Re: Wikisource presentation at Wikimania

2012/3/12 Andrea Zanni <andrea.zanni <at> wikimedia.it>:
> Dear Wikisourcerors,
> I'm planning to go to Wikimania and submit a speech, which goes like:
> *Wikisource: what we've done, what we could do better* (or "What we
> got right, what we'd get better")
> http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikisource:_what_we%27ve_done,_what_we_could_do_better
>
> Anyway, the idea is very simple:
> 1. We need to talk about Wikisource at Wikimania. Period.

I submitted a talk about Wikisource, too:
https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_hundred-year_old_websites

The idea of my talk is to show how Wikisource projects are useful in
real life in surprising ways. Admittedly, some projects mentioned
there are my own pet projects. My plan was that for the Malayalam
Wikisource part i would invite a guest speaker; from what i heard
about it, this project deserves a whole talk of its own, but if no-one
else steps up, it will a part of mine.

I'm *totally* open for ideas. For example, my talk can be a part of
series of talks or of a panel. Or i could add other projects that
anybody would suggest to my talk. Or i can do a short presentation as
part of another talk, if anybody believes that this would be more
efficient.

> Nonetheless, Wikisources suffers significant flaws, as a proper
> metadata system (Dublin Core metadata, OAI-MPH complaint system),
> which prevents us to collaborate with
> other projects, as Europeana, or other digital libraries.