Indic Wikisource CommunityThis issue is the first newsletter of the Indic Wikisource Community.we announce two new global branches and a new partnership. Our global pageviews analysis is unveiled. We spotlight recent research and upcoming events. As always, we have a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.
Proofread of the month
Validate of the month
Wikisource Proofread hall of fame
Book re-release of the monthThe below books are re-licensed to CC-BY-SA 4.0 license. Most of the books are in Marathi Language, facilitated by Subodh Kulkarni.
Most page view of the monthThe below table is the Most Page View of the last three month by project languages.
| Language | Most Page of Book | Page View |
|---|---|---|
| Assamese | অসমৰ বুৰঞ্জী | 2,175 |
| Bengali | s:bn:জীবনানন্দ দাশের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা/বনলতা সেন | 7,208 |
| Gujarati | s:gu:શ્રાવ્ય પુસ્તક:સૌરાષ્ટ્રની રસધાર ૧ | 6,915 |
| Hindi | s:hi:भारत के प्राचीन राजवंश | 5,366 |
| Kannada | s:kn:ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞನ ವಚನಗಳು | 1,557 |
| Malayalam | s:ml:തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ഹദീസുകൾ/വിവിധ വിഷയങ്ങൾ | 34,488 |
| Marathi | s:mr:मारुती स्तोत्र | 70,117 |
| Odia | s:or:ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଗବତ | 2,995 |
| Punjabi | s:pa:ਹੀਰ ਵਾਰਿਸ ਸ਼ਾਹ | 796 |
| Sanskrit | s:sa:नमस्ते सदा वत्सले (संघ प्रार्थना) | 21,639 |
| Tamil | s:ta:கந்த சஷ்டி கவசம் | 25,031 |
| Telugu | s:te:గోవింద నామాలు | 3,410 |
Events- Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon conducted by CIS-A2K in first week of May 2020. This is this first time wikisource online proofreadthon happend in all India level. Total 194 user participated in this edithon. Out of 194 there 30 woman participant contributed. 153 books used for proofresading and 22446 pages proofread & 10617 pages validated in this events of only 10days long.
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Proofread Stats of Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon, May 2020 -
Paritipants by languages -
153 books user by languages -
Proofreading Increasing in Feb' 20 to June' 20
- Tamil Wikisource workshop at SSSS Jain College for Women and Tamil Wikisource Edit-a-Thon for School Students conduted by Tamil community on March2020.
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students at the workshop -
students proof reading
- Wikisource Online Webinar and Kannada Wikisource Webinar for Indic Wikiosurce community conduted by conducted by CIS-A2K on last week of May 2020 and June 2020 respectively. 30+ user perticiapated this wbinar. The Transclution and Future Goal of Indic Wikisorce explain in this session.
Archive in brief
- During the last 3 months, CIS-A2K conducted one online proofreadthon in all India level. All 10 language community participated except Hindi and Malayalam. It showed very significant growth in three languages i.e. Assamese, Marathi and Tamil. They bagged the top three positions in this proofreadthon.
- User:QueerEcofeminist got new admin right and User:Tiven2240 interface admin right in Marathi wikisource in the last 3 months.
- In Sanskrit and Kannada Wikisource , they have text of 22394 and 21038 numbers without scan page supported text exist respectively, its 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)
- Malayalam (third)
- The 100% validation readable/Downloadable books are available in below number.
| Languages | Link | Indexed counts | Validated Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assamese(as) | অসমীয়া | 222 | 73 |
| Bangla(bn) | বাংলা | 4175 | 64 |
| Gujarati(gu) | ગુજરાતી | 120 | 67 |
| Kannada(kn) | ಕನ್ನಡ | 318 | 0 |
| Malayalam(ml) | മലയാളം | 346 | 0 |
| Odia(or) | ଓଡ଼ିଆ | 85 | 17 |
| Punjabi(pa) | ਪੰਜਾਬੀ | 218 | 14 |
| Tamil(ta) | தமிழ் | 2242 | 156 |
| Telugu(te) | తెలుగు | 501 | 70 |
| English(en) | English | 16918 | 4134 |
StaticticsNotes:
- The "proofread" column counts all the pages that have been proofread : [category q3] + [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 Sunday, 28. June 2020 06:01PM
| Page namespace | Main namespace | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | All pages | Without text | Not proofread | Problematic | Proofread | Validated | All pages | With scans | Without scans | % |
| as | 27619 | 604 | 15657 | 90 | 11268 | 9510 | 1680 | 380 | 1300 | 22.62 |
| bn | 710912 | 7111 | 677678 | 592 | 25531 | 12766 | 8323 | 8302 | 5 | 99.94 |
| gu | 21730 | 392 | 2705 | 1 | 18632 | 15318 | 6615 | 2397 | 4218 | 36.24 |
| hi | 83510 | 1126 | 40548 | 100 | 17599 | 4810 | 1124 | 1123 | 1 | 99.91 |
| kn | 60855 | 877 | 53817 | 84 | 6333 | 3988 | 21201 | 163 | 21038 | 0.77 |
| ml | 47249 | 2052 | 12636 | 133 | 32428 | 693 | 6435 | 733 | 5702 | 11.39 |
| mr | 41792 | 82 | 31147 | 5 | 10505 | 3813 | 2143 | 581 | 1562 | 27.11 |
| or | 7651 | 78 | 1854 | 4 | 5715 | 5075 | 800 | 223 | 572 | 28.05 |
| pa | 38316 | 565 | 13683 | 108 | 23960 | 10913 | 447 | 320 | 127 | 71.59 |
| sa | 64140 | 270 | 50201 | 28 | 13640 | 7775 | 23049 | 655 | 22394 | 2.84 |
| ta | 413192 | 203 | 350802 | 225 | 61962 | 32603 | 10387 | 5954 | 4431 | 57.33 |
| te | 63159 | 1509 | 16254 | 95 | 45301 | 30743 | 14000 | 4797 | 9203 | 34.26 |
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