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Exploring the Main Page on Wikisource

A video exploring Wikisource's Main Page. Wikisource, the free library

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How to make an account on Wikisource

A video explaining how to create an account on Wikisource, the free online digital library managed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource Main Page: Wikisource, the free library

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OCR and other tools for Wikisource

SpeakersRuthven Sam Wilson Natalia Rodriguez AbstractAn overview of recent developments with tools for Wikisource, including the new OCR tool.Wikisource is a project that makes use of several…

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Introduction to Wikisource - Wikipedia's sister project and the free digital hyper library

Introduction to Wikisource - Wikipedia's sister project and the free digital hyper library How to get started uploading open-licenced books to be OCR-ed and proofread and linked to Wikipedia.…

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Wikipedia and Libraries - Interview with Digital Curator, Gavin Willshaw

Gavin Willshaw is the Digital Curator of the University of Edinburgh. In March 2018, he was interviewed about his experiences editing Wikipedia, adding image collections to Wikimedia Commons, adding…

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Creating Wikisource author pages

An introduction to creating author pages on English Wikisource, Wikipedia's sister project, by Wikisource volunteer Sam Wilson. Works with non-existent author pages:…

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Import books from Internet Archive to Wikisource

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…

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Wikimania 2017 - Lightning talks

Wikimania 2017 - Day 3, 11am Lightning talks https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talks Moderator: Léna Integration of Wikidata into Wikivoyage Let's Take the…

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Introduction to Wikisource - The Free Content Library

The Introduction to Wikisource session was recorded at Repository Fringe 2016 at the University of Edinburgh on 2nd August 2016 as part of the Wikidata & Wikisource Showcase event. 1.Wikisource…

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Wikimania 2016 - Projects: Wikisource, OpenStreetMap

by Andrea Zanni and Simone Cortesi In this session, Andrea Zanni and Simone Cortesi give a basic introduction to Wikisource and OpenStreetMap, sister projects of Wikipedia. Wikisource is a digital…

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"Your OERs will outlive you: Open Education in the long term" - Martin Poulter at Repo Fringe 2016

Dr Martin Poulter is the past Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, former Wikimedia Ambassador for Jisc, and promotes open education in the Economics Network based at the…

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Wikisource and Wikibooks: Open education on Wikipedia’s sister projects - Martin Poulter at OER16

This presentation by Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian Library, is a critical look inside some of Wikipedia’s sister projects. Wikipedia is successful as a highly-used…

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Navigating Wikipedia's front page

A quick look at the main features of Wikipedia's front page.

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