This is information only, so please don't @me, there is no opinion nor
deeds by me
There was a post to English Wikisource Scriptorium that mentioned this
and a subsequent update
https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Scriptorium&diff…
The phabricator channel for Wikisources is worth watching
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1117/
The phabricator channel for ProofreadPage similarly
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/276/
Where there is any release coming that is impactful for Wikisources, one
is able to add the changes so they are marked to appear in Tech News eg.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/45
Similarly there is a mailing list for Tech Ambassadors where impactful
news can be sent
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
There is the message delivery list for Wikisource Scriptoriums
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikisource_…
anyone can create messages for use, though it needs "massmessage" right
at metawiki so we need someone from
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=ma…
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sy…
to send. There are numbers of members of WS communities who can do that,
and it is not an issue to get more members of community added.
-- billinghurst
------ Original Message ------
From: "Ruthven" <ruthven.wiki(a)gmail.com>
To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library"
<wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: 21/11/2021 6:46:32 PM
Subject: [Wikisource-l] Re: MediaWiki, Wikisource extensions, and new
implementations deployment
Hi Ankry,
on Italian Wikisource and on Neapolitan Wikisource there are
"Technical" village pumps. I suppose that would be the correct place to
post it if there is such a page in other languages.
It would be interesting to see what happens if a whole community writes
on Phabricator in order to delay a major deployment...
It happened in the past that we used global CSS to nullify
(display=None) a newly deployed feature that wasn't mature enough. Here
it would require more work I suppose, but I am sure that it can be
done.
What I am trying to say is that it's ridiculous to be passive when a
different community (the so called developers) modify a project without
any contact with the users.
Alex
Ruthven on Wikipedia
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 18:36, Ankry <ankry.wiki(a)onet.pl> wrote:
>Well, I was notified by techncally skilled users that the ned
>OpenSeadragon library is much heavier and more memory consuming than
>curreently used tools. So I can only hope that its load into memory
>can be disabled if one needs so.
>
>(may be critical while working on multiple pages at once)
>
>However, I doubt if any technical comments from communities expressed
>here will reach developers. And which wiki pages would be more
>appropriate for such comments.
>
>Ankry
>
>W dniu 20.11.2021 o 14:33, Ruthven pisze:
>>Hi all,
>> as usual, I get surprised every time there are major changes on the
>>MediaWiki software that are deployed without providing advance
>>warning to the community.
>>Every time it's the same story: something stops working on the
>>project. A gadget, a toolbar or some personalised JS.
>>
>>This time it was T288141 (see
>>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288141), that was deployed in all
>>the Wikisources (then rolled back because WikiMedia computer
>>scientists are the best) completely disrupting redesigning the image
>>side of the Page namespace. This affected the toolbars (see
>>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T296033) and several gadgets around
>>all the Wikisources.
>>
>>I am not saying that MediaWiki software shouldn't be improved: it's
>>normal that we're trying to get all we can from this outdated
>>software. I am just asking that major changes that affect all the
>>Wikisources should be announced in every single Village Pump waaay
>>before deploying them on the projects.
>>
>>Is it possible, as a Usergroup, to do a little pressure to be
>>considered as a community and not as guinea pigs on which to deploy
>>new, partially-tested features?
>>
>>Alex
>>Ruthven on Wikipedia
>>
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