We fixed a djvu file adding some missing pages. Now, something strange
appears. Take a look at
http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Pagina:Delle_strade_ferrate_e_della_loro_futu….
Then enter in edit mode. The thumb showed in view mode comes from the old,
wrong page; the thumb showed in edit mode is the right one.
Can we force purging of such old thumb/image, presumably saved somewhere
from the old djvu file?
Alex
Hi to all,
Following the resolution of the Line Feed addition Bugzilla:26028 [1], I have been
requested at multiWS:S to run a clean up across the broader Wikisource community.
en/fr/it/la wikis have already done through local fixes or SDrewthbot; and I presume that
deWS has their's under control.
I have recorded the detail of fix at a subpage to my bot account[2]. My plan was to run
through with this identified account, though obviously not flagged as a bot at a slow
rate.
If it is not desired for me to run SDrewthbot through your xxWS, then please get back to
me and I will desist.
Please get back to me if you would like more information or need for me to clarify things.
[1] = https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26028
[2] = https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:SDrewthbot/trim_trailing_LF
Regards, Andrew
en:user:Billinghurst
Hi!
I have searched in some wikisource help pages for convert wikisource books
to eBook files (e.g. epub), but I haven't found nothing. I would like know
if somebody talked before about this.
Regards,
Carles
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I assume Fae has mentioned to you that the National Archives of Scotland
> might be interested in doing something around soldiers' wills?
>
> As-opposed to a more formal "last will and testament", these documents
> are a final letter to loved once to be delivered if they were killed.
> Along with each, their CO would have returned personal effects which
> might include items like ticket stubs for a theatre show seen the night
> before they went to the front.
>
> How, and where in the family, this could work with Wikimedia projects is
> what I'm not entirely sure on.
Commons, and Wikisource, would be the place to start.
IMO, any text held by a national archive should be within the scope of
Wikisource. Most texts will fit within the current English Wikisource
policy, but it could be expanded a bit by relying on the selection
process of external organisations.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:WWI#Documentary_sources
> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 15:35 +0100, Chris Keating wrote:
>> I see from the 2012 activity plan that there's a budget for a
>> World
>> Wars project [1]. Is there a leader for this? An online
>> presence?
>>
>>
>> Hello! :-)
>>
>>
>> The short answer is Yes, sort of, me. And no, not yet. And I would
>> love to speak to you about it (and to anyone else interested in what
>> we can do with the World War I centenary).
>>
>>
>> The longer answer is;
>>
>>
>> There is a really big opportunity both for Wikimedia UK and indeed
>> the whole movement connected to the World War I centenary. For a
>> period of about 4 years there's going to be increased public interest
>> in this area. Around some key dates the number of people researching
>> World War I topics on Wikipedia (everyone from primary-school children
>> to journalists) will be massive. What's more, pretty much every museum
>> and archive in the country which has any relevant collections is going
>> to be doing *something* related to World War I in 2014.
>>
>>
>> Further - it's not just us - this is a massive global event; 2014 is a
>> major centenary for almost every European nation and lots of
>> non-European ones.
>>
>>
>> This is something I've long had in mind - a couple of years ago I
>> started the Great War Centennial project on-wiki, which was then
>> incorporated into the Military History Wikiproject. However, it didn't
>> get very far (particularly not compared to the Battleships
>> wikiproject).
>>
>>
>> Since I've been on the Board, I have been very gradually making
>> contacts both within Wikimedia (including the military history
>> wikiproject) and with potential partner institutions about what
>> Wikimedia UK could do in this regard. I know Milhist is up for doing
>> more outreach, indeed one of the Milhist coordinators is is UK-based
>> and has been contacting the Ministry of Defence about releasing more
>> of their material under the Open Government License, which is great.
>>
>>
>> The budget we've put in for 2012 could yet be spent in a number of
>> different ways. And I hope this won't just be a 2012 activity - I
>> would like to see us make this an ongoing area of activity, certainly
>> to 2014, quite possibly beyond.
>>
>>
>> I am keen to move this further, though I don't have much time spare
>> until the New Year as I'm mainly occupied on the Fundraiser. So at the
>> moment I'm mainly collating interested parties, with a view to getting
>> a core group of Wikimedians together who want to shape what we do with
>> this, and a core group of partner institutions, and putting the two
>> groups together in a room in January or February and seeing what they
>> come up with in terms of inspiration for the period 2012-2014. Some
>> (but not all) of the decisions about how the WW1/WW2 allocation in
>> 2012 budget is spent will already have been taken by then, but not all
>> of them, and as I say I think the 2012 budget figure is a beginning
>> not an end.
>>
>>
>> If anyone's interested in this, please wave :-)
>>
>>
>> I can be
>> persuaded to invest in and read some books, although if the
>> books were
>> to come out of the budget and then be placed in Wikimedia UKs
>> hands
>> afterwards that would be preferable.
>>
>>
>>
>> We can already handle support investment in books, via the Microgrant
>> scheme: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Microgrants
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
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From: Mark A. Hershberger <mhershberger(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wikibooks and Wikisource triage report
To: Wikitech List <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikitext-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
This past Wednesday, I held a triage focused on issues from the
Wikibooks an Wikisource projects
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/18861 - Search should give transcluded
text for the page
First, a confession. I'm not an experienced Wikipedian. So when I
saw this bug, I didn't understand the benefit. "Wouldn't you
just need to add namespaces to the search index?" I thought.
Luckily, Roan was in this triage and offered a simple use case:
Wiktionary does crazy things like
{{buildATableOfAllInflections|word|inflectioncase}} — which will
produce a table of all inflections of "word", based on which case
applies to it. So then if you search for an inflection of "word",
say "words", you won't find it.
With the help of this explanation, I was able to understand the
usefulness and what was needed. MWSearch needs to index *expanded*
Wikitext rather than just raw Wikitext.
This would probably also fix that annoying bug where incategory:foo
queries don't work properly with categories from templates
This has been proposed as a Summer of Code idea for 2012.
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28277 - Error when importing pages from
English Wikipedia to Portuguese Wikibooks
This strange bug caused problems on the Portuguese Wikibooks project,
and we were able to reproduce it during triage. I put Helder.wiki's
steps for reproducing this on the bug and hope to find a developer to
work on it soon.
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/189 - please find a solution for a
music module
After some discussion, I decided to close this bug (which has gotten
over 115 comments) and focus any new effort on action items derived
from it like "Make [[mw:Extension:LilyPond]] safe against DoS attacks"
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/29630).
Sumana is already using this issue as a possible area for volunteers
to work on.
Side note: prior to this triage, the LilyPond Extension existed only
on a MediaWiki page. After the triage, I committed the LilyPond code
to SVN and, almost immediately, it began getting valuable reviews and
updates. http://hexm.de/80
I think this really shows the value of our code review process —
especially as we've improved it over the past year or so.
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/27256 - Correcting content page count at
en.wikibooks and pt.wikibooks
It looks like we spent a bit of time discussing this bug without any
of us being aware of 1.18's new $wgArticleCountMethod. I've updated
the bug with the necessary information.
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/22911 - Install
extension:SubpageSortkey on wikibooks
Bawolff has created an extension to solve Helder.wiki's original
request ("Default 'sort key' for namespaces should be more namespaces
with subpages should be customisable"). At this point it simply needs
to be reviewed and deployed.
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/15071 - Wikibooks/Wikisource needs
means to associate separate pages with books.
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/2308 - ability to watch "bundles" of
sub-pages
These two bugs and Raylton's Extension:BookManager revolved around
these projects' desire to treat books as entities that can be
manipulated in the same way as wiki pages. They'd like the ability to
watch, delete, or move books as well as a have pages like
Special:RandomBook.
Adding some of these features (watching, for example) to all pages in
a category, might help admins in other projects besides these.
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/30666 - Show subpages on page deletion
As Bawolff said, this looks like a sane feature request in general, not
just for wikibooks. Adrignola gave a couple of gadgets that enable
subpage deletion, but the gadgets didn't provide a clean way to undelete
sub pages en-masse.
This sparked a discussion on some other enhancements that would be
good to have. For example the ability to watch all articles in a
category (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/1710)
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/26881 - noinclude tag breaks Proofread
under Internet Explorer
This was a on the wishlist for wikibooks and included a patch. I
committed it (http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/98422).
** https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/12130 - Edit form eats heading CRs
(leading blank newlines/whitespace) on save/preview
This bug keeps popping up and, while there are work-arounds, the
behavior is non-intuitive. Mediawiki erases the first (and only the
first) blank like each time you click submit or preview. After
everyone in the triage meeting confirmed this, I showed the problem to
Krinkle who agreed that this should be fixed and left a comment with
an idea of how to fix it.
Next Triage: October 5th -- focus on Fund-raising issues http://hexm.de/81
Bug Triage calendar: http://hexm.de/TriageCal
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Very nice essay emijrp. I think this essay belongs on meta, as it
pertains to the archival and curation of primary sources (Commons,
Wikisource) rather than crowd sourced creation of secondary and
tertiary sources (Wikipedia and Wikibooks).
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:43 AM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> I have written an essay (my first one)[1] about the idea "There is a
> deadline". It is opposite to the old essay (from 2006) which holds that
> there is no deadline.
>
> I hope my redaction is good enough to explain my opinion about this topic.
> Please, if you find errors, fix them, I'm not very fluent in English.
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> emijrp
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline
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Prezi.com is a web application for making presentations,
almost a Powerpoint replacement. It works by zooming in
and out, using scale as a hierarchy. It's free for limited
use, and costs a subscription for more advanced features.
They have been around since April 2009 or 2.5 years.
I don't know exactly which technologies they use, or if
any of this is patented. But I think this is a novelty in
web user interfaces, similar to the introduction of
Google Maps in February 2005.
I think that something similar to Prezi could be used for
presenting digitized books, but I'm not sure exactly how.
Have you seen any such examples? Please, let me know.
As a first example, I took some scanned book pages and
made this little demonstration in Swedish, which you
can step through just to get the feeling,
http://prezi.com/2iljsxayfrl-/ekbohrn/
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very sad news. rip.
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From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Very sad news
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Michael S. Hart has died http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart