Import books from Internet Archive to Wikisource

From Ewan McAndrew on August 25th, 2017

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Wikisource volunteer, Sam Wilson, demonstrates how to import texts from the Internet Archive on to Wikisource, Wikimedia's hyperlinked free digital library.

Using the IA Upload tool to get a DjVu of a book from the Internet Archive onto Wikisource (and Wikimedia Commons), and get it ready for proofreading.

IA Upload is here: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/

View the original video file on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DPg9Gw3-jE

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