Maastricht University, 2015-05-06. Explaining the principles of Wikipedia for students with User:Taketa (left) and User:Romaine (right)

Greetings.
My name is Dick Bos. I'm from the Netherlands.

I work on the English and Dutch Wikipedia, (mostly) on the English and Dutch Wikisource, on Wikimedia Commons and on Wikidata.

 


 

Wikimania 2024: Kraków

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see: 2024:Scholarships

Wikimania 2021: online

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Some interesting results

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See also: wikiversity:WikiJournal Preprints/When the Wikimedia movement challenges how to do science
With a nice introducing video: on YouTube
Remark: the First book created is CC-BY-NC
Very interesting: about quickly reaching Sustainable Development Goals; with good transcript !!!!
wmde and wmfr have already undersigned the m:Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant <- wmnl?
see also: m:Library Card platform/Design improvements

The WikiJournals

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Thomas Shafee and Andrew Leung gave introductions on "Wikipedia-integrated academic journals" at 2021:Unconference/Wikipedia and academic journals from the perspectives of what you need to know about the Journals as an academic and as a Wikipedian.

The four journals are now on wikiversity: wikiversity:WikiJournal_User_Group, but there is a proposal to create a separate wiki for the Journals: m:WikiJournal

WikiCite

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interesting links:

see also: mw:Wikidata - Wikisource Integration Modules

Cite Q

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I started using this template on a subpage of my page on en-wiki (I believe it's not yet available at en-ws)

Wikisource and (new) OCR tools

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2021:Submissions/OCR and other tools for Wikisource (from the Notepad)

Speaker(s)
  • Ruthven
  • Sam Wilson
  • Natalia Rodriguez

( leave a message at Building 1, Floor 1, Table T - 9: WMF A )

Intro by Ruthven

Demonstration by Sam of:

  • Tesseract vs. Google OCR, each with their own specific quality.
  • Recently a new button was made and deployed in Wikisource in all languages. (YouTube now a forbidden area for the spam filter)
  • Advanced options with possibility to use language specificity, while extracting text from an image hosted on a Wikimedia server, with direct access available at https://ocr.wmcloud.org/ (YouTube now a forbidden area for the spam filter)
  • Especially the Tesseract options, about the location and organization of the text in the page, are interesting
  • There are also options for rectangular areas / tables etc. (newspapers!)

Natalia tells about Community Tech projects concerning Wikisource (YouTube now a forbidden area for the spam filter)

(Environmental) sustainability

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Very interesting: about quickly reaching Sustainable Development Goals; with good transcript !!!!
wmde and wmfr have already signed the m:Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant <- wmnl?




Planning

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or

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or one of the parallel events in Building


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Links to youtube are hidden for now on this page. The spamfilter!