Hi Bodhisattwa,
regarding your first proposal,
I'm not sure to understand the advantages of having hundreds thousands
books in Commons, right now.
Commons manages metadata poorly, Internet Archive is much more efficient.
I do find that the added value is when the book is in WIkisource, but this
means that we need people doing that, human curation. So I find IA upload
tool perfect in this regard: it helps you do it when you want to do it,
quickly.
For the second bot, I think the problem is simply that every wikisource is
different, and creating good index pages is more art than science.
Moreover, there is the problem I said before.
But probably your situation is different: if you want to populate a *new*
Wikisource, what you say makes sense. That would be a bot "on demand": you
gave him a list of IA identifiers, he does all the work.
Aubrey
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Two questions-
1) Is there any bot running which can use the IA upload tool to transfer
files from Internet Archive to Commons? I see lots and lots of public
domain files in IA but they are not present in Commons. Its next to
impossible to be done manually.
2) Is there any bot running, which can create index pages in respective
language Wikisources, whenever a pdf or djvu files are uploaded from IA?
If they are not present, can theses bot accounts be created?
Regards
--
Bodhisattwa
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