Wikisource:News/2024-04

This month's administrator confirmations
Last month, two Wikisource administrators were up for confirmation. This April, three are— ;, and. Anyone can participate in the confirmation discussions.

Collaboration report: WikiProject Chinese
WikiProject Chinese is a small project founded in 2016 which focuses on (in their words) Of course, fully-Chinese texts are held at Chinese Wikisource, a project home to 455,316 pages.

The project, founded by, has several works-in-progress, ranging from culture to language to law in their topics. One such text is Synoptical studies in the Chinese character, which project participants started work on in 2010. The Dictionary of the Swatow dialect also deserves mention; thanks to  and many others for their work there.

currently has a small backlog of 14 pages. If you're one of the 50+ users who can read Chinese, why not lend a hand?

Miscellaneous

 * There is a proposal at the Scriptorium to make changes to the SIC template.
 * Vector 2022 will be rolled-out as the default skin on on this project on April 3rd. Logged-in editors still have the option to choose their preferred skin in their preferences.
 * A gadget to automatically empty pages marked as "Without text" is now available in beta in Preferences.
 * The broken Special:Book page has been removed from all Wikisources after discussion on Phabricatior. According to the Phabricator report, it was redundant to the newer tool WS Export. This does not affect readers' ability to download books.
 * There is an ongoing effort to replace unsourced versions of Emily Dickinson's poems with scan-backed versions from books; i.e. Poems (Dickinson) and Poems: Second Series (Dickinson).