User talk:Mpaa/Archives/2022

The Music of the Spheres
I have not been pinging; there have been some weird experiences and it is my experience that just mentioning the User:Name linked does everything that ping or re promises to do. If I am wrong about that, this would be the time to correct me.

The reason I am here is that book I scanned. I have uploaded unrotated files and now I have a priority of -4. I wonder if they are counting uploads, starting with "2" being the first. If you think that I should get rid of the gutter, I can do that but it will take much longer than an hour.

Its a very cool book. I showed it to my Mom and she said that the title comes from a hymn, and the contents have all of the appearances of a science for non-science text. Great images for 1926, that was the era of large refractor lens 'scopes. The line drawings really need some vectoring.... The book itself was very very thick for just a few more than 300 numbered pages, it was printed on something like card stock. Okay, real life now and not interrupting much at this point.

If you did not get this before, Thank You!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 18:41, 1 January 2022 (UTC)


 * , here it is: File:The_Music_of_the_Spheres.djvu. I do not know what happened at IA, now I see images that 180°-rotated (i.e. upside down). I used the previous ones. Before you do extra work with the gutter, let's see how this one behaves. Cheers. Mpaa (talk) 20:00, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * FYI, searching around out of curiosity, I found a review from those times (also a pretty tough one): https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.64.1647.92. Mpaa (talk) 20:12, 1 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Wow! Justifiably scathing review!  I uploaded it and will link the reviewed parts to the book when I am done! File:Science-Vol. 64-issue 1647-pg 92 (1926).png I really dislike misinformation.


 * I think I am going to leave the unrotated files at IA and see what happens with the first uploads I did. The tar files I download for images are unrotated and uncropped, so, I suspect that "Community Texts" is on a different list.  It does concern me still that the file names had changed and then when I went back to them, they were unchanged.  It is on a list of what I will call "continuity errors" that I have been gathering lately.


 * It was a very quick turn around for that file. If there is anything I can do for you.  I am good for complicated layouts, the math module, and of course, image work.  Not as good with proofing though....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:15, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I did this Index:Science-Vol. 64-issue 1647-pg 92 (1926).png, not sure about name of the index though, I have seen there is Science Volumes but not up to 1926. Mpaa (talk) 22:04, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
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Thanks
Hi, Thanks for the reminder, it's much appreciated. I do very little admin work, if not less. &#32;— ineuw (talk) 19:01, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, welcome, no problem, I did not delete as I did not want to interfere if you were planing something else. Mpaa (talk) 10:02, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Several botched conversions in EB1911
Hi - I came across several bad conversions to format by MpaaBot e.g. ; ; ; ;. The bot has changed the command to   The result is none of the text that is supposed to be transcluded actually displays. I fixed ; and, maybe you could review the code used by the bot and see where it needs fixing. There may be others apart the ones I've mentioned that need fixing. — DivermanAU (talk) 05:39, 20 June 2022 (UTC)


 * @DivermanAU I think I have fixed them. Let me know if will find some other mistake. Mpaa (talk) 09:23, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

So sorry!
That block was totally unintentional. There was a bug in my Abuse Filter which was intended to trap vandals. It blocked me too, twice (even while I was trying to fix it). I disabled it. PseudoSkull (talk) 22:39, 6 August 2022 (UTC)


 * @PseudoSkull No problem, I saw you managed to lock yourself out :-) Mpaa (talk) 22:40, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Index:Letters, speeches and tracts on Irish affairs.djvu issue
Hi. When inserting the two pages of the contents, we have lost the next pages of xiii and the blank, and we have 1 and 2 now duplicated. :-( — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:13, 22 September 2022 (UTC)


 * @Billinghurst Are you sure it is not the cache? It seems ok to me. X, content I (xi), content VII (xii), xiii, blank, 1, 2 Mpaa (talk) 14:44, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks you are correct. I had purged, and had repeated, so some weird delay in caching. — billinghurst  sDrewth  23:36, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I've had the same issue when adding to or removing from DJVU files. When it happens, I tend to set about purging caches in all sorts of places on Commons and Wikisource...the file pages, the index pages, the work pages. Eventually it seems to get sorted, but I'm never sure if it's one of the purgest that did it, or just the passage of time. It would be good to get some clarity on just what it takes, and document that at Help:DjVu files. are you able to narrow it down at all? Did you do any manual purging, or just wait a while? -Pete (talk) 02:29, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The purge link at the top of the Index: pages pushes the text to reload from the djvu/pdf, and the images should follow shortly after. The caching of Commons images is a little black magic, and I should have forced/checked that by looking at the page image itself, as that does a different resolution, alternatively pushed a changed resolution from the Index pages. I just forgot to do it, as it is ages since I have faced the issue. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — billinghurst  sDrewth  12:36, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I have a work to tidy up with DJVU placeholders and so forth, I'll focus on the Index: page and pay closer attention to how long it takes to refresh this time. Appreciate the insights. -Pete (talk) 19:27, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

cyclopaedia of female biography
Hi. Would you be so kind to replace the purples on Index:A cyclopaedia of female biography.djvu from one of the alternates at https://archive.org/search.php?query=cyclopaedia%20of%20female%20biography I am going to build a transclusion template and look to fix the sections on the works so we can get that forgotten work displayed. Thanks — billinghurst  sDrewth  03:59, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Plus if I go through and properly section it, can you easily scrape the section names per Page:A cyclopaedia of female biography.djvu/23? Then we can paste them into the AuxTOC on A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — billinghurst  sDrewth  04:07, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Billinghurst, it is possible. How to do it will depend on the requirements. E.g. is a list of ordered names good enough? Do you need also prev/next sections and page numbers to automatically create pages in main ns? etc. Mpaa (talk) 14:50, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Simply having a list is sufficient, once I have finished the sections I can take it from there. Previously I have done copy and paste while building and that is just a PITA. I just didn't want to get too far along prior to asking. Thanks. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:32, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Billinghurst something like this might do:
 * $ python scripts/listpages.py -prefixindex:"Page:A cyclopaedia of female biography.djvu" -save:female_biography
 * $ order_by_pagenum { grep -o -P "\d+.*?$" | sort -n; }
 * $ make_link { sed -E 's/.*?"([^\"]*?)"/* \/\1\//'; }
 * $ grep -r -o -P '  or something similar. Mpaa (talk) 11:18, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, though the list should be okay as I will feeding it into Template:Cyclopaedia of Female Biography and as the proofreading was so variable on this work, I am going to need to eyeball it again before dropping it into main ns. I will probably also drop it into WD at the same time. — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:58, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Billinghurst See Index:A_cyclopaedia_of_female_biography.djvu/TOC. Note that entries might be repeated if a section starts in one page and end in the next one.


 * Also note that there is mix of curly and straight quotes (e.g. " Albret, Jeanne d’ " and " Altoviti, Marseille d' "), if these section are used as Main ns titles, there will be a mix of styles. Would be better to use only one style (easier to convert all to straight with a bot run ...). Mpaa (talk) 22:02, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Done.Mpaa (talk) 16:02, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and the duplication is useful as it tells me when there is a spread and thus difft from and to. Yes to the curly bracket and I had known that they were there and would need correcting, I just needed to step further through the work to see what issues I was seeing universally prior to validating. I think that I truly have the gist of the work and the needed corrections, plus the scripts to make it easier. I will buzz you when I am at the end so we can run the pages with fixes. — billinghurst  sDrewth  13:17, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

✅ the sections and the next level of proofreading. If you would be so kind to run that script for all those section, I would be appreciated. There are also three pages that are requiring validation, if you have the time. Again, thanks. — billinghurst  sDrewth  06:21, 19 November 2022 (UTC)


 * @Billinghurst see Index:A_cyclopaedia_of_female_biography.djvu/TOC Mpaa (talk) 09:32, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Page:Pywikibot unlinked test page and linterrors
Hi. Page:Pywikibot unlinked test page is generating lint errors due to the  in the footer without a corresponding opening div. Does the CI stuff specifically require it to be unbalanced, or could we add a  up in the header or something just to shut the lint errors up? Not a big deal obviously, but if it causes no problems or extra work it'd be nice, etc. Xover (talk) 13:36, 17 October 2022 (UTC)


 * @Xover I added a div to balance and got no errors in the tests. Should be OK. Mpaa (talk) 19:53, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Xover (talk) 20:08, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Migrating old formatting..
You might find the queries to listpages here useful:-

https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/linthints.ipynb

An eventual objective currently is to migrate   and to templated versions (for content namespaces at least. Some of the more recent queries reflect that goal.)

(Obviously it would be nice to migrate based small-caps as well, but the regexp is more complex.)

Feel free to reuse the queries (some haven't been run in a while). ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:30, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * @ShakespeareFan00 thanks, I am familiar with them (I added support for -linter to pywikibot :-)). What is your goal about span and sc? Could you give an example? Mpaa (talk) 21:54, 27 November 2022 (UTC)


 * It's about replacing :  with   an example being part of the Preamble of Executive_Order_13526.  With a suitable regexp many of these could be done as a semi-automated replacement.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:46, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Replacing 
I'd dealt with some of the easier stuff..

A number of the remainder here seem to need conversion to proper references :- https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F%5C%3Csu%2F&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1

Any chance you could take a look in a spare moment? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:10, 28 November 2022 (UTC)


 * To be honest, not my top priority right now. What's wrong with sup? Mpaa (talk) 18:52, 28 November 2022 (UTC)


 * The migration of SUP was so that one font-size can be set via the template (or via Indexstyles), rather than the current approach of setting it in the Global CSS. In respect of the linked query, I was thinking that these should be proper  tags rather than the hybrid approach used ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 19:01, 28 November 2022 (UTC)