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Report of the Wikisource Community User Group for 2024.

Written by VIGNERON, Samwilson, Waldyrious, Wassan.anmol, Darafsh, Filipinayzd.

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)

These meetings were hosted by Kolawole Lawal (WMF) and supported by Sam Wilson (WMF) and Satdeep Gill (WMF).

Wikimedia Hackathon 2024

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Wikisource intro session

Several wikisourcerors were presents at the mw:Wikimedia Hackathon 2024, including Sam Wilson, VIGNERON and some others.

Besides general discussion, people worked on various task:

  • Albertoleoncio worked on a new Magic word for excluding pages who don't need scans (see 1026897: Special:PagesWithoutScans)
  • Jon Harald Soby worked on finishing the import/creation of 3 new Wikisource language editions (Georgian, Burmese, Malay)
  • Around OCR:
    • 1024985: Wikisource OCR popup focus fixing
    • 1027486: Switched the OCR toolbar loading to the new 'secondary' section
  • 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 :

Some people (Sohom, Anmol) worked remotely. Sohom worked online on a new version of the tool Match and split: matchandsplit. 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

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 on YouTube

Wikisource Conference 2025

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A big part of the year was used to put in place the second Wikisource Conference (the first one was in 2015 and the 2020 edition was cancelled due to COVID).

First, the user group, along with our fiscal sponsor Wikimedia Indonesia, applied for a grant (Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Conference Fund/Wikisource Conference 2024). It was proposed in September 2024 but was moved to February 2025. Then, several teams were set up to organize the conference (a core team, a scholarship team and a program team).

Others

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Number of discussions 1 1 3 2 1 1 3 1 7 1 1 1
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