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Report of the Wikisource Community User Group for 2023.

Written by VIGNERON, OrbiliusMagister, Darafsh, Poslovitch...

Events

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Online meetings

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Wikisource Community meetings/2023 Wikisource Community meetings

10 online meetings happened in 2023. These meetings where focused on many subjects but mainly on technology with non-technical Wikisource contributors invited to join and share any technical challenges. Several informations, updates and tools were also shared. As the community is spread all over the World, they are a very important way to keep in touch.

Wikimania Singapore

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Group photo

Thanks to the organisation teams, there was a lot of events and presentations during this Wikimania in Singapore:

  • Meetup (August 16, 01:00–02:00 (UTC), Room 310)
  • Workshop on Simple Digitization, Uploading and Indexing Public Domain text in Wikisource (by Samwilson and Agus Damanik, August 16, Plenary Hall)
  • Basics of Editing Wikisource (by Satdeep Gill (WMF), Benny, Nur Fahmia, August 16, Plenary Hall), video on YouTube
  • Punjabi Audiobooks Project (room 311)
  • Wikisource in Uganda (room 311)
  • Workshop on Manuscript Digitization of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts - showcase (room 311, https://w.wiki/7Axi)
  • Helping Wikisource recognize handwritten documents (room 311, https://w.wiki/7Axk)
  • The Future of Wikisource (room 311, https://w.wiki/7Axm)
  • WikiLontar Project and the next of Balinese Wikisource (Plenary Hall)
  • Wikipustaka, Wikipabukon, and Wikisumber - Four Wikisource Competitions and Their Results

A table at the hackathon.

Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2023

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There was presentations related to Wikisource during the Turkic Wikimedia Conference (20 to 22 October 2023 in Istanbul):

  • The Importance and Beauty of Wikisource (slides) by OrbiliusMagister, a SWOT approach to why active Wikisources are an important resource for the Turkic communities. The presentation was praised and stirred a lot of interest and contributed to raise awareness in the growing community of Turkic Wikisources (tr-az-hy-ge).
  • Giving New Life to Old Books: How to Digitize Public Domain Works (slides) by Darafsh, a workshop where participants learned the art of digitizing timeless literary pieces. The session covered uploading these works on Commons and transcribing them on Wikisource.

Other meetings

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Several other meetings, often non directly related to the usergroup, have been held in 2023 :

Reusing Wikisource

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The Dicothèque

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The Dicothèque logo
Short video showcasing the Dicothèque prototype on the French Wikisource

French Wikisource contributors User:Lyokoï and User:Poslovitch started developing an interface for consulting and comparing dictionaries available on Wikisource they dubbed the Dicothèque (French portmanteau of dico- = dictionary and bibliothèque = library).

A prototype was made available on the French Wikisource in May 2023 at s:fr:Wikisource:Dicothèque. It currently allows consultation of 28 dictionaries.

As it makes heavy use of Wikidata, it was also showcased at WikidataCon 2023 in November 2023 and garnered attention from the global Wikisource community.

The project goal was therefore expanded to become compatible with most linguistic editions of Wikisource. Thus, the Dicothèque is now planned to be released as its own website instead of on-wiki in early 2024.

The code is available on Wikimedia Gitlab.

Others

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