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A walk through Wikicommons & Wikisource
Wikiconference USA 2015
Jim Hayes (user:slowking4)
http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Wiksource_and_Commons_workshop
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Wikimedia Commons basics
It’s a wiki with millions of images and other files
• . . . for direct use in Wikipedias in any language
• . . . and for any other use
• . . . with practically infinite space
Managing and organizing all that is a lot of work, done by volunteers
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Tools to upload to Wikicommons
• Upload Wizard
• Commonist
• Flickr2Commons
• IA-upload
• GLAMwiki Toolset
• VicuñaUploader -- the one I use most
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LOC – 1617 Color FSA photos
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After upload, metadata cleanup
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Photos of living people
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Coverage of notable people
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Users of image upload tool
• David Shankbone –2413 (English 3150)
• Nv8200pa – 1555 (English 2485)
• Slowking4 – 1931 (English 1165)
• MacArthur Fellows – 279 (English 274)
• Living people articles on en.wp - 729,029
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php
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Wikisource is a wiki for original documents and searchable, free transcriptions of them
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Wikisource process
• Upload to Internet Archive
• Upload to Commons using IA-upload tool
• Create Index page; Work page on Wikisource
• Proofread & Validate
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Why EB1911 ?
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EB1911 Volume 1
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EB1911 Vol. 26
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Transcribing work of Joseph Plumb Martin
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Cleanup required
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CC born digital documents
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Transcription outside wiki
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Projects you can do now
Proofread something on Wikisource
Correct metadata on Commons
Or, discuss future of these systems
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Proofread_of_the_Month
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https://tools.wmflabs.org/add-information/no_information.php