Wikisource Community User Group/2024 Report

Report of the Wikisource Community User Group for 2024.

Written by VIGNERON, Samwilson, ...

Events

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Online meetings

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Wikisource Community meetings

24 February 2024 (17 persons)
30 March 2024 (16 person registered, 18 participants), discussion about the hackathon, Wikimania, the Wikisource conference and various other technical subjects.
27 April 2024 (10 persons)
25 May 2024 (18 persons)
29 June 2024 (12 persons)
27 July 2024 ( persons)

17 May 2024: Persian Wikisource: Zero to Hero by Darafsh for the Iranian Wikimedians User Group

Wikimedia Hackathon 2024

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Wikisource intro session

TBD Several wikisourcerors were at the mw:Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, including Sam Wilson, VIGNERON and many others. Among other things:

Albertoleoncio worked on a new magic words for pages not needing scans
- 1026897: Special:PagesWithoutScans excluding
Jon Harald Soby worked on finishing the import/creation of 3 new Wikisource language editions (Georgian, Burmese, Malay)
Sohom worked online on a new Match and split https://matchandsplit.toolforge.org
OCR
- 1024985: Wikisource OCR popup focus fixing
- 1027486: Switched the OCR toolbar loading to the new 'secondary' section
Some people (Sohom, Anmol) worked remotely (please add more details)
User: Wassan.anmol migrated the tool to Cloud VPS (phab:T364175). The tool can now be accessed at https://bub2.wmcloud.org. Other fixes for BUB2 tool were also done - phab:T364176 and phab:T358358
Discussion about Dark Mode on Wikisources (with Jdlrobson)
Side-discussions about re-merging all the Wikisources together again (big discussion, both on technical and social sides, will need many discussions with the each and every community)
Other projects maybe useful for Wikisource :
- phab:T361258 (improve Special:Nuke to include rencently created subpages for instances)
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Various tools and gadgets

Wikimania Katowice

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Group photo

Unlike last Wikimania, there was only few sessions related to Wikisource.

there has been a meetup where we talked about various subjects, including the next Wikisource conference and future of this User Group and some problem (what is acceptable on Wikisources ? can we split the Armenian Wikisource ? etc.)

Other meetings

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Some of the participants of the 3rd session

February: Nicolas (with the help of Nanour and others) did 4 sessions of training of trainers for the West African Réseau @pprendre. It was especially important as Africa is a major blind spot and knowledge gap for Wikisource. See also Diff post
February 15: Satdeep Gill did a presentation about Wikisource Loves Manuscripts at the 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium, video ou YouTube

Others

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Diff posts:
- Le Réseau @pprendre apprend Wikisource, 3 March 2024 by Step may, Azogbonon, VIGNERON, NANoR, CapitainAfrika, Bile rene and AdjoEsse
- Celebrating The Conclusion of Wikisource Loves Manuscript Pilot in Indonesia, 7 March 2024 by Sakti Pramudya, Satdeep Gill (WMF) and Sailesh Patnaik
- Wikisource editions to feature Dr. Jose Rizal’s works, 4 June 2024 by Filipinayzd
- Embarking on My First Rapid Fund for Wikipabukon, the Sundanese Wikisource, 4 June 2024 by Mutumanikam
- Celebrating Achievements and Future Plans: A Cohort Journey with the Wikisource Loves Manuscripts Learning Partners Network, 19 June 2024 by Sailesh Patnaik, Sakti Pramudya and Satdeep Gill
- Preserving Assamese Heritage through the Wikisource Loves Manuscripts Project! 19 June 2024 by Sailesh Patnaik
- Malay Wikisource, ten thousand edits after: the story so far, 19 July 2024 by PeaceSeekers
- Spreading the Spirit of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WILMA) in the Philippines 4 August 2024 by Mingming (The PhilWiki Community Blog), Irvin Sto. Tomas (ESEAP Preparatory Council), and Sakti Pramudya (WMF)
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