On 6/15/07, Dovi Jacobs dovijacobs@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi. Back in April, Birgitte discussed some of her frustrations about the lack of implementation of software features at Wikisource. Since then, it looks like things have improved a great deal. Back then, Birgitte listed 5 important requests:
A. Labled Section Transclution (at least en and he) http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5881 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion (stable)
B. DjVu support for ProofreadPage (general) http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7957
C. DynamicPageList (at least en and de) http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8563 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList (stable)
D. WikiTeX (general for sheet music) http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792
E. Also Stable Versions, but that should be a priority outside of Wikisource. If Stable Version never happens, we might want revive Protect Section as substitute. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
Of these five features, (B) has been debugged and fully implemented on all Wikisource wikis thanks to the fantastic efforts of ThomasV. (E) has indeed become a priority outside Wikisource, and is slated to become the next major software change for Mediawiki on **all** projects (see the Extension Page, its talk, and the Mediawiki Roadmap: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap
In my opinion, once (E) is implemented, and especially in conjunction with Proofread Page (already active), the valid concerns about the reliability of texts in our wiki environment may be put to rest, and Protect Section will no longer be necessary.
That leaves us with just three left. Two of them, namely (A) Labeled Section Transclusion and (D) WikiTeX for sheet music, both of which seem to be very basic, flexible tools that should be enabled for all Wikisource languages.
ThomasV, might you be able to use your SVN access to help with some of these?
As for (C), DynamicPageList, can someone remind me when this was requested for Wikisource and why? (I'm not saying it's not useful, I just don't remember.)
Dovi
For a couple of these (namely Labeled Section Transclusion and WikiTex), I
think our best bet would be to keep kindly reminding a developer that these features are requested by a Wikimedia community--especially LST, as a potentially large project is waiting in limbo (and hopefully hasn't died during the wait) for this to be implemented before it goes any further.
I can't exactly remember why DPL was requested, but I think it was to be able to add more power to our categorization scheme, since en:ws has been trying to make as much use of categories as it can. I believe it was to help us be able to find authors who were "17th century English horror writers" by finding the which authors were in the "17th century writers," "English writers," and "horror writers" categories. A functionality like that would really make finding authors and works who fit specific criteria very helpful.
Zhaladshar