Hello Indic Wikisource member,
As you may already know, CIS-A2K has launched Indic Wikisource
Proofreadthon in the interest of collecting, enhancing, and expanding
knowledge to encourage and stay home in the current COVID19 crisis.
Are you preparing for the Proofreadthon?
Can we use this mailing list to coordinate and understand how many
proofreadthon will be there?
* The Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_wikisource_proofreadthon
WHAT DO YOU NEED
* a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some
classical books of your language. The book should not be available in any
third party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books
and add here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Book_list
*As participants
Kindly sign your name at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Participants
*Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this Proofreadthon
and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers are also as a
participant in this Proofreadthon.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Participants
* Some social media coverage
I would request to all indic Wikisource community member please spread the
news to all social media channel, we always try to convince it your
Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use
your own Wikisource site notice.
* some awards
There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.
* A way to count validated and proofread pages.
https://wscontest.toolforge.org/
* Time
In India, Proofreadthon will run: from 01 May 2020 00.01 to 10 May 2020
23.59
* Rules and guidelines
The basic rules and guideline have described here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Rules
* scoring
The details scoring method have described at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Rules#
Scoring_system
I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this year at-home
quarantine.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K