Wikisource:Wikisource vision development/Open community poll
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This is a community poll prepared by the Wikisource User Group to learn how to make Wikisource a better place. Answers are open, results are non-binding, but they will help to establish priorities at international level.
- After this draft is completed, we are going to make a survey via Google (or SurveyMonkey) and send to every Wikisource Village Pump.
- OPTIONAL PERSONAL QUESTIONS
- main language wikisource(s)
- country
- age
- sex
- occupation
- adminship
- start year of Wikisource usership
- I'm not a Wikisource user, my main project is: ...
What is allowed in your Wikisource?
[edit]- Y/N/Not now, but I would like to.
- User generated translations
- Annotations (ex. )
- Wikilinks to Wikisource (ex. )
- Interlinks to Wikipedia or sister projects
- Notes: .......
- Don't know
- Please take the time to update also this table.
Would you like user translations to be ...
[edit]- Choose one
- On a different namespace
- With a specific extension, like this one.
- I don't want user translations on Wikisource.
- No opinion or don't know
Do you use the Proofread extension?
[edit]- Choose one
- Yes. We only accept books backed with scans.
- Yes. We mostly accept books backed with scans.
- Yes. We accept books backed with scans, but they are few.
- No. (Reason: .....)
- Don't know
In my opinion, Wikisource should include
[edit]- Y/N (check all that apply)
- copied and pasted texts (ie. without scans)
- manually transcribed text from offline books (ie. without scans)
- born digital texts (ie. not physically printed)
- texts backed by page scans
What is your opinion about customizing the Visual Editor for Wikisource once the bugs have been fixed?
[edit]- It's very important / It's important / It's OK / It's not important / Do not know
Which features are a “must”?
[edit]- Y/N (check all that apply)
- ability to copy and paste formatted text
- integration with the Proofread extension (support for the Page: pages and the <pages> tag)
- Other
Are you interested in GLAM partnerships with Wikisource?
[edit]- Choose one
- yes
- I'd like to, but Wikisource is not ready yet.
- no
- No strong opinion
I would like Wikisource to partner with
[edit]- Y/N (check all that apply)
- Project Gutenberg
- Internet Archive
- Google Books
- Open Library
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- Other ...
- Explain what you would like to see: ....
What do you think it is necessary for Wikisource to cope with GLAM partnerships?
[edit]- Y/N (check all that apply)
- metadata management
- XML export
- TEI markup
- Other .....
- I don't know
What do you see in the future of Wikisource?
[edit]- Y/N (check all that apply)
- Annotations
- TEI markup[1]
- Highlighting concepts as the Perseus Library
- Gamification and microtasking as on Zooniverse
- Companion Bots always ready to read aloud perfectly exact texts available in the widest library in the world including all known languages and all known texts.
- Supplying theatrical creations, musical creations, teaching tools, intellectual researches, artistic creations, encyclopedias, lots of other usages that we can't imagine now: supplying all of them with a complete library of exact, whole, and verifiable texts.
- Please write us about the Wikisource of your dreams. You can say anything you want.
What do you think are the core priorities for the Wikisource community?
[edit]- Please select a priority from 1 (lowest priority) to 10 (highest priority). There are no ex aequo.
- EPUB exporter, active in every Wikisource and every language[2]
- Metadata management system
- Visual Editor in the main namespace
- Visual Editor in the Page namespace
- Localized OCR, with possibility of training in every language (eg. ABBYY Finereader[3])
- Wikidata integration
- Other
What do you think are the biggest obstacles for the Wikisource community?
[edit]- Please select a degree of magnitude from 1 (no/minor obstacle) to 10 (largest obstacle).
- Lack of volunteers
- Lack of available scanned texts
- Lack of public awareness
- Lack of support within the Wikimedia community
- Lack of necessary technology
- Other
- If 'Other', please explain...
Write the three main technical/social issues that the Wikisource community should try to solve during the next years
[edit]- Choose up to three
- To ensure a common standard both in wikitext and in resulting xhtml
- To build a shared, multilingual "proofreading lab"
- Training materials including videos
- Publicity to possible sources of funding for software development
- Integration with Wikidata in basic noncontroversial ways
Google Summer of Code projects
[edit]- Free text
- What do you think of the BookManagerv2 under development?
- Which features should it have to be considered usable?
- Would you support automatic creation of “Index” pages for all DjVu files uploaded to Commons in your language?
Are you aware of Wikidata and d:Wikidata:Books Task Force?
[edit]- Choose one
- Yes
- Yes, but I don't work on Wikidata
- No
- Notes
In the following months, Wikidata will integrate all the sister projects, and Wikisource too.
- Every Wikisource community is invited to participate in the discussion about Wikidata-Wikisource integration.
Do you think any property is missing in Wikidata?
[edit]See this model and an example.
- Free text
Do you want to celebrate the international 10th anniversary of Wikisource on November 24, 2013?
[edit]- Choose one
- Yes
- No
- If yes, which activity would you suggest?
Notes
[edit]- ↑ TEI markup is a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. With a proper TEI extension or tool, we could mark up works collaboratively. This tool could be very interesting for GLAMs and academics working in Digital Humanities. Tpt wrote a converter "TEI to Wikitext".
- ↑ At the moment, the tool generatea an EPUB from the transcluded text of a book in Wikisource. The tool is active but only few Wikisource use it widely, as there is no integration within MediaWiki.
- ↑ ABBYY Finereader is a state-of-the-art OCR software. It is proprietary, but it supports many languages, and it also supports DjVu.