I haven’t been able to spend a lot of volunteer time on Wikisource this year. So, instead of transcribing the 333 pages of History of India Vol II, I started validating Tagore’s work Nationalism. It’s a relatively small work, and Balajijagadesh and others had already done a great job transcribing and proof-reading it. The work is now fully done, ready to be downloaded and read. I even nominated it to be the featured text! This is my first time doing it, let’s see how it goes! 🤞🏾
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I am finally done with the transcription of History of India – Volume 1. You can help me proofread the whole thing on Wikisource, or download an EPUB for reading using WS Export (might take a while to load). Onto Volume 2 📚🤓
How to add {{missing images}} on Wikisource
Coming back to Wikisource after a few months’ hiatus I have forgotten how to do common tasks like adding images to pages. Making notes here to refer back to:
- Open the purple links (problematic pages with the
{{missing image}}
template). - Open that page on Commons and download the biggest available JPEG.
- Open the file in Photoshop.
Command + Shift + U
, to desaturate the image (if applicable).Command + L
, to bring up Levels. Use the “Sample the image to set a white point” options to get the correct colors.- Use the perspective crop tool if the image has a frame (lets you pick corners instead of a frame), normal crop if not.
- Save with a naming convention, usually – Title – Page Number – Book name.
- Use UploadWizard to upload images in bulk and copy over information like categories, date etc.
- Remove the
{{missing image}}
template in pages and use pre-established convention to add the images to the page.
Also see the help section on Wikisource, specifically about making some of these changes using a command line tool. I still need to understand what kind of templates to use when uploading the images to Commons.
Finished all the typing for History of India Volume I. The index is still remaining but I am not sure if an ebook really needs one. Now to cropping and adjusting the remaining images and uploading them to Commons.
After discovering the History of India books in the library I looked them up on Wikisource—they’re there, 📚 all ten volumes! I’ve been digitising it page by page, even setup some formatting guidelines and a Commons category for the images. This is going to be good fun… for a few years 🤓
It would be so much fun to add all the information here to Wikidata, Wikisource and Commons 😃