Wishing to inform the broader community that I have set up a shared project
"Wikisource-bot" to undertake archiving of talk pages on English Wikisource
(similar to MiszaBot, and ArchiverBot in other places). Presently I am
taking the bot through the bot approval process for English Wikisource.
It is also intended that this bot will take over at English Wikisource to
do the patrol work that was previously undertaken by JVbot in a past time.
John has offered to set the bot up when he has the time.
So the invitation is there for archiving talk pages at other wikis if you
have the need. I am happy to do the set up, though would require someone
at the local community to usher the bot through any local approvals, or I
could look for a global bot right (I am not fully acquainted with all the
WSes bot approval processes).
As bots at ToolLabs can be operated by shared maintainers, then if you have
some great ideas, we can look to utilise the space, and share the
maintenance.
Regards, Billinghurst
(a post that I made to [[s:en:WS:S]] )
>From the Tech News post [1] it is worth highlighting and starting
discussions on some of these aspects as they have some bearing on our
approach, or they could. There are a number of significant changes there.
Sister links in sidebar in beta
In the past few years we at enWS have utilised the adaptive template {{plain
sister <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:Plain_sister>}} to display
our xwiki sister links, and these have displayed within the respective
namespace headers (top right, generally in the notes section equivalents).
With Tpt's script in beta, there is now the ability to have sister links
displayed, for an example turn on the beta and look at Author:William
Shakespeare <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Shakespeare>. So
the community should be discussing whether we a) want just the existing
header links, b) want just sidebar links, or c) allow both to exist as
people will get used to sidebar links, however, more overt linking is
useful, especially in the eyeline
Linksto: search filter
This new search query allows us to undertake a new series of criteria for
search based on the target, and also allows us to use -linksto: which may
be a useful maintenance tool. Also useful for research searching, eg.
-linksto:"Author:Banjo
Paterson" "Banjo Paterson" which would return pages that mention Banjo
Paterson but do not link to the author page. As a community, I think that
there is definitely work for us to do to explore the options in
mw:Help:CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch> and
put some local spin on how to exploit the new power, and also with some of
the Extension:DynamicPageList
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList> uses. —
billinghurst <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Billinghurst> *sDrewth
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User_talk:Billinghurst>* 15:36, 1 September
2014 (UTC)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/36
Regards, Billinghurst
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70253
Following up on one of our discussion points at WM2014, I talked about the
categorisation of compendium works, and the ineffectiveness of the current
system approach.
Anyway, as discussed at that time, numbers of us said that we would find it
useful if we could have an alternate means to display categories, I have
submitted that bugzilla, and invite you to peruse it as covering the points
that we need, and for you to make any suggestions that would make the
proposal better, more fully functional and more broadly useful.
Regards, Billinghurst