I've started it on [1].
It's unfortunate that due to licensing issues (ns:Help is CC0 on
mediawiki.org wiki) we can't transwiki some existing pages from
Wikisources. So, specially because it, a lot of help is needed.
While writing those initial pages I just realized that there is no guide to
help new subdomain wikis (or some already created) to learn our very
specific topics (copyright and public domain issues, how to research for
digitizations, scans quality issues etc), only the specific help pages on
each subdomain.
In my view this will be helpful not only for those new or small
Wikisources, but also for subdomain coordination. The [2] is messy and
almost unmanageable...
Is anyone interested to work on it?
[1] -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ProofreadPage
[2] -
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Subdomain_coordination
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Thomas Tanon <thomaspt(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
Hi!
The ProofreadPage lack of documentation is a real problem since the
creation of the extension. For example, I discovered in 2012 that some
en.wikisource administrators didn't know the very useful header=1 parameter
of the <pages> tag.
Currently the installation and configuration documentation is stored on
the extension page on
MediaWiki.org [1]. But, about the user documentation
(parameters of <pages> tag...) there is no authoritative source, only some
partial pages on oldWikisource and on help pages of language based wikis.
I really believe that this big issue should be fix. I think the best way
to do it is to create a central documentation page for end users in the
Help namespace of
MediaWiki.org, that would document all the features of
the ProofreadPage extension and be updated when things change in the
extensions. It would be written in English and then translated in the same
place using the Translate extension, so all Wikisources should be able to
replace their own partial documentation with this centralized version.
But, because of my lack of free time, I don't feel able to archive this
goal alone. Is there someone ready to start the work by collecting data
disseminated on oldWikisource and one some language based Wikisource and
start this page [3]? I'm ready to help for the not documented yet parts. It
doesn't requires technical skills, only a knowledge on how to use
ProofreadPage. So I think that any experienced Wikisource contributor is
able to do it.
Many thanks to the person that will do it, who will have the eternal
gratitude of the Wikisource community.
Thomas
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page
[2]
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ProofreadPage
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