Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Wikisource/Index creation wizard

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Index creation wizard

Problem: Uploading books to Wikisource is difficult. In the current workflow you need to upload the file on Commons, then go to Wikisource and create the Index page (and you need to know the exact URL). The files need to be DJVU, which has different layers for the scan and the text. This is important for tools like Match & Split (if the file is a PDF, this tool doesn't work).
More importantly, the current workflow (especially for library uploads) includes Internet Archive, and the famous IA-Upload tool. This tool is now fundamental for many libraries and uploaders, but it has several issues.
As Internet Archive stopped creating the DJVU files from his scans, the international community has struggled solving the issue of creating automatically a DJVU for uploading on Commons and then Wikisource. This has created a situation where libraries love Internet Archive, want to use it, but then get stuck because they don't know how to create a DJVU for Wikisource, and the IA-Upload is bugged and fails often.
Proposed solution: # Incorporate the features of IA-Upload tool onto a wiki-side Index/Book Creation Wizard with a more friendly UX redesign.

Expand the wizard's functionality to similar services (eg. Hathi Trust, Google Books, Gallica, etc.)
Allow the wizard to assist in the creation of indexes and configuring its pagelist.

Who would benefit: Wikisource communities, new and future GLAM partners
More comments: This has been proposed several other times but just barely didn't get the required support:
- 2021 by Slowking4
- 2020 by Candalua
- 2017 by Aubrey
Phabricator tickets: T154413 (related: T17071)
Proposer: –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 19:57, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Thanks for creating this proposal! I went ahead and added the most robust description to the problem, based on the previous wishes you linked to-- feel free to edit if you feel the problem statement seems outdates or like it needs more details! The more detailed the description of the problem, the better- hence my edit. Thanks so much! NRodriguez (WMF) (talk) 17:36, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support --Bicolino34 (talk) 18:07, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jan Kameníček (talk) 00:38, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 01:58, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 08:13, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Terber (talk) 11:35, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support VIGNERON * ^discut. 16:19, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mbrickn (talk) 16:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Viticulum (talk) 18:25, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Agus Damanik (talk) 01:45, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 08:35, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 10:56, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Satirdan kahraman (talk) 06:02, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Info-farmer (talk) 09:16, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sohom Datta (talk) 11:34, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Candalua (talk) 11:43, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hb2007 (talk) 15:01, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 19:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:34, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Paperoastro (talk) 10:12, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Susanna Giaccai (talk) 10:27, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Akme (talk) 17:51, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wargo (talk) 22:44, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nosferattus (talk) 02:52, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support M0tty (talk) 09:57, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Silver hr (talk) 14:00, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support AlwynapHuw (talk) 19:54, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 02:36, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support HHill (talk) 14:07, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Simone.httas (talk) 16:22, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Waldyrious (talk) 23:21, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 09:28, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 10:57, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 18:23, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 04:15, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomchiukc (talk) 07:41, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support paul2520 (talk) 16:59, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Such a tool should support more than the IA, Hathi Trust, Library of Congress, and other sites are some important ones. Languageseeker (talk) 04:46, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support EconAmbiente (talk) 09:38, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 23:54, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hillun Vilayl Napis (WMID) (talk) 12:17, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mrcesare (talk) 13:21, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]