User:Sanbeg/Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2017-12

= Announcements =

2017 Community Wishlist Survey
Nov 6: The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey started today, and already Wikisource has two proposals! But we need more... so come on over to Meta and tell the world what cool new tool or bugfix we need. Anyone can propose anything, anytime till the 19th of November, and then voting on the proposals will begin on the 27th. Sam Wilson 23:30, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Nov 27: Voting has now started; you've got two weeks to vote. Some Wikisource-related proposals are: Sam Wilson 00:58, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/Create new Han Characters with IDS extension for WikiSource
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/Page status color code not always showing
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/Improve export of electronic books
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/Improve workflow for uploading books to Wikisource
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/Extend pag and num accessibility
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/Offer PDF export of original pagination of entire books
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/ProofreadPage extension in alternate namespaces
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/Specify transcription completion with more granularity
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikisource/XTools Edit Counter for Wikisource
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wiktionary/Wikisource dictionaries for Wiktionary
 * 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikidata/Recognize .djvu file as wikisource index file

Timeless skin deployed
For the community to note that the skin "timeless" is now available for review of functionality via your preferences—we asked for this to be made available. At this point of time, people can give their error reports via or in this section on this page if the community prefers. — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:19, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

= Proposals =

Proposal to standardize the table style template shorthand codes.
The shorthand codes of table style follow no logical sequence for easy recognition, and/or memorization. In addition, there are codes in the parsing table which are not listed and/or ever used.

I prepared a new shorthand table HERE to streamline the codes. The new parsing template HERE retains the old codes as well, not to damage the existing tables.

In the long term, the intention is to replace the old codes, replace rarely used codes with the standard CSS declarations, and eliminate unused codes.

Some stats: There are nearly (~24,000 pages linked to this template out of which, ~16,000 are from

Your input is most appreciated  — Ineuw talk 04:32, 15 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I prefer the current abbreviations and options. I can remember "lg" for large much more easily than "fs" followed by a number I can't remember. Also 92% is equivalent to "fine", so I'm not sure why you'd want to eliminate it, as it's one of the standard font reduction sizes. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:48, 15 November 2017 (UTC)


 * The long term intent should be to eliminate the system altogether. It is utterly opaque even to experienced non-initiates, and poses an impossible barrier to entry to new contributors. All this to save a few keystrokes. Hesperian 06:23, 15 November 2017 (UTC)


 * While this is a good point, I find the drudgery of manually formatting tables to be a much larger barrier. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:09, 15 November 2017 (UTC)


 * First, you can keep using the same codes. Second you fail to realize that there is no size change over a range of percentages as demonstrated in these images File:1536x864res.jpg and File: 1664x936res.jpg. using a code like "fs90" for "font-size of 90%" makes a lot more sense than "lg", "xs" "fine" etc. My general view is that there is very little esthetics in our text where proportional size would look better and the old coding makes it impossible to know. as for eliminating it, I am completely against it. Live and learn.  — Ineuw talk 06:51, 15 November 2017 (UTC)


 * No, I can't keep using the same codes if we follow your proposal to change and delete current codes. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:22, 15 November 2017 (UTC)


 * conditionally: if it's backwards-compatible, i.e. no "replacement" or "elimination". —Beleg Tâl (talk) 13:09, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

After a thorough rethink (and a good night's sleep), I understand your objections, and only add my codes to the structure and if it is accepted, I need the community's approval to replace the parsing template with this clean and ordered version.

As for Hesperian's suggestion of expanding the codes with their proper CSS declarations I have no objection, as long as the template remains for proofreading. — Ineuw talk 20:46, 15 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Its a shame there isn't a way to seperate the formating "data" from the template structure ... ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 18:25, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * It should be more consistent in the notation, IMO.— Mpaa (talk) 10:18, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

-->|lh10|lh1=line-height:100% => lh100 -->|lh11=line-height:110%    => lh110 -->|lh12=line-height:120%    => lh120 -->|lh13=line-height:130%    => lh130 -->|lh15=line-height:150%    => lh140 -->|lh2|lh20=line-height:200% => lh200 -->|pt15=padding-top:1.5em   => pt1.5 -->|p15i1|it1p.5=padding-left:1.5em; text-indent:-1.0em => p1.5i2 -->|p25i2|itp.5=padding-left:2.5em; text-indent:-2.0em  => p2.5i2

= Bot approval requests =

SpBot
I note that User:SpBot is running without discussion or community approval, though the edits seem useful (archiving discussions) and probably non-controversial. However, I do not know how the bot determines when a discussion thread is ready to be archived or what time frame is allowed for continued discussion, so those could be issues. --EncycloPetey (talk) 21:01, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok, let's discuss again. BTW, my bot has a bot flag. --Euku (talk) 21:40, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, looks like it was simply never added to the official list when it was approved. I've now done that. Thanks for your speedy response! --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:04, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 22:49, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

=Repairs (and moves)=

Index:Angelo's Pic Nic.djvu
Can someone plese re-align the OCR text with the page scans? (and remove some duplicate pages at the start)?

I've been trying to pagelist this and it's not helped by the mis-aligned text layer. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:47, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The work needs to be checked at archive.org, and may need to be re-derived there, especially as some of the OCR is rubbish. It is a mess, and not one with which that I believe someone should manually try to fiddle if it can be avoided. Should I ask why you are intervening with someone else's index pages? They uploaded the work, they don't need you intervening on their setup. — billinghurst  sDrewth  00:52, 29 November 2017 (UTC)


 * It was my understanding that Wikisource was a joint effort, and in trying to reduce the backlog of "File to check" entries, I was checking the pagelist on this work as I've done with countless others, without concern being raised. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:24, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:08, 29 November 2017 (UTC)


 * It seems that the text layer is now correctly aligned see Page:Angelo's Pic Nic.djvu/161, but that  previously contributed pages need moving to reflect the correct layout.  As that needs "somebody else" with admins powers to do block moves, I've reverted any attempts to add a page list, and will leave it for someone amply more competent in such matters such as yourself to resolve it with the uploader. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:24, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay it seems my cache is doing something weird. I'll let the uploader do the pagelist ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:30, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

= Other discussions =

Second Edition of Wikisource Conference during 2018 at Strasbourg
Saluton ĉiuj,


 * Note: This message is mostly a duplicate of the the wikisource-l announce made on mailing list.

At Strasbourg, we want to organize a second edition of the Wikisource Conference during 2018. Things are falling into place over here, but before we go further, we need to know what kind of event format the community want:


 * how many attendees,
 * coming from where,
 * only wikisourcerers/wikimedians, or also open to a wider public like good potential institutional partners,
 * for how long,
 * in how many rooms with which capacity

We might go with the same format as Vienna, or we might go for something a bit different. Your feedback will be predominant in this decision.

In term of calendar, at first November have been proposed. That would let almost a full year to prepare the event, which might not be too much. We might also couple the event with "bilbiothèque idéale" (ideal library) an annual event which occurs usually in September. We do have institutional internal contact to give us more information about such a possibility, but it also need to be fine for wikisourcerers.

Be bold about gathering feedback from your local community, and let me know if there are other canals/tools you would like to see used for further organization, ie. Meta.

Ĝis baldaŭ, Psychoslave (talk) 10:58, 14 November 2017 (UTC)


 * i would suggest an event page either here or on meta, for collaboration. and a grant page to garner funding support. Wikisource Community User Group/November 2017 Hangout Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 00:06, 24 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes, I agree, a page on Meta sounds like a good idea. And talking of hangouts, shall we organise one for December? We could talk more about the conference ideas. Sam Wilson 03:03, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * May it be politically astute to have it at mulWS? Some of us may have to make a decision on whether to try to get to that or to Wikimania, with that decision-making dependent on the scholarship availability. — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:33, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * And once that decision is made, we can get some banners requested through the WSes as a minimum. — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:34, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Cite link label group
could an admin please create the following reference label pages? it is for a work with roman and numeric footnotes - here are the wikipedia examples : ; ;  see also w:Help:Cite_link_labels thanks. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 02:37, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * This has been discussed previously with the consensus to be that we do not replicate the style of the individual work, and to instead continue with our default/house style. — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:26, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
 * fine by me. perhaps you would care to explain to me the house style for this page Page:The_Works_of_Lord_Byron_(ed._Coleridge,_Prothero)_-_Volume_3.djvu/126 i don’t get it. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 01:05, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Have you looked at Help:Footnotes and endnotes? --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:22, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * yes, are you saying house style is to eschew roman numeral notes? interesting choice. could not find any discussion. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 01:52, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Where did you look for discussion? I found more than a dozen threads on this issue, some of them quite involved, by doing a quick search. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:11, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Scriptorium/Archives/2017-02 ?? i do not really follow what you are saying. since your "house style" does not replicate the work, i will stop on a work with roman numeral footnotes. but if you have a solution for the referenced page, i would like to see it. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 02:49, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what you mean when you say that house style does not replicate the work. Do you mean that it gives the footnotes a different symbol than the one in the work? That's quite common here at Wikisource, since individual pages in a work often use asterisks, daggers, or other symbols for marking footnotes. We do not try to replicate that. Most works will start at [1] for their first footnote on every single page, but in our final transcluded copy of the work, our numbering will run consecutively throughout all the pages transcluded to the same location. So again, that is a feature that we do not replicate. Nor do we replicate line breaks on pages, nor place footnotes on every page in the final work but collect them together, nor do we follow double spacing after periods, nor do we indent paragraphs, nor do we worry about specific fonts, nor do we do a great many things when we create a Wikisource copy. So I'm not sure why this particular issue is such a concern to you to slavishly replicate, when there are dozens (hundreds?) of ways in which a Wikisource copy "does not replicate the work". --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:32, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
 * roman numbers are symbols as arabic numbers are symbols. we have a work here with parallel roman and arabic footnotes through seven volumes. but i see you are adamant. it is a level of admin opposition to technical functionality that i am accustomed to seeing on other projects. sad to see it here. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 14:46, 20 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm (slowly) dealing with a work with two sets of footnotes on each page. A random page from the work is: Page:Romeo and Juliet (Dowden).djvu/113. Take a look and see if that will help. The mainspace page that contains this one is: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Dowden)/Act 2/Scene 4. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:41, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filter now has a function called . You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems
 * Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.

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New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-11
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * The Global collaboration report for October is now available.
 * All wikis now have the Filters for edit review as the default system on Recent Changes page.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Most recent changes
 * Comments_font_awesome.svg Filters for Watchlists are still on Beta. Please try them and give feedback before we release it for all users!
 * Shortcuts to filter Namespaces and Tags are now more visible.
 * Discovery of the search bar has been improved.
 * If the Recent Changes page or the Watchlist fails to load or is time-outed, a message is now displayed.
 * The bookmark icon for creating a "Saved filter" is now grayed when it is not possible to save. Before it was not visible. Bookmarking is unavailable when, for example, the current filter set is already saved.

Future changes
 * Live updates on Recent changes will be moved out of beta and into the standard feature set by the end of the year.
 * Extension:Translate filters for RecentChanges are going to be integrated to the new filters.
 * Automatic edit summaries will be filtered as tags.

Content translation [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes
 * List items (suggested items and in-progress/published translations) layout restyled to prevent overflows on small screen sizes.
 * Search results for new translation dialog are now embedded, instead of being displayed in floating menu. Search results remain displayed when tabbed out and can be closed using ESC key.
 * Missing pages are no longer shown when there is no match for search query. Message informing that there are no results is displayed instead.
 * Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language.
 * Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis.
 * Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. Months that went without translation are now displayed in chart as well.
 * A loading indicator is shown while suggestions are loading.
 * Button to discard dialog is now shown through the whole process of selecting article to translate.

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes
 * Edit-user-talk notifications are now expandable.

Structured Discussions [More information • Help pages]

Future changes
 * Some work is ongoing to store Structured Discussions contents from HTML to wikitext. That change will allow some specific templates and magic words to work properly on Structured Discussions.
 * Some tests are conducted in order to prepare the rewriting of Structured Discussions' interface. That rewriting will have no visible impact on users but it will ease future changes.

Other projects
 * Compact Language Links has been deployed on German Wikipedia.

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Timeless skin — noted issues
(see announcement section for scope of notes here)
 * Index: namespace— drop down list field for "type" is too wide for central pane
 * both right and left menus, the opposite of "minerva", loads fast - top "your account" drop down box - hides some left menu, would rather move it all there. "more" menu on right is a waste of real estate. waste of space on top toolbar for a large search box - and what a waste of drama on phabricator - no wonder we are stuck with the old skins. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 00:50, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * apparently works better on wikipedia, with four dropdown menus: navigation; wiki tools; page tools; languages. with a fifth user menu with search box. maybe they should check out why it does not work the same for wikisource? <font face="Vijaya">Slowking4 ‽ <span lang="de-Latf" style="font-family:UnifrakturMaguntia, UnifrakturCook, Unifraktur, serif">SvG's revenge 00:50, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * for me the overarching font-size is too big which is causing wrapping in prev/next, and in pop-up forms. When I can work out which style will decrease the font for the whole page, and forms, then I will try again. — billinghurst  sDrewth  21:38, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48
<section begin="technews-2017-W48"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later.
 * You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB.
 * You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Index:A woman of the century.djvu is a duplicate of Index:Woman of the Century.djvu
I just saw that Index:A woman of the century.djvu is a duplicate of Index:Woman of the Century.djvu. It already was mentioned in a topic at the beginning of the year (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2017-01#A_Woman_of_the_Century), but it seems that now the work has been entirely proofread, so the redundant one can be safely deleted.

Koxinga (talk) 21:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * is this safe to now delete? — billinghurst  sDrewth  22:15, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * yes, thank-you. the former was uploaded, before checking for the latter. and latter is now ready for validation. <font face="Vijaya">Slowking4 ‽ <span lang="de-Latf" style="font-family:UnifrakturMaguntia, UnifrakturCook, Unifraktur, serif">SvG's revenge 23:27, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ thx — billinghurst  sDrewth  00:27, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

A minor question about categorization
Would Category:Natural resource management be considered as a sub category of Category:Nature? — Ineuw talk 20:57, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure, I think that's an ok subcategory. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 01:26, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Template efn to manage different group of footnotes with predefined markers
Is there any reason why the template efn should not be available and working properly in Wikisource as it is in Wikipedia? Used in Wikisource it produces numeric (instead of letter) markers preceded by the prefix "lower-alpha", as if the template was partially recognized but not implemented… — Malachia (talk) 17:01, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Because house style is not to do that. We've had this discussion many, many times. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:26, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
 * local information at Help:Footnotes and endnotes. In short, as we are not lloking to replicate the style of the work, and it can fail miserably once we change from page footnotes, to chapter endnotes; hence our decision on how and why we stick with standard numerical refs. Happy to explain why, though as EP says, we don't feel like recycling the debate, noting it is in the archives of this page. — billinghurst  sDrewth  12:46, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49
<section begin="technews-2017-W49"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Recent changes
 * It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files.
 * You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it.
 * There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
 * Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
 * The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development.

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Local notes

 * Special:LintErrors to see where we are situated. It looks to be a long way off for us. From my looking it seems that we have an abundance of trying to use  sizing templates over one or more  . That means either replicating the template formatting for each paragraph, or converting to the block equivalent.  — billinghurst  sDrewth  12:41, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Magazine article in scope?
There's an article in  by, a notable (in Wikipedia terms) historian. The article, which talks about how libraries will have to evolve in the internet age, was released by her into the public domain (at the bottom). I personally found this to be an important and insightful article about the world's cultural knowledge and it even mentions Wikipedia's place in this, so I'd like to republish it here since the license allows. However, I'm not sure if it's in scope. We do have magazine articles, and the publishing magazine and author are both notable, but it's a non-fictional opinion piece mainly rather than scholarly, artistic, or analytical. Opencooper (talk) 11:02, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * the guide is WS:WWI and primarily we are wishing for peer-reviewed articles, where that is either academic or professional. I would think that the New Republic would qualify for the publishing medium so it will be fine. While we would normally look to set the article within the context of its publishing medium, that it is unlikely from that source, so it would just be a straight root article, appropriately sourced. — billinghurst  sDrewth  12:37, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Alright, that makes sense considering the article would have went through editorial. Thanks for the link and the guidance. :). Opencooper (talk) 12:44, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Update: turns out, I was beaten to it. Sorry, I should have checked if it was uploaded already, but this does help me know what might be acceptable in the future. Opencooper (talk) 12:48, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * needs a scan on commons, and pages transcluded. <font face="Vijaya">Slowking4 ‽ <span lang="de-Latf" style="font-family:UnifrakturMaguntia, UnifrakturCook, Unifraktur, serif">SvG's revenge 15:28, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It seems this was published digitally only. A search of the magazine's archives didn't turn up this article. Opencooper (talk) 16:12, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Bot fixing broken transclusions (LST-guard)
Hi community. I have been working for a while on a bot that deals with broken transclusions (under guidance of user:Xelgen). The issue that we try to address are the instances when a user changes section labels in a page A and forgets to update a page B where these sections are transcluded. This doesn't happen a lot, but when it does, it might go unnoticed for quite a long time. Transcluding pages don't show any error or warning message and might even show content (which is potentially incomplete or misplaced).

A fresh example of such a case is here. The transclusion was caught and corrected by the bot here.

You can find a detailed description of how the bot works on github and on user:VacioBot where there is also an stop button that safely and immediately stops the bot from editing.

The reason I write here is to ask if the community feels save to run the bot for a longer period of time non-stop. Until now I tested the bot a few times, about 1-2 days each time. There are still a few things that I am still working on, but I think the bot is ready for a longer run. I would prefer to continue to without a bot flag so its edit are visible to normal users (there aren't going to be more than a few edits daily anyway).

I would be happy to hear your suggestions and opinion. Best --Vacio (talk) 14:01, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * or you could talk to a certain editor about his section naming practices. <font face="Vijaya">Slowking4 ‽ <span lang="de-Latf" style="font-family:UnifrakturMaguntia, UnifrakturCook, Unifraktur, serif">SvG's revenge 15:20, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * If you would like to request permission for a bot, there is a special section for Bot Approval Requests at the top of this page. You would start a section there, and provide the necessary information for the Community to voice approval. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:30, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Blocking tools consultation
Hello all,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team invites all Wikimedians to discuss new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools in December 2017 for development work in early 2018.

How can you help?
 * 1) Share your ideas on the discussion page or send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team.
 * 2) Spread the word that the consultation is happening; this is an important discussion for making decisions about improving the blocking tools.
 * 3) Help with translation.
 * 4) If you know of previous discussions about blocking tools that happened on your wiki, share the links.

We are looking forward to learning your ideas.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 23:23, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Caltech "Engineering and Science" issues
Caltech has made complete issues of Engineering and Science available on its website. http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/view/subjects/journal=5Fissue.html There are 474 issues (at time of writing) dating from 1937 to 2017. These include a number of articles, including 's There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom. All of these have the usage policy ""You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format.""

Is this usage policy compatible with Wikisource? -Einstein95 (talk) 21:44, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Additionally, on Help:Copyright tags, it mentions "Please note that non-commercial, fair use, and most copyright licenses are not acceptable; see the copyright policy.", yet Copyright policy doesn't mention the text "non-commercial". -Einstein95 (talk) 21:57, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It says "Free content is content which can be freely viewed, used, distributed, modified, and exploited by anyone, in any form, and for any purpose (including commercial exploitation) without exception and without limitation (except as explicitly allowed below)."--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:17, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Right, I guess I shouldn't rely in Ctrl+F. -Einstein95 (talk) 23:58, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


 * No; non-commercial rights are in general not acceptable on Wikimedia. Looking at Engineering and Science, Volume 1:3, December 1937 (which seems to be a different title), there doesn't seem to be a copyright notice. A sample 1946 issue has an attempt at a copyright notice, though it looks deficient. By 1957, they finally figured out the proper form of a copyright notice. Nonetheless, they don't seem to have renewed any of them, so with the possible exception of reprinted material, all of them up to 1963 are probably out of copyright in the US. After that, however, they'd be in copyright.--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:16, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah, brilliant. Guess this will go into the "Projects to start" pile. -Einstein95 (talk) 23:58, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


 * i would upload to internet archive, and say "PD-US not renewed" for before 63 issues. (they do not appear yet ) then upload to commons, with a category similar to Modern Electrics magazine  using IAuploader. cheers. <font face="Vijaya">Slowking4 ‽ <span lang="de-Latf" style="font-family:UnifrakturMaguntia, UnifrakturCook, Unifraktur, serif">SvG's revenge 00:32, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Page:Historyofpersiaf00watsrich.djvu/139
I'm not going to ask how this got moved around. Can an admin figure out what the **** went wrong, deleting,purging so that this page IS linked properly again before there's anymore junk created? Thanks. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:30, 10 December 2017 (UTC)


 * This section was archived on a request by: ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 23:04, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-50
<section begin="technews-2017-W50"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:  instead of  . This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work.
 * A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist.
 * If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article.
 * Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "" link is now more prominent.
 * Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W50"/> 17:57, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Copyright laws regarding The Constitution of Bangladesh.
Please excuse me, as I'm new to Wikisource. I was looking up the constitution of various countries on Wikisource and I noticed that there was no entry about the constitution of Bangladesh. I tried searching around and on | This website, which happens to be written in Bengali (I'm from Bangladesh), I found out that government works have 60 years of copyright since their first publication. But my main problem is that on | here, it states this certain line: [The reproduction or publication of certain Government works (unless prohibited; sub-s. 17)]. Now, I don't know if the publication of the Constitution Of Bangladesh's allowed or not. As far as I know, It was first ratified in 4 November, 1972 and became effective on 12 December of that same year. It has been about 44 years since first publication. My main question is, Is the publication of the Constitution of Bangladesh allowed? (Also, do excuse my English.)   DarkSpartan (talk) 15:51, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It is allowed under c:Template:EdictGov-Bangladesh. Hrishikes (talk) 17:50, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note that translations can have their own problems; we'd need either a clearly free translation or a translation by us. Google Translate or other machine translation can make a start.--Prosfilaes (talk) 23:18, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


 * see translations for information about original translations. If there is a scan uploaded in Bangli for the bnWS transcription. The same scan can have an enWS index: page here and corresponding enWS Page: which can be utilised for the image/translation. [Ask me to expand on anything, this is just a concise answer.] — billinghurst  sDrewth  01:44, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
 * For versions at bnWS: calligraphic: https://bn.wikisource.org/s/bsgd, printed: https://bn.wikisource.org/s/1jn. Hrishikes (talk) 03:17, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Is there any interest in creating a WikiProject Numismatics here?
Hello 👋🏻 everyone,

Would there be support to start a WikiProject Numismatics here on Wikisource? I personally am looking online for old books 📚 on numismatic subjects online and though I currently only have a single one in mind (Annam and its minor currency by Eduardo Toda y Güell), I know that there are plenty of public domain numismatic works to be found. I’m not sure how many people here are interested in joining a WikiProject Numismatics as I’ve already created a WikiProject Numismatics on the Dutch Wikipedia and I am currently still the only member so I don't want to repeat that mistake by launching that project directly after I finish importing Annam and its minor currency by Eduardo Toda y Güell and then be disappointed 😞 when no new members appear. So in order to “test the waters” so to say I wonder if anyone here is interested in joining a WikiProject Numismatics. If there’s plenty of support (at least three potential members) I will create a sub-page in my user-space 🚀 to draft a WikiProject Numismatics.

I think that as a WikiProject it would best concern itself with making collaborative projects where some users make sources available, others work with the syntax and style, while others format and categorise. Maybe we could have a team that contacts Numismatic institutions and musea off-wiki (something I already do for Wikimedia Commons with mixed success), so if there's any interest feel free to say so.

Sent from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. -- <font style="color:#FFFF00;background:red;"> DonTrung (徵國單)  (討論 🤙🏻) (方孔錢 ☯)  08:37, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-51
<section begin="technews-2017-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems
 * When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited.
 * Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
 * The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2017-W51"/> 15:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Global Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-12
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?
 * The last Global collaboration details report is now available (in English).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]


 * Octicons-star.svg The filters are now deployed as a default feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
 * The filters are still available as a Beta feature on all wikis on Watchlists. Please try them!
 * LiveUpdates have been deployed as a default feature for all wikis.
 * On wikis using Extension:Translate, translated messages can now be filtered. System messages can be filtered as well, on all wikis.
 * "" link is now more prominent, to invite users to use that native feature to update the list of results.
 * Pagination and time period selectors are now combined and located on the right on left-to-right wikis.
 * When a user wanted to click outside of the filter menu to close it, it was possible to click on "revert" link by accident. It is not possible anymore.
 * It is now possible to filter the following events using the Tags menu: Making a page a redirect, Changing redirect target, Changing an existing redirect into a non-redirect, Blanking of the page, Removing more than 90% of a page content, Rolling back an edit.
 * Some design improvements have been done to Related Changes page to integrate the new filters.
 * "Save current filter settings" menu and legend overlapped the results. This is now fixed.
 * Some small design improvements have been done.

Content translation [More information • Help pages]


 * Now Content Translation prevents source and target language to be set to same language.
 * The dialog for selecting article to translate is standardized. It introduces a new component that is used for the selected page on both the "New translation" dialog and the "Suggested pages" list.
 * More space is given to the language filter, to increase responsiveness and show more language names without truncation.
 * While searching for a new page to translate, duplicates are not shown anymore for user search input.
 * Various PHP warnings and JavaScript errors have been fixed.

Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]


 * It is now possible to use Special:Nuke on hidden Structured discussion topics.
 * The Reply button is not active anymore until something is typed.

Miscellaneous
 * For wikis that use ORES, preferences for ORES have been rationalized in Special:Preferences, on Recent Changes tab and Watchlist tab.
 * ORES will be deployed on Simple English Wikipedia. That wiki will be able to use the Prediction filters.

Collaboration team's newsletter prepared by the Global Collaboration team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 14:31, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Make author optional in header template
I would like to propose making the  parameter to the header template optional, and when it's not given use the author-list template instead. This pulls authorship information from Wikidata and constructs the correct links. At the moment it's working for normal authors and organisational ones (i.e. portals). It also wraps the links in 'structured HTML' which will help search engines indexing these works.

For example, Holy, Holy, Lord would have an author list of "", and Thompson v. Utah one of "" (without the quotation marks in both cases).

This template looks at the work's Wikidata item for an author, and if it can't find one it looks at the item that the work is an edition of (i.e. it traverses the P629 property).

Note that I'm not at all talking about ; that would continue as-is. This is just about the behaviour when the  parameter is left out or is blank.

I don't propose that this is going to be happening very soon, because I'm quite sure that there are things that I don't know about yet. I'll make test cases (at Module:Edition/testcases) for everything, to make future maintenance easier. I'm raising this now firstly to see if anyone thinks it's a good idea, and secondly to garner more examples of works with non-standard authors (i.e. we have lots of works with single, human, authors who have names; that's the simple case; I reckon there're other cases!).

Whadyareckon? —Sam Wilson 06:27, 6 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Can you please describe what happens when the author field is empty and one of "override_author", "contributor", "override_contributor" is utilised? One of the things that I am uncertain about is that we have to create the work first prior to being able to use wikidata, and there can be that delay, and no certainty that it will be completed. So how would we manage the cases where wikidata does not exist, and presumably we would know it locally though may not be entered. Also how would this work for subpages, especially where these subpages will not be in wikidata, eg. chapters. And being explicit to those in the community who may not know that the author parameter is currently mandated to exist in the template (though can be left empty), and where it is removed that the template generates an error noting that template is incomplete. — billinghurst  sDrewth  13:47, 18 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes, I should have written it better! This isn't proposing that we remove any of those parameters, just leave them empty and when all of the author-sort-of fields are empty it'll attempt to produce a Wikidata-backed list. It's certainly impossible to programatically account for every variation we've got in use here, but I think it shouldn't be toooo hard to handle the common ones where there's some number of 'normal' authors, who may or may not have their own author pages yet.
 * I've updated it to handle subpages. Do you know of any examples where there are works with subpages that do have their own Wikidata items? Or perhaps where intermediate subpages do (e.g. multiple volumes, each with a different author)?
 * And for the situation in which a page is created here but the Wikidata item doesn't yet exist: that'd just be as the status quo is, and nothing would be done.
 * Sam Wilson 07:37, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Re subpage works. Many of our encyclopaedic works, especially EB1911 and EB9, though those works are still problematic under old templates (and user resistance slows me taking those up. Soooo, maybe try DMM though I am uncertain how any have WD items ? We have some series of lectures that could and should have items, but I cannot say that they do. Re solely created here, the issue is if they leave the fields empty in expectation of doing something at WD, then don't we just have an empty work and maybe without means of identification, suche will require tracking and an early intervention strategy. My issue with regard to early intervention is that we need a more enthused community that is comfortable with interventionist approach. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:46, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Re DMM. I've done nothing about WD linking, mainly because it holds no interest to me whatever. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 17:58, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * has done a fair bit of work through American Medical Biographies and I know that includes Wikidata for both biographical entries and author pages, so that would be good one, especially if we want to do some removal of data to test. Hazmat2 an excellently skilled user here and there, so can also give good feedback on shortcutting and minimising unnecessary work. — billinghurst  sDrewth  12:35, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it's been a long day so I apologize if I go off topic a little here. I think that the way as described above would work. I do think every subpage in an encyclopedia/dictionary should have its own WD item. Discrete data is important for organization and searching. This would also make what you are describing particularly "easy" to parse data, but I remain cautious. There are many variables to account for. For instance, I use Contributor rather than author for the entries. This is not necessarily correct or incorrect, but it makes more sense to me. Would you therefore overlook the item and follow the published in or edition of route, which may or may not exist? What if you get to the original item and there's only an editor and no author? Also, I'm fairly confident that many users will never touch WD or create items, and I think that's okay. WP users usually don't create items for articles. It's done automatically and then information is parsed out and put into discrete statements by other users and bots. I digress, but my two main points are that non WD users shouldn't feel the difference and it will need some beta testing to get things right. Again, sorry for the broken thoughts. Haz talk 01:46, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Can a Hebrew speaker help finish this work?
Index:The Inscription on the Stele of Méša commonly called the Moabite Stone.djvu has three pages left, with Hebrew text. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 16:27, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Invisible button in Mobile mode.
Hi everyone. I recently noticed that when viewing a page either on a mobile device, or on my desktop, but with "mobile mode", there is an "invisible" button to the left of the normal "Download" button (that just prints the current page). When clicked, it uses WSExport to download an Epub copy of the whole page. That's great! But unfortunately not many people will click on that button, because currently it is blank. I have looked it up, look at the console in mobile mode and found that it is throwing an error, and the burron suppoused to look like this, but that image doesn't load. I think the issue arises from MediaWiki:Mobile.css. I think it is trying to load the image relative to the wikisource domain, and not directly from Commons. I think it may be lacking the protocol HTTP. I don't know if formerly worked, but maybe its like this for years. --Ninovolador (talk) 20:49, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

US Code
the Library of Congress has made more of the US Code pdf’s available, including from William S. Hein & Co, Inc.


 * https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/09/federal-statutes-a-beginners-guide/
 * https://www.loc.gov/collections/united-states-code/about-this-collection/
 * https://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/federal/uscode.php
 * https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/index.php

maybe we should take a look at refreshing these volumes. <font face="Vijaya">Slowking4 ‽ <span lang="de-Latf" style="font-family:UnifrakturMaguntia, UnifrakturCook, Unifraktur, serif">SvG's revenge 20:18, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * As it is our United States Code isn't tied to any fixed version and as such falls afoul of our inclusion criteria. A move to one would definitely be a big improvement over letting it stagnate or deleting it and cleaning up all the broken links and such. Quite an undertaking though. Prosody (talk) 19:16, 29 December 2017 (UTC)