IEG: Project status updates – February

by Omshivaprakash | Feb 24, 2016 | Wikipedia

• Localized the project page for Kannada Wiki for better collaboration with Community. ಸದಸ್ಯ:Omshivaprakash/ಯೋಜನೆಗಳು/ಕನ್ನಡ_ವಿಕಿಮೀಡಿಯ_ಯೋಜನೆಗಳನ್ನು_ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್‌_ಲೈಬ್ರರಿಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ_ಬೆಳಸುವುದು
• Crowd sourcing project pages reviewed to fix the flow.
• Requested community members & external resources to help us review the best books which should have a page in wiki
• Out of copyright books list created to be pushed to wiki source.
• Seeked further information on License issues – DLI and OUDL mark books as OUT_OF_COPYRIGHT which are questionable. Need better source to identify the books copyrights. \
• Initiated tests and activities to push the books to Internet Archive & to Wiki commons
• Requested help from community to get the commons books to wiki source.
• Officially requested Prajavani and other news paper agencies to share the E-Book information under Creative Commons license to build wiki pages effectively.
• Follow-ups done to check the status of content collaboration from news papers.
• Tested article creation on wiki – moved the new page creation to sandbox as stub articles are a big no for Kannada Wiki. Using sandbox would be a best start to train new wikipedians to build a complete page before pushing the articles to main namespace.
• Metadata review has been speeded up.