Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2012
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Wsexport : an automatic export tool for Wikisource fr
[edit]French Wikisource is working on an export tool in epub, odt and others formats. He is join to a website that automatically provide list of books from a category that mark that books are good for export. He works now only for the French Wikisource but we can imagine that he can be used for the others one. You are invited to test it here. The book metadatas harvesting in Wikisource is possible with this microformat implemented in most of French Wikisource templates. We will be glad if people of the others Wikisource works with us to provide a very good export of books ! The source-code of the tool and the website is available here. All help is welcome ! Tpt 21:13, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
WOW!!! We surely want to try it for Italian Wikisource! What do we need to do and how can we help you? Candalua 22:19, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
- This is awesome! As Candalua, I'm definetely interested in this. How we (Italian Wikisource, and maybe Wikimedia Italia) can help you? How could we start testing our books (do you think we could use your code to run our site as well?) Aubrey 00:04, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- The stand alone export tool is now available on the toolserver. You can try it for books of non-French Wikisources but it won't work fine until you implement the microformat in the book templates like Intestazione or Prooferead_pages_header_template. When it will be done the export tool can include many metadata on books and remove navigation templates that were "ws-export" html class. We can imagine also provide italian books in a website, the same like the French one or an other one from the same source. We are waiting you on github ! Tpt 11:14, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
- To implement the microformat, get a look a the end of fr:Modèle:Proofreadpage header template at the end of the template, the whole block of code export the necessary data used by the export tool. — Phe 11:26, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Great! I added some microformat info on it.source (title, author, translator, year for the moment) and it seems to get them. I also added class="ws-noexport" in MediaWiki:Proofreadpage pagenum template, to hide unnecessary page links. There's just a small annoyance because in our Pages we have a Also, is it possibile to call the toolserver page passing along the language, the page title, and the file format? So that we can generate a link "Export in ePub" directly from the Header template?
Thanks very much to all of you for this amazing work! Candalua 14:25, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello Tpt, is anywhere another place to post bugs? I have found small issues, and i think this thread here is not the perfect place for posting issues. But until we have a any bugfixing reporting tool (or whatever) i post the bugs that i found, also here. First: I think your bugfix for the issue one befor was not perfect, because links to the same page, anchor links like this , shows now a little bit strange ;-) . Here is now a http: what should not there. Second: It's a problem with german umlauts. You create the names of epub-file and included xhtml files a little bit wrong. You replace the german umlauts ü with eu, ä with ea and ö with eo. The correct replacement will be ue, ae and oe. It would be nice if you could fix these two small issues. And i have to say, it's a very cool tool. Greetings and i wish you and everyone a happy new year --Michail 00:52, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Tpt, congratulations on your work! By the way, have you considered merging your efforts with Extension:EPubExport, or reusing some of their code? There were some comments about this extension in Bugzilla --Micru 16:18, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
LjL-2012 on IRC said he found this: https://code.google.com/p/wikipediaconv/ . Doesn't seem very useful (full dump to ePub??) nor able to generate good output, but seems worth testing if someone has Windows, just to try. Nemo 18:04, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
An other thing : is someone volunteer to create a logo for the export tool and website(s) ? It will be a grate improvement. Tpt 20:11, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
Export tool integrate now a internationalisation system that works with a MediaWiki:Wsexport i18n.ini file. The reference file is here. An exemple in fr Wikisource Tpt 22:15, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
पूर्वीच्या मुंबईच्या सात बेटांपैकी एक बेट माझगाव : माझगाव हा शब्द माझं गाव आणि माझागोन (माझगाव वर पोर्तुगीज राज्य करीत होते) तर केथेलिक ह्याला माझगोन असेही म्हणत होते. हे सात बेटांपैकी एक बेट होय. माझगाव हा दक्षिण मुंबईचा विभाग असून रेल्वेच्या भायखला स्टेशन व हार्बरच्या डॉकयार्ड व सेंडहर्स्ट रोड स्टेशनने जोडले गेले आहे. माझगाव मध्ये केंद्र सरकारी संस्था जशा, मुंबई पोर्ट ट्रस्ट आणि माझगाव डॉक लिमिटेड असून, माझगाव कोर्ट किंवा न्यायालय देखील येथे आहे. इतकेच नव्हे तर येथे अेन्गलो इंडिअन शाळा असून त्यामध्ये सेंट पीटर आणि सेंट मेरी यांचा समावेश आहे.
माझगाव हा शब्द संस्कृत शब्द मत्स्य ग्राम या शब्दापासून तयार झाला आहे असे म्हणतात. याचा अर्थ माशांचा गाव असा होतो. येथील मूळ रहिवाशी हे आगरी आणि कोळी समाजाचे होते. याचबरोबर असेही मानण्यात येते कि माझगाव हा शब्द मराठी माझं गाव ह्या शब्दापासून तयार झाला आहे असे म्हणतात. माझगाव हा शब्द पोर्तुगीजान्पासून सुद्धा तयार झाला असावा असे म्हटले जाते. पूर्वीच्या काळी माझगाव हा विभाग आंब्याच्या झाडांसाठी फार प्रसिद्द होता. २० व्या शतकात देखील यांतील काही जाती दिसून आल्यात. हे छोटेसे बेट उत्तरेकडे वाढना-या छोट्या छोट्या डोंगरानि आणि बंदराकडील बाजूकडे किना-यांनी वेढलेले असून कोंकणाची आठवण करून देते. —unsigned comment by Mayurteem (talk) 16:32, 30 December 2011.
Bonjour et Bonne Année à tous, je ne sais plus où trouver le tableau de comparaison de différents Wikisource et leurs politiques respectives (scan, annotations, etc.) - Quelqu'un pourrait-il me redonner l'adresse, svp ? Merci d'avance,
Hello, and Happy New Year (a day late) : I lost the adress of the page which lists all wikisources and compares their policy (scan, notes, etc.) - Could someone point me again to it, please ? Thank you in advance…
--Hsarrazin 11:25, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Chiedo gentilmente a chi se ne occupa di aggiungere il supporto al formato epub in quanto esso è uno standard di fatto ed inoltre è un formato aperto e molto diffuso fra gli e-book reader.
Scusate se ho commesso errori ma non conosco molto bene il sito (come utente registrato).
GRAZIE PER L'ATTENZIONE
ps. I dont know english very well.
—unsigned comment by Jpalex (talk) 12:08, 4 January 2012.
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An export tool for Wikisource books, Wsexport, is currently in active development. It is a tool for exporting Wikisource's texts in EPUB, ODT and other file formats. It was created for French Wikisource, but it's also available for the other Wikisource subdomains. It can be used directly from its page on Toolserver.org (for texts in all languages, use "www" for oldwikisource), or browsing http://wsexport.fr.nf (currently only for French Wikisource's texts).
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Tpt (d) 21:19, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
Please discuss here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/All_files_copyrighted_in_the_US_under_the_URAA --Historiograf 21:07, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
I'm dragging into vector interface customization, (adding/removing buttons and popups into toolbar [1]; adding/removing tools into sidebar; adding "tattoos"; adding to toolbar draggable() feature; and so on). Don't presume any special js skill by me; I only put into practice the pedia principle "be bold". :-(
Now, I've a bad (but rewarding) attitude to "rediscover the wheel", as my patient it.source fellows know very well; so I'm asking here: is some of you working about similar goal and tricks? Is there a page to discuss this kind of topics to share "just rediscovered wheels"? ;-) --Alex brollo 07:42, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I imported the Marathi pages to the newly created mr.wikisource.org subdomain (see mr:special:log/import or my userpage there for a list). These can probably be deleted here now. --MF-Warburg 17:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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I requested Import Upload privileges back in October (since archived, see this thread). Candalua and Ooswesthoesbes supported, there were no opposes. This action requires a local decision, probably by a crat and a request at the Steward request page on meta. We currently still have the problem that Transwiki import is enabled but broken due to some local settings (I submitted a bugzilla back in November, no action yet Bugzilla:32411). I have been waiting since October to be able to import a template from de.ws that is holding up work on a project but more importantly, we should have a few people around who can do this (Jusjih can, both as a steward and as a local import uploader but 1 person is clearly not enough as they aren't around day-to-day). Additionally, for large imports import upload is more useful. I re-post my request for further consideration or closure.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:26, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
In October I started a thread on accounts with privileges that they don't seem to need: Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/Jan_2011_-_Dec_2011#Stale_bots_and_sysops. The thread included at least 4 comments in favor of deflagging Wolfbot and CSNbot and at least 2, maybe 3 for desysopping User:ThomasBot (no comments in favor of the bot remaining a sysop, just questions about whether he's coming back from others). I think we have enough to deflag to the two bots. Can we get that done? I will start a separate thread on the Sysop flag because there are other inactive sysops that we should discuss.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 03:26, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Reference the discussion above and the one it references last October, I have started a pro forma desysop discussion on three sysops (ThomasBot, LadyInGrey, and Maximillion Pegasus) at Wikisource:Administrators#Vote_for_removal_of_administrator_privileges. The reasons are entirely for inactivity. I was going to include User:Dungodung but I noticed they have about a dozen recent log actions after some very long periods of inactivity, so I left them out. Please discuss at the Administrators page, not here.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 04:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi to all. Just saw one of the techs pop into the Wikisource IRC channel, and that was a good indication that they have updated our mediawiki software. Please report errors or discrepancies that you see. I am not sure whether you would like to keep a record here of identified issues, or whether you would like to add them at en:WS:S#Issues log for mediawiki update to 1.19wmf1 billinghurst sDrewth 12:29, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
There's a new tool for namespace Page, that shows one or more tabs with a link to the texts that trasclude the current page. You can see it in action on Page:Fluors_alpinas.djvu/20 and the following pages (the tab "Text" near the up arrow). It was developed for it.source by it:User:Alex brollo, and it's now available for all subdomains (instructions on MediaWiki:TranscludedIn.js). Candalua (talk) 16:23, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Fixed, now it uses the native mediawiki function to get the encoded url. Thank you very much. Candalua (talk) 18:05, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I was trying to find a guide for creating a Wikisource in a new language and couldn't find one. I can write one myself, but i'm just making sure that there isn't one already... Is there? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Take a look at bug 18861 on Bugzilla. In short - at the moment, any content generated by templates is ignored by the search engine, i.e. pages transcluded in proofread extension. That means that over 50% of content on multiple Wikisource projects (i.e. French, Polish or Norvegian) is inaccessible to search engine. However, with recent developments on Bugzilla it seems that the problem will not be resolved in the foreseeable future. --Teukros (talk) 18:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
I have the project to rewrite and improve some of the Wikisource:Shared Scripts with the new mediawiki JS libs and create new ones using our new amazing microformat system, so I request adminship in this wiki in order to work without asking each hours. Tpt (talk) 18:22, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Any suggestions on how to proceed?
PS: This website seems to have works too, although in a non-unicode font.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 02:44, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Siddharta,
this is the right place to start adding Punjabi texts. I see from the 2 texts in Category:Punjabi that you already guessed which templates to use (Header + Textinfo). If you want, you can also create a copy of those templates and translate/adapt them for Punjabi. Many languages have the habit of placing Textinfo in the talk page, but I find it very disturbing, I worry that many readers will probably not found it; my advice is to put textinfo in the same page of the text. Best solution I think is to create a new template using the content of both Header and Textinfo; but feel free to do what you prefer. You can also create a Main page/pa (or whatever you prefer to name it) on the example of these ones. It would be better to have works with scans, but if you can't find any, no problem. Good work! :-) And ask if you need anything else :-) Candalua (talk) 21:22, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Just a note. The mainpage should state that the X+ ones are the subdomains, the wikisource.org part is the oldWS list and A-Z contains both of them.
I just spent the past few hours trying to dig up how to add the oldWS langs into the X+ parts and writing up comments for that correction (which I didn't post) before finding out that the X+'s are only subdomains.
The interwiki link color isn't different enough from the wikilink color to suffice as differentiation in itself. Without a heading or statement giving this fact, there's no way for non-WSians to differentiate between the two types.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 08:57, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
If some of you wants to add languages:
I changed protection so that autoconfirmed users can edit them. Candalua (talk) 18:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
I absolutely agree that the colours are too similar, but to change them we should discuss at a higher level than here :-) Anyway, non-Wikisourcians readers probably do not bother to know if the link points to a subdomain or not. They just want to go to the main page for a given language, wherever it is. It's also right, in my opinion, that for German and Polish there's only the link to the subdomain; the texts hosted here should be pointed from there. (By the way, I will never understand why a text cannot be hosted on de.source due to copyright, but it can be hosted on oldwikisource... we are the same site! we share the same servers! what's the difference?) Candalua (talk) 21:36, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
I just added a request for adminship for me. Figured it was about time and started to ask someone to nom me but realized we don't seem to do that here. Also, while you're about it, please take note of my request above for import upload rights, above, it's really getting stale; I had to bring it forward as it had gotten archived. I think we should avoid archiving matters that aren't actioned, especially those from late in the year. Thanks.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 13:45, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the whole content of Category:Gujarati has now been imported to the newly created http://gu.wikisource.org subdomain. So they can probably deleted here now. In case any pages are missing, please tell me and I'll import them too. --MF-Warburg (talk) 21:55, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
This still hasn't been done... why? -- Liliana-60 (talk) 18:52, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Currently some author pages use the "Author:" prefix, other do not. I propose this rule: all author pages must have the "Author:" prefix, so that they are correctly counted to be in the author namespace, and not in the main namespace. Pages that use a different prefix or no prefix should be moved. Redirects can stay. Candalua (talk) 07:39, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Author is a real namespace, it was created with bug30724 and pages starting with Author: were moved from ns0 to the new namespace. Maybe it's just the watchlist that's broken. Candalua (talk) 12:19, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
I have nominated -jkb- for removal of crat privileges. I don't find any evidence of a vote or discussion and the user has never logged an action as a crat since they were promoted in March 2011; they actually haven't logged an admin action since before that, so I've nominated them separately for removal of that privilege as well - to be consistent with others and because there is a 6 mos inactivity practice here. Please take notice of the discussion at Wikisource:Administrators#-jkb-_2. I placed the discussion there because the Crat page has only been used for crat requests not for nominations and decrat actions.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 12:32, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Historically it hasn't taken much to desysop for inactivity. I understand that Ooswesthoesbes doesn't support the practice in general as noted above; however, it's been going on for several years and was discussed in the past so I won't address that here. In several cases, inactive users have been desysopped with only two votes, including the nom. While low, we aren't a very active site for such discussions and the general premise is that the user obviously doesn't need the bit right now and can ask for it back anytime, so it's low cost. Some of the users may have permanently retired (in ThomasV's case it's at least semi-permanent, unfortunately).
Does anyone object to summarily closing discussions with a result of removal of the bit if the discussion stays open for 30 days with no support for retention? Currently that would affect ThomasBot and Maximillion Pegasus.
How about where there is one or more supports for retention, a close by an uninvolved user or after no less than 30 days?
I've noticed some discussions historically have stayed open for more than a year, which is silly.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 09:13, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
I have created a tracking bug at bugzilla:35925, this bug is intended to list all bugs that are of special interest to wikisource. Just add any relevant bug to the "Depends on" field. Do not remove bugs when they are resolved, they'll simply be crossed out on the list when they are closed as resolved or dups or whatever.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 16:50, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2012/Bug 32189
The new version of Mediawiki that will be deployed the April 28th (more info) will bring new features to ProofreadPage : The tag We can, of course, use all the attributes on the same tag. By example Please take note of en:Wikisource:Scriptorium#Other_issues and particularly en:Wikisource:Scriptorium#Proposal. This discussion appears to be resolving now in favor of activating the class for all namespaces. The discussion really should've taken place here but as it's nearly resolved in favor of the less restrictive use I'm not moving or transcluding it. Please note though that this will require local changes to CSS to either enable or disable the colors, depending on which is the default.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 10:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Redundancy? I took a look at PG's site and searched here, but all I could find is a brief and old discussion at en.ws about the overlapping nature of WS and PG. Have either of these communities had a serious discussion about what appear to be redundant mission statements? Is it possible to integrate one into the other? Koavf (talk) 02:24, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi! New version of ProofreadPage extension is available for testing on test2. List of some changes:
If you find any errors please file a bug on bugzilla, so we can fix the issues before the upcoming deployment. Beau (talk) 07:29, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
I have asked one of the gadget developers at Commons to assist adapt a tool for our use.
The current problem is that when in transcription mode with Proofread Page, there are occasions when the image is not generated properly, and it is difficult to purge the thumbnail. This application adds a PURGE tab to the top right in vector/monobook skins, which should then purges stubborn image file. To identify where and when is needed is a little sporadic as we don't know when the thumbnail generators for commons will play up, hence the call for vols, and to request your feedback. [Note: Only tested in monobook and vector skins]
To trial the application, add the following text to your file Special:MyPage/common.js
Please provide your feedback (preferably at enWS), so I can look to how we can update, preserve and manage the gadget. Thanks. billinghurst sDrewth 03:25, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
The bot mades the same function at many wikis & Commons & Meta and Wikispecies. I'm sorry for doing many test edits. Thank you.--M.Gedawy 22:29, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello, what has happened to Special:Statistics. For instance, on Croatian Wikisource, the count dropped from +7.900 to 5.003 (see: hr:Posebno:Statistika). On Serbian Wikisource the count dropped for about 1.000 (see: sr:Посебно:Статистике). Did the OldWikisource experience a simmilar drop? -- Bugoslav (talk) 17:24, 13. V. 2012. (CEST)
These changes in the stats are the result of bug33253. The original goal was actually to fix the page count, but it looks like the new numbers are just as inaccurate and wrong as the old ones... Candalua (talk) 19:21, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
It looks like our interwiki links are now pointing by default to Wikipedia, instead of Wikisource. This is a regression because this was fixed just some months ago. I'm reopening bug29591. Candalua (talk) 09:23, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I recall having read somewhere that a forum would be created where we could ask for help proofreading phrases/quotes in languages other than that in which a text is written, where native speakers could go over it, and make sure that it has been proofread correctly. E.g. book is written in French, includes a quote in Russian; book is written in English, includes a phrase in Chinese; or book is written in German, includes a quote in Italian.
Currently, I am proofreading a book that compares Sanskrit grammar to that of Old Norse, and it includes quite a few Sanskrit words and phrases (in Devanagari), which I cannot read. As the book was published in the 1840s and the scan isn't very good, it's not always easy deciphering the Devanagari characters. (Some are quite different from those of today. For instance, in some places, rather than the structure half consonant-full consonant of modern Devanagari (pr. Wikipedia article), it uses the structure full consonant-subscript consonant.) I'm especially uncertain because there at times seems to be a mismatch between the Devanagari and the transcription. (Especially aspiration seems to fall out every now and then.) Although the scan has low quality, it's still possible to proofread it, as words that are unclear, can be guessed from content, whereas for Sanskrit words, which I don't know, I can't really guess at...
Has such a forum been created, where I could request such help? V85 (talk) 11:14, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
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I see (as pointed into it.source scriptorium) that links from Main Page to other Wikisource projects are wrong, they point to Wikipedia insetad of to Wikisource. Can a sysop fix it? Thanks! --Alex brollo (talk) 18:21, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
At least the French and the Norwegian Wikisource has added the modernisation tool mentioned here. The script is based on a dictionary where old, archaic words and the modern versions are listeed. When the user clicks "modernize", the script replace all old words with the modern ones in the text (according to the dictionary). My question: could some look at the oppotunity of combining this dictionary to Wiktionary, so instead for a special list of words, the script uses Wiktionary as source. Thanks. --Anjar (talk) 15:42, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello Wikisourcerers,
I have created a page Author:Giuseppe Peano and I'd like to move it to a category in the Interlingua language. What is the Interlingua word for Author? --Zyephyrus (talk) 00:18, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
I would like to request adding macrons to MediaWiki:SpecialChars.js using the format of =a for ā. Related discussion at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Keyboard_shortcuts Jeepday (talk) 00:04, 15 July 2012 (UTC)
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The WMF board collected questions at the Wikimania conference and has now published them at Meta. Two of the questions are relevant to Wikisource:
Answers are still pending, though. --AFBorchert (talk) 15:35, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
May be someone want to comment something about this: http://www.wikisource.com.ar/index.php?title=P%C3%A1gina_principal Best regards, --LadyInGrey (talk) 23:46, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
A note to the broader Wikisource community that I am going to propose to have my name added to the OTRS queue for "Sister projects::Wikisource" which has partial access to info-queues@ email address. I am in OTRS on a regular basis for stewardry reasons, so poking my head onto Wikisource related matters in English. If there are any reasons that people believe that I should not then please bring them forward. By the way, I have found it difficult to identify who is sitting with access to that mail queue, does anyone actually know? All I do know is that User:AFBorchert, and User:Bookofjude have/had rights. billinghurst sDrewth 11:04, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I uploaded here User:Alex brollo/Library.js, containing too an interesting parseMetadata() function. I launched a thread about this function both into Wikitech-l and into Wikisource-l; I usually work into it.wikisource but here I ttook the opportunity to fix some "international" settings so making tests - I hope - simpler for interested people. Thanks for hosting.
parseMetadata() gets html of a File: information page, so allowing use of any data stored there, even if file is stored in Commons. Test it, if you like, simply importing User:Alex brollo/Library.js and launching from a js console (I usually use Chrome console) parsemetadata() without parameter from any page (Index, Page or proofread ns0) logically linked to a djvu file --Alex brollo (talk) 15:34, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
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As some of you might already have heard Wikimedia Deutschland is working on a new Wikimedia project. It is called m:Wikidata. The goal of Wikidata is to become a central data repository for the Wikipedias, its sister projects and the world. In the future it will hold data like the number of inhabitants of a country, the date of birth of a famous person or the length of a river. These can then be used in all Wikimedia projects and outside of them.
The project is divided into three phases and "we are getting close to roll-out the first phase". The phases are:
It'd be great if you could join us, test the demo version, provide feedback and take part in the development of Wikidata. You can find all the relevant information including an FAQ and sign-up links for our on-wiki newsletter on the Wikidata page on Meta.
For further discussions please use this talk page (if you are uncomfortable writing in English you can also write in your native language there) or point me to the place where your discussion is happening so I can answer there.
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... on the situation. It is since a long time the same but in the last time quite extremely: there are too many new created accounts and to many of them are spaming a short time later. If somebody creates an account like User:HarrisonZT or something like that, so it can be OK, although I would like to know why he creates the accont manually and not automatically per SUL (normally, a user who comes here, should be expected to be a user from another project). But there is a growing amount of new here created accounts like Mkgxoamb, Da86ml75le or Fhef653d that do nothing or that are spamming here after a time. At the moment there is a plenty of deleted pages with a spam for Louis V[redacted] and similar. Sure, we are an open project and everybody should havbe the possibility to join it; and, at the moment it is still not very bothering to delete the present amount of pages. Wikisource:Metadata has just been created, but it could use more expansion. Please help to make it a useful resource! (Related thread: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Needed:_Wikisource:Metadata) --Piotrus (talk) 16:10, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
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Please translate for your local community
Hello All,
The Wikimedia Foundation's Fundraising team have begun our 'User Experience' project, with the goal of understanding the donation experience in different countries outside the USA and enhancing the localization of our donation pages. I am searching for volunteers to spend 30 minutes on a Skype chat with me, reviewing their own country's donation pages. It will be done on a 'usability' format (I will ask you to read the text and go through the donation flow) and will be asking your feedback in the meanwhile.
The only pre-requisite is for the volunteer to actually live in the country and to have access to at least one donation method that we offer for that country (mainly credit/debit card, but also real-time banking like IDEAL, E-wallets, etc...) so we can do a live test and see if the donation goes through. All volunteers will be reimbursed of the donations that eventually succeed (and they will be low amounts, like 1-2 dollars)
By helping us you are actually helping thousands of people to support our mission of free knowledge across the world. Please sing up and help us with our 'User Experience' project! :)
If you are interested (or know of anyone who could be) please email ppena@wikimedia.org. All countries needed (excepting USA)!
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Catalan Wikisource is broken. Try ca:Special:Recentchanges or browse any book from ca:Special:Indexpages (e.g. ca:Index:Llegendes catalanes): Huzzah for Nemo_bis, Bugzilla:32411 is now fixed and Transwiki import now functions mostly correctly. I say mostly because although imports can now be made, we seem to suffer from the same problem that la.ws has Bugzilla:30723, the logs are going to be a mess; at least we can import. :-)--Doug.(talk • contribs) 00:46, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Could some users - preferably admins - have a view at Wikisource:Proposed deletions#Von dem Fischer un syner Fru? Is Doug right in his opinion? --::Slomox:: >< 13:12, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Can someone help? :) --Accurimbono (talk) 09:45, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Valhallasw (talk) 18:34, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I recently performed a CheckUser block on 98.255.32.20 (talk • contribs • global contribs) on en.wiki as the IP is being used by an individual as one of many to promote "America's next new singer (season 2)." Given that they have now moved to Wikiversity I ask that their contributions be deleted and the IP blocked. Thanks, Tiptoety talk 01:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
I've started Wikisource:WSexport, to gather all informations about the necessary configuration. Candalua 15:09, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
माझगाव - पूर्वीच्या मुंबईच्या सात बेटांपैकी एक बेट
[edit]Comparaison des sites Wikisoure
[edit]Aggiungere il supporto al formato epub in "carica un file"
[edit]Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta
[edit]Wsexport: an automatic export tool for Wikisource
[edit]Yesterday: Dies ater for the PUBLIC DOMAIN
[edit]Vector interface customization
[edit]Marathi WS
[edit]MediaWiki 1.19
[edit]Import Upload - revisited
[edit]Stale bots and sysops discussion from last year
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Stale Sysops
[edit]Wikisources' software application updated to 1.19wmf1
[edit]new tool
[edit]Help for creating a Wikisource in a new language
[edit]Problem on Bugzilla
[edit]Punjabi (pa)
[edit]I was wondering why there isn't a punjabi wikisourceNo community, no wonder. I know atleast one author (w:en:Bulleh Shah) whose works are in punjabi and in the public domain. Plus, I happen to have some of the works. I can type punjabi. I cannot get a scan of the works. I do not know panjabi enough to start a wikisource on my own.nor is one person community enough Panjabi wikipedia has very little or no community to ask for help (haven't tried to ask there yet).
Main page
[edit]Another request for adminship
[edit]Gujarati Wikisource
[edit]author namespace
[edit]De-crat
[edit]Desop votes - closing?
[edit]Tracking Bug for Wikisource
[edit]Bug 32189 and the mul.ws question
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New features in ProofreadPage
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Thanks! Splendid news! :) --Zyephyrus (talk) 09:16, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Done I have pasted it: is it correct? --Zyephyrus (talk) 22:21, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Notice of a css class discussion on EN that affects all subdomains
[edit]Wikisource and Project Gutenberg
[edit]New version of ProofreadPage
[edit]Trial of thumbnail regenerator — volunteer testers?
[edit]// test of thumbnail regenerator [[File:User:Rillke/forWikisource.js]]
mw.loader.load('//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rillke/forWikisource.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
Bot flag for GedawyBot
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interwiki links pointing to wikipedia instead of wikisource
[edit]Language help
[edit]Update on IPv6
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2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See e.g. w:en:IPv6 address. These addresses should behave like any other IP address: You can leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions; you can block them. (See the full version of this announcement for notes on range blocks.)
2011 Picture of the Year competition
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Mobile view as default view coming soon
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lists.wikimedia.org.
Main page links are wrong
[edit]Thanks! :) --Zyephyrus (talk) 08:27, 30 June 2012 (UTC)A modernisation tool
[edit]Keyboard shortcuts
[edit]Help decide about more than $10 million of Wikimedia donations in the coming year
[edit]WMF Board and Wikisource
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Comments
[edit]OTRS queue
[edit] Done, to note that queue is empty billinghurst sDrewth 02:04, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
parseMetadata()
[edit]Request for Comment: Legal Fees Assistance Program
[edit]Wikidata is getting close to a first roll-out
[edit]Some thoughts ...
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But maybe somebody has an idea how to prevent this in the future. So for example a I started to block such accounts with "Prevent account creation" activated as it could probably prevent creating new spamming account if the comes from the same range (like the spamming of louis vuiton probably does, I guess). But shouldn't we try to ask a check user to get the IPs of such accounts to get the very IP range? Or at least we would know if these accounts use open proxies. -jkb- (talk) 14:38, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
Needed: Wikisource:Metadata
[edit]Upcoming software changes - please report any problems
[edit]Fundraising localization: volunteers from outside the USA needed
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Pats Pena
Global Fundraising Operations Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
Bug in mediawiki configuration
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There is a bug in mediawiki configuration: the ProofreadPage Page namespace is set to be number 250 in the $wgProofreadPageNamespaceIds[page] PHP configuration parameter and number 102 in the page Mediawiki:proofreadpage_namespace. Update your LocalSettings.php adding $wgProofreadPageNamespaceIds[page] = /* NUMERICAL ID OF THE Page NAMESPACE */; AFTER the inclusion of Proofread Page and delete Mediawiki:proofreadpage_namespace page.
I think there is a promotion of software in course. If tomorrow morning continues, I'll open a bugzilla; but any suggestion will be welcome! -Aleator 01:36, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Transwiki import fixed - mostly
[edit]it.wikisource is down
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[edit] Done but this isn't Wikiversity, this is Wikisource.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 02:18, 3 December 2012 (UTC)