[Wikisource-l] Features: Looks like things are improving, but there's still work to do

[Ryan Dabler]

On 6/15/07, Dovi Jacobs <dovijacobs at 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
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