Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives

Historical
Early discussion took place on the talk pages of the Main Page (talk) and Main Page:English (talk) on the original multilingual Wikisource. In September 2005, a warning was placed on Talk:Main Page that it was only for discussion of the Main Page, and all general discussion was moved to Scriptorium.
 * 2003
 * September (ps.wikisource)— Discussions: Wikisource is up
 * 2003-2005
 * April (multilingual Wikisource)— Discussions: Picture
 * August (multilingual Wikisource)— Discussions: Name of the project
 * September (talk:Main Page)— Discussion deleted in project move: Problem with movement of main page

2005

 * September— Discussions: Problem with viewing Unicode
 * October— Discussions: Page lengths
 * December 15— Discussions: Why are some things even modifiable?
 * December 31— Discussions: The Librarian Project

2006

 * January— Discussions: Authors who are still in copyright
 * February— Discussions: Please Vote link at the top all the pages
 * March
 * Proposals— Adding something to Mediawiki:Common.css (2 subtopics: ".hiddenStructure" and "Pilaf's Live Preview")
 * Announcements— New logo vote
 * Questions— Free ? ... or not ?
 * Other— Vatican copyright
 * April
 * Proposals— Language categories
 * Announcements— Template for small-caps
 * Questions— Applause
 * Other discussions— Permissions
 * May
 * Proposals— Standardise the Bible (3 subtopics)
 * Announcements— Checkuser permissions
 * Questions— MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism, copyright legalities
 * Other discussions— Non commercial texts
 * June
 * Proposals— Fundamentally rethink categories
 * Announcements— CommonsTicker.
 * Questions— Footer for universal PD by failure to renew copyright, and more
 * Other discussions— Standardise eras
 * July
 * Proposals— Bot policy
 * Announcements— Spam whitelist
 * Questions— Farsi page
 * Other discussions— About myself
 * August
 * Proposals— Change MediaWiki:Nstab-main (1 subtopic)
 * Announcements— Special:Import.
 * Questions— Category:Works by year (2 subtopics)
 * Other discussions— Spoken Wikisource
 * September
 * Proposals— Administrator policy: Confidence threshold
 * Questions— Case Law.
 * Other discussions— A better mousetrap
 * October
 * Proposals— Converting Major Works to .pdf
 * Announcements— Side by side image view for proofreading
 * Questions— "Page" namespace
 * Other discussions— Royal Society Journals free only until December (1 subtopic)
 * November
 * Proposals:
 * Questions: Crimen Solliciatonis
 * Other discussions: You know what I'd love?
 * December
 * Announcements: Automated deletion of old soft redirects: script available
 * Proposals: What Wikisource includes/new draft
 * Questions: Guam Laws (3 subtopics)
 * Other discussions: New pages by anon. users

2007

 * February
 * Announcements: IRC stalk words
 * Proposals: DynamicPageList
 * Questions: Server time
 * Other discussions: Wanted! Project ideas for possible grant
 * April
 * Announcements: Copyright licensing help
 * Proposals: Collaboration of the Week
 * Other discussions: Speeches
 * Questions: Can I make my book available on Wikisource?
 * June
 * Announcements: Petition to claim the rule of the shorter term
 * Proposals: Bot flag for EagleBot
 * Other discussions: More copyright complexities (4 subsections)
 * Questions: Just checking, testimony before congress, PD?
 * August
 * Announcements: Endorsements now open for Wikimedia Foundation Board
 * Proposals: Sidebar link to the Scriptorium
 * Other discussions: Locking of Template:New texts
 * Questions: Works released into public
 * September
 * Announcements: JavaScript cleanup.
 * Proposals: Bot request: JVbot
 * Other discussions: site-independent JavaScript/article tab breakage
 * Questions: Protected against recreation
 * Question about copyrights on a possibly plagiarized text prior to inclusion.
 * October
 * Announcements: (none).
 * Proposals: Image integrity
 * Other discussions: Obituaries.
 * Questions: 1/1/2008?
 * November
 * Announcements: (none).
 * Proposals: The huge leap
 * Other discussions: Consensus check (11 subsections).
 * Questions: Images uploaded here
 * December
 * Announcements: OCR Bot.
 * Proposals: Gadgets extension
 * Other discussions: Template:no header

2008

 * January
 * Announcements: Page: namespace, status of pages
 * Proposals: Remove permanent link from header temple
 * Other discussions: Commons Picture of the Year
 * Questions: 70 years
 * February
 * Announcements: (none)
 * Proposals: Author-PD-none
 * Other discussions: Ulysses
 * Questions: Bot flag request: Polbot, take 2
 * March: none
 * April
 * May
 * Announcements: HotCat
 * Proposals: Wikimedia Radio
 * Other discussions: How to create a DJVU file
 * Questions: The license on licenses
 * June
 * Announcements
 * Proposals: FlaggedRevisions
 * Other discussions: Composite encyclopedia pages
 * Questions: Sufism/Nasrudin
 * July
 * Proposals: Main page design (again!)
 * Questions: Published Texts about the United States' Civil War
 * August
 * Announcements: Sources for Australian works
 * Proposals: Add PDF download option
 * Questions:One-page and PDF versions of book
 * September
 * Proposals :New paragraph at top of page
 * Other discussions : font-size formatting templates
 * Questions : A nice "Licence"
 * October
 * Announcements : LinkPatroller.js Gadget
 * Proposals : Trust and Duty
 * Questions : Using ProofreadPage with EB1911
 * November
 * Announcements : Edittools import
 * Proposals : Autopatrolled
 * Other discussions : Two character Author initial
 * Questions : Braces
 * December
 * Proposals : Unify transcription namespaces
 * Questions : Template:PD-ZimGovDoc

2009

 * January
 * Announcements :Upload file size limit increased
 * Proposals :Deletion policy: closure by uninvolved administrator
 * Questions : Copyright Status of Posthumous Publications
 * February
 * Announcements :Newly prepared set of copyright licenses
 * Proposals :Semi-protect for Canadian legislation
 * Other discussions : similar template in Author: namespace
 * Questions : Line numbering
 * March
 * Announcements :Wikisource:Possible copyright violations
 * Proposals :Wiki Money
 * Other discussions : CrankyLibrarian project
 * Questions :Testimony from a British courtroom
 * April
 * Announcements : gifs broken
 * Proposals : Statically mirroring some Wikipedia articles
 * Other discussions : Author:Anonymous
 * Questions : The Iliad vs. The Iliad of Homer rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original vs. The Iliad (Butler)
 * May
 * Announcements : Wikipedia AFD: The Free Bible
 * Proposals : Transwiki Bot Request
 * Other discussions : Headerless pages requiring cleanup and Wanted Authors
 * Questions : Need a book imported.
 * June
 * Announcements :Votes of confidence
 * Proposals : Autopatrolled permission
 * Questions : Exporting as pdf
 * July
 * Proposals : Bold button "edit"
 * Other discussions :A New Undertaking
 * Questions :The Anglo-Saxon Wikisource
 * August
 * Announcements :Autopatrolled
 * Proposals : Keeping Template:new texts fresh
 * Other discussions :Template:Author and the name parameter
 * Questions : Orig. author should be credited, I believe, not default "Wikisource contributors"
 * September
 * Announcements :OCR Gadget
 * Proposals :Collapsible pages
 * Other discussions :Translation licenses
 * Questions : Elections Notice
 * October
 * Announcements : Links to pages from index pages
 * Proposals : Restructure of Featured texts
 * Other discussions :Index popularity
 * Questions : Transclusion of footnotes over different pages
 * November
 * Announcements :Welsh Wills prior to 1858
 * Proposals :Proposals of texts
 * Other discussions :Nolo's Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Blog
 * Questions : Dynamic Page List
 * December
 * Announcements :November is Validation Month
 * Proposals : New bot proposal
 * Other discussions :Video transcripts
 * Questions : Stale page link coloring on index page?

2010

 * /Musical Notation/
 * January
 * Announcements :Match and Split tool
 * Proposals :Mark as patrolled
 * Questions : Index page without and with Table of Contents
 * February
 * Announcements :New copyright tags for posthumous works
 * Proposals :Move PD-manifesto works to Canadian Wikilivres?
 * Questions : Google Books
 * April
 * Announcements : PDF page cropping template
 * Proposals :Leave background colors alone
 * Other discussions :Helping new editors with common templates
 * Questions : Public Domain Day in the UK
 * May
 * Announcements :New lower case diacritic templates
 * Questions : listen and video .ogg
 * June
 * Announcements : Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest open!
 * Proposals : Consideration to introducing Rollback privileges
 * Questions : How many pages on your watchlist?
 * July
 * Announcements :Nominations at Administrators
 * Proposals :January 1, 2019 is upon us: Non-Public Archiving
 * Other discussions : reddit
 * Questions : Bot flag request for SKbot
 * August
 * Announcements:Canadian Wikilivres and final notice to fully abolish PD-manifesto
 * Proposals:add edits to watchlist as default
 * Questions:Bot flag request for BenchBot
 * September
 * Announcements:Usability Initiative (Vector) Rollout Coming
 * Proposals:Link to a whole text version
 * Other discussions:Upgrading HotCat
 * Questions:Header templates
 * October
 * Questions:Transclusion breaks sidenotes
 * November
 * Questions:Category needed for articles with no scanned djvu to verify contents
 * December
 * Announcements:UK to review its Copyright laws
 * Proposals:Structure Portals by Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress Classification
 * Questions:Why line breaks are removed?

2011

 * January
 * Announcements:enws.org as short redirect to Wikisource
 * Proposals:Proposal to disable and hide the "Download as PDF" link
 * Other discussions:General problem about licensing
 * February
 * Announcements:Request for comment on local administrators
 * Proposals:Proposal to modify way works are categorized in the index page
 * BOT approval requests:User:JackBot
 * Other discussions:Ada and PD-US
 * March
 * Proposals:Installation of mw:Extension:DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)
 * BOT approval requests:EnBot
 * Other discussions:Plagiarism of Translation?
 * April
 * Announcements:PLANNED Mediawiki upgrade Tuesday, February 8, starting at 07:00 UTC
 * Proposals:Provisional ban of the person who most recently edited as Longfellow
 * Other discussions:US only books via HathiTrust
 * September
 * Announcements:Nomination for a bureaucrat
 * Proposals:New Main Page format
 * BOT approval requests:phe-bot
 * Other discussions:Third Party Help with the editing of Cygnis insignis
 * October
 * Announcements:Looks like Wikisource Mobile is active
 * Proposals:Authorize Crats to promote for all sysop rights
 * Other discussions:Table help please
 * November
 * Announcements:Mediawiki upgrade news at Wikimedia
 * BOT approval requests:CandalBot
 * Other discussions:Herbert Asquith's Poems: 1912-1933 (1934)
 * December
 * Announcements:Vote of confidence in sysop Cygnis insignis
 * Proposals:Default layouts (a solution)
 * Other discussions:Recent changes for a particular project

2012

 * January
 * Other discussions:Greek help please
 * February
 * Announcements:Changed default to ON for Gadget Header preloader
 * Proposals:Parameter addition for Author template?
 * BOT approval requests:Request of approval for bots for PSM maintenance in the main namespaces
 * Other discussions:Template subdocument Category doesn't sort
 * April
 * Announcements:Wikisources' software application updated to 1.19wmf1
 * Proposals:Proposal: add Worldcat ID to template:author
 * BOT approval requests:User:Addihockey10 (automated)
 * Other discussions:Ink removed from footnote
 * May
 * Announcements:Wikitech discusses sister project
 * Proposals:Add Portal namespace to default search
 * BOT approval requests:PSM maintenance in Page:ns
 * Other discussions:Customizing Hesperian's cleanup gadget with work-specific js variables: it.source way
 * June
 * Proposals:Add WSexport to sidebar
 * Other discussions:Extemporaneous speech
 * July
 * Announcements:Update on IPv6
 * Proposals:Alternate accounts
 * Other discussions:Cuneiform
 * August
 * Announcements:Voting is about to close
 * Proposals:Remove "Excerpt or Mixture" from the index Level of Progress options
 * BOT approval requests:Bot flag request for タチコマ robot
 * Other discussions:Exit Survey - why I quit
 * September
 * Announcements:MediaWiki 1.20/wmf9 deploying to all wikis by August 29
 * Proposals:Page Triage
 * Other discussions:Was there a software update that we weren't told about?
 * October
 * Announcements:Poem extension updated
 * Proposals:Better help page index
 * BOT approval requests:HesperianBot
 * Other discussions:List of interesting books in public domain in US due to non-renewal
 * November
 * Announcements:MediaWiki 1.21/Roadmap
 * Proposals:Changes to two Proofreadpage messages
 * Other discussions:Help with Proofreading US District Court Jury Verdict

2013

 * February
 * Announcements: Index fill gadget (development)
 * Proposals: Adding Books to the sidebar menu
 * BOT approval requests: AuCoBot
 * Other discussions: BUG: Transcludable sections in tables/templates
 * March
 * Announcements:Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia. Read-only mode expected.
 * Proposals:Changing MediaWiki:Newarticletext
 * BOT approval requests:90 day warnings posted
 * Other discussions:Problematic
 * April
 * Announcements:Wikisource top page hits for works 2011-2012
 * Proposals:Derivative works
 * Other discussions:Enhanced editing toolbar
 * May
 * Announcements:MediaWiki 1.22/wmf1 here now, and 1.22/wmf2 next week
 * Proposals:Changing the community collaboration?
 * BOT approval requests:Notice of bot run: adding date category to validated indexes
 * Other discussions:When Validated
 * June
 * Proposals:Tumblr update
 * Other discussions:Closure on bot confirmations
 * July
 * Other discussions:Help test the new account creation and login
 * August
 * Announcements:Vote of confidence in sysop ResidentScholar
 * Proposals:Mark Translations as Policy
 * BOT approval requests:Bot Confirmation July 2013
 * Other discussions:Width option to Hanging indent
 * September
 * Announcements:Wikisource:Anniversaries
 * BOT approval requests:Bot flag request for BrandeisBot
 * Other discussions:More on unlocking images
 * October
 * Announcements:Wikisource's 10th Anniversary
 * Proposals:To change a configuration setting concerning images
 * Other discussions:Gibberish text in PDF of California 9th Circuit Court decision
 * November
 * Announcements:English Wikisource to trial new CirrusSearch
 * Proposals:Verifiability Requirement
 * Other discussions:History of the Anti Corn Law League VOLII
 * December
 * Announcements:Wikidata to support language links in January 2014
 * Proposals:Make the PurgeTab gadget default
 * Other discussions:Approaching 1 million content pages at enWS

2014

 * January
 * Announcements:EditTool is now deprecated
 * Other discussions:Tech News: 2013-47
 * February
 * Proposals:Expand New texts
 * Other discussions:Goals for 2014
 * March
 * Announcements:Wikidata ↔ Wikisource phase 2 proposed
 * Proposals:Facilitating interwiki bots for Wikidata migration
 * Other discussions:Have title boxes become excessively wide?
 * April
 * Announcements:Wellcome images made available with Creative Commons licence
 * Proposals:Main Page Improvements
 * Other discussions:Index:Catalogue of books suitable for a popular library.djvu
 * May
 * Proposals:Featured authors
 * Other discussions:Authority Control, VIAF, and pseudonyms
 * June
 * Proposals:Recycling a deprecated font template name
 * Other discussions:A comment on the place of nop
 * July
 * Announcements:If you think a gadget is broken &hellip; aka jQuery updating
 * Proposals:RFC: Disclosure policy
 * Other discussions:LGBT collaboration as part of Wiki Loves Pride 2014?
 * September
 * Announcements:Identifying any Toolserver links
 * Proposals:Automated import of openly licensed scholarly articles
 * BOT approval requests:Reconfirm User:Cswikisource-bot
 * Other discussions:Constant script errors
 * October
 * Announcements:User global javascript and css configuration
 * Proposals:A template that causes links to Wikipedia to appear in dark blue
 * BOT approval requests:Recitation-bot testing
 * Other discussions:What do you want from search?
 * November
 * Announcements:A Unicode character map
 * Other discussions:mw:Extension:TemplateData utilising this locally
 * December
 * Proposals:Standard handling of Errata
 * BOT approval requests:Recitation-bot testing
 * Other discussions:HHVM revealing new weirdness

2015

 * January
 * Announcements:User Research - sign-up to help out
 * BOT approval requests:User:Wikisource-bot
 * Other discussions:Epub ebook download
 * February
 * Proposals:Switch header template foundation from table-based to division-based
 * Other discussions:Index:The Botanical Magazine, Volume 2 (1788).djvu
 * March
 * Proposals:Recommendation for proofreading by unregistered users
 * Other discussions:Survey
 * May:Milestones achieved
 * Proposals:Possible bot to determine relevant popular wikipedia pages
 * Other discussions:File:The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.pdf
 * June
 * Proposals:Charinsert modification proposal
 * Other discussions:Checking a .djvu for missing pages
 * July
 * Announcements:An interesting article about font history
 * Proposals:Move the authority control template to the bottom-most position
 * BOT approval requests:request for bot flag on account SHSPbot
 * Other discussions:New Gadget
 * August
 * Proposals:Template and its documentation deletion proposal
 * Other discussions:Famous passages as separate works
 * October
 * Announcements:International Wikisource Conference, Vienna - November 20-22, 2015
 * Proposals:Split the scriptorium?
 * BOT approval requests:request for bot flag on account KasparBot
 * Other discussions:Need to edit a copy-protected page
 * November
 * BOT approval requests:request for bot flag on account BD2412bot
 * Other discussions:m:Grants:PEG/WCUG Wikisource/Wikisource Conference 2015
 * December
 * BOT approval requests:request for bot run permission for AkBot
 * Other discussions:Automating creation of Index files for 800+ documents from UNESCO

2016

 * January
 * Other discussions:"Proofreading" toolbar not appearing
 * February
 * Announcements:Achievements in 2015
 * Proposals:Wikimedia Foundation seeking feedback about message notifications
 * Other discussions:Checker
 * March
 * Announcements:New feature “Watch changes in category membership
 * Proposals:A somewhat important link is missing
 * Bot approval requests:RileyBot
 * Other discussions:Kindle users: Please check mobi export form
 * April
 * Announcements:Wikilegal Copyright of Political Speeches
 * Proposals:Neutralize the superfluous message of the nop Gadget
 * Other discussions:Clarification on copyright of a book and its images.
 * August
 * Announcements:Beta: Create a VisualEditor plugin to integrate with Wikisource
 * Other discussions:U.S. Supreme Court Style Manual!
 * September
 * Announcements:250,000 Validated Pages
 * Proposals:Importing pre-1923 works from Canadian Wikilivres
 * Repairs (and moves):Index:Index:Ministry to US Catholic LGBTQ Youth - A Call for More Openness and Affirmation.pdf
 * Other discussions:What free software and web resources do you use when contributing to Wikisource?
 * October
 * Announcements:User:Eclecticology
 * Proposals:Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP)
 * Bot approval requests:Removal of local authority control data
 * Other discussions:Copyright problems which may arise from secondary sources.
 * November
 * Other discussions:Wikisource on Wiktionary
 * December
 * Other:Author pages without a license — maintenance

2017

 * January
 * Announcements:2016 Community Wishlist Survey
 * Proposals:A plethora of cache controls
 * Bot approval requests:Fluxbot
 * Repairs (and moves) Author:Edward Stanley (1779–1849)
 * Other discussions:Information about Presidential Electors and where to put them
 * February
 * Announcements:Project by New Law College Pune
 * Proposals:Font-style and font-size of layout 2 of display options
 * Other discussions:PhD theses from Edinburgh University
 * March
 * Other discussions : Index:An Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress.djvu
 * April
 * Other discussions : Author's names
 * May
 * Repairs (and moves):Index:CAB_Accident_Report,_Pennsylvania_Central_Airlines_Flight_19.pdf
 * Other discussions:nop, it's overloaded use and possible replacement.
 * June
 * Other discussions: Index:The life and times of King Edward VII by Whates, Harry Richard 2.pdf
 * July
 * Announcements : Do you create PDFs on Wikimedia wikis?
 * Other discussions : Tech News: 2017-25
 * August
 * Other discussionsA question about the random work search Cutters Practical Guide
 * September
 * Announcements:Free BabelPad editor for Windows
 * Repairs (and moves):Poems of the Great War and Index:Poems of the Great War - Cunliffe.djvu
 * Other discussions:Is Khrushchev's secret speech in the public domain or not?
 * October
 * Other discussions:Cleanup of a source, but making it no longer verbatim
 * November
 * Other discussions:Red Badge of Courage
 * December
 * Announcements:2017 Community Wishlist Survey
 * Proposals:Proposal to standardize the table style template shorthand codes.
 * Bot approval requests:SpBot
 * Repairs (and moves):Index:Angelo's Pic Nic.djvu
 * Other discussions:Second Edition of Wikisource Conference during 2018 at Strasbourg

2018

 * January
 * Other discussions:WS:FTC
 * February
 * Other discussions: Strange business with Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier
 * March
 * Other discussions: Possibility of adding "LocalLiveClock" to gadgets
 * April
 * Other discussions:
 * April:Talk to us about talking
 * Other discussions:Wikisource Community User Group representative vote
 * May:Copyright question
 * June
 * Other discussions:Introducing Toolhub
 * July
 * Repairs (and moves):Statutes at large Missing pages
 * Other discussions:OCR for Persian
 * August
 * Other discussions:Upright vs. Normal
 * September
 * Announcements:Initiative for coordinating documentation, practices and solutions of misc. Wikisource versions
 * Repairs (and moves):Index:Her Benny - Silas K Hocking.djvu and pages
 * Other discussions:N-like character
 * October
 * Other discussions:Tech News: 2018-40
 * November
 * Other discussions:Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
 * December
 * Other discussions:Placing template for globally locked accounts

2019

 * January
 * Other discussions: Antony and Cleopatra (1921) Yale
 * February
 * Other discussions: Changes to page numbering
 * March
 * Other discussions: Small admin fix needed
 * April
 * Talk to us about talking
 * Abuse
 * Zodiac Killer letters
 * Tech News: 2019-14
 * Other discussions: Wikisource Community User Group representative vote
 * Other discussions:
 * May
 * Other discussions: Visual works on Wikisource
 * June
 * Other discussions: Interwiki
 * July
 * Other discussions: Proofreading, OCR cleanup script...
 * August
 * Other discussions: Border/table interaction problem
 * September
 * Other discussions: Copyright and deletion discussions needing community input in September 2019
 * October
 * Other discussions: Is Wikisource no longer getting indexed by Google and other search engines?
 * November
 * Other discussions: Transcription completeness and traditional vs. modern finding aids (i.e., tables of contents, indices, search engines)
 * December
 * Other discussions: Copyright and deletion discussions needing community input in December 2019

2020

 * January
 * Other discussions
 * February
 * Other discussions: How many files should we load?
 * March
 * Other discussion: Copyright and deletion discussions needing community input in March 2020
 * April
 * Other discussions: Someone with css smarts to update Template:Dotted TOC page listing
 * May
 * Other discussion: These things bother me
 * June
 * Tech News: 2020-23
 * July
 * Feedback on movement names
 * August
 * Tech News: 2020-32
 * September
 * How you find out what other people did
 * October
 * Wikilivres is back
 * November
 * Admin edit to MediaWiki page
 * December
 * Feedback requested on November update for Wikisource ebook export project

2021

 * January
 * Feedback requested on font template
 * February
 * Tech News: 2021-05
 * March
 * April
 * May
 * June
 * July
 * August
 * September
 * October
 * November
 * December

2022

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2023

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