Mrs. Lance Rawson

“ One possible solution is to transclue the image either after or before the poem, rather than in the midst of it. Plates in older books were displayed wherever it made it convenient for printing and where it looked better in terms of a multi-page book. We're rendering in a different format, where the principles of what looks best are different from thos of a book. ”

“ Hi, welcome to Wikisource. Wikisource:Versions might answer some of your questions. In brief, yes, any version (or even multiple versions) of a book can be digitized on Wikisource, although we'd prefer the closest thing to a first edition where possible (and with high quality scans—again, if possible) . Be careful with a 2005 edition, however, as sufficient editing can create a new copyright (although I doubt anyone would rewrite Shakespeare enough for that to happen) . Also, if you don't work from scans, you need to state the source of the text on the talk page with a {{textinfo}} template. ”

“ All other common tags accept the insertion of one or more span tags and that is what is generated when the page breaks in a transcluded range of Page:s are rendered in the mainspace for the embedded links. The length of a paragraph (or lack of paragraph breaks) across multiple pages in the Page namespace should not affect this. If it does (i.e. you do not see the embedded page links under all 3 dynamic layouts) then trust something is not right. ”

“ Page:The_history_of_yachting.djvu/107
This so-called "book" has too many "filler pages" with nothing of value other than to make the book look thicker. It is worse than any "mess" it is an abomination - an abhorrence. If done right this would be an excellent book but such is not the case. This maze of pretzel-like text and images is as bad as a twisted U shape of a sniper's barrel. This entire mess should be removed, totally removed, completely destroyed because it will never be done, never be repaired nor completed by anyone as it should be on Wikisource -- not by me and not by anyone else. ”

“ I am not sure how the community operates here on Wikisource, but I was wondering if we could encourage collaboration on A Father's Memoirs of his Child, to finish the book. The work is most notable for the introduction because it includes material on William Blake. And that part has already been completed; however, there is a significant number of subsequent pages that could use work (we made some progress during Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry/William Blake/KSU Editathon, but with mostly new editors, it was not much) . Is this the right place for me to be encouraging collaboration? ”

“ Anyone using Linux for Proofreading? I am attempting to slowly move my work to Xubuntu. The current problem is how to define and use the keyboard to compose rarely used ligatures etc., without having to revert to the characters list at the bottom of the page. When proofreading in Windows, I use the memorized ANSI keycode combinations with Alt+Numpad, as well as custom Wiki edit buttons for the most frequently used characters. ”

“ To try starting a page from scratch, try Index:Tales from old Japanese dramas (1915) .djvu; click on one of the un-highlighted page numbers. The goal is, again, to edit the text to match the page scan. When you are done in either case, set the page status to proofread (yellow) with the radio buttons at the bottom of the screen and save the page. Look at Help:Proofread for some more instructions. If you want to start your own work: you need to upload a scan to Wikimedia Commons and start a new index page for it (see Help:Beginner's guide to Index: files for that) . ”

“ Does any section of the text refer back to pages/lines of text in reference? If so, it seems as though some sort of notation might be in order—perhaps using sidenotes somehow as opposed to basic line numbering (which wouldn't work really, in my opinion) . I dunno. Londonjackbooks (talk) 12:59, 22 January 2013 (UTC) My comments would be that the line numbering is the artefact of editor's usually where the work is being used as a reference. To reproduce them in situ is difficult, especially as forcing a width onto a web document without knowing the reading device is a pain in the bum. ”

“ The scans of the images at the Hathi Trust are terrible, with chromatic interference patterning that destroys the image. Wherever someone can find clean images, please use that. The original source of our djvu file at the Internet Archive appears to have been a PDF, so it's not a good choice either. If we can't find a clean copy online, we might have to rescan ourselves, if someone has access to an original edition. ”

“ Nothing here is an issue; merely an explaination of why things have developed the way they have. It still boils down to hosting the video in addition to its transcription. Currently we try to host the scans in addition to the transcription of those scans. And all I've tried to rebuke so far is your unfair claim we are being intentionally biased towards text when the truth is we are biased to hosting the [scans of] the original in addition to the transcription/proofreading of it. Text was/is just easier to manipulate and that is why it became more popular than other formats. ”

“ DAISY FORMAT IN OTHER LANGUAGES Hello, I am a wikimedia volunteer at ml.wikipedia ml.wikisource and an admin in wikiquote ml. I do some volunteering with organizations that work with the Visually impaired. Recently I was asked by a member of the DAISY consortium if we at malayalam wikisource could help the blind read wikisource books and wikipedia articles in DAISY FORMAT. Can we upload DAISY formats onto wikimedia sites? ”

“ Riders of the Purple Sage This is a long-languishing item on my to-do list. Adam suggested that this edition, which is the first edition, ought to be the one uploaded, and the file is certainly the cleanest. I noticed that page 1 is one of those "Google notices" that needs to be removed, and page 2 is the book's cover. However, I need help adjusting the Djvu accordingly, since I have never understood how to remove the Google notice. The file in question is already on Commons here, and the local index file is Index:Riders of the Purple Sage.djvu. ”

“ Go to the page whose title you wish to rename, and look up the top where the "Read", "Edit", "View history" etc, tabs are. There is also a drop-down menu with further options. One of them is "Move". What you want to do is to move the page to the desired new title. Moving is the preferred way to change titles, because the entire history of the page gets moved across. We discourage copying the page content to a brand new title and then deleting the original content, because the history is lost that way. ”

“ This indicates the setting (s) aren't being handed-down/inherited-throughout properly.And a DIV is always a block-level element and will always start on its own line in the HTML rendering - what follows depends on placement. If you put the content that follows right up against that template, you are actually turning what should be a paragraph (and paragraphs, also being a block-level element, should start on a new line by default in typical rendering) into just a SPAN (which is an inline element) ”

“ You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Listen to this text (help | file info or download)
Down loading as PDF does not (try or fail to) bring over the "Listen to this text" section, but does add page numbers when converted to MOBI (conversion by Calibre) .
Obviously the junk phrase nor page numbers are not desired on download. The "listen to this text" as potential benefit to the person browsing the from the web.
Do we have any kind of a solution that can make everyone happy? ”

“ Where image positioning is problematic, especially due to publisher siting the image for convenience of publication, rather than flow of the work and as the author presumably envisaged, I would wrap the image on the image page with , then at an appropriate place within the text. ”

“ Check those instances again after a good purging of your cache and see if the trouble still exists... report back. Template:Smaller block/s and Template:Smaller block/e don't have the same problem because that Smaller block only changes the font size while fine changes the font-size as well the line-height settings. This means if your "block" has multiple paragraphs, typically only the first and/or last paragraphs in the block will "properly" inherit the altered line-height settings - the ones in between will seem to have a third "size" or no "change" at all. ”

“ There is no problem that cannot be resolved. Have no such fears and be willing to face challenges. When entering Wikisource one of the statements is to be bold and that is exactly what we are doing. Too, you are not involved in any of this yet. There are only two of us who have worked with all page images and all of the illustrations. Let us learn and learn in peace. ”

“ What, and endless transcription, proofreading and validation—or indeed considering the affirmation of your sanity by a whole community of such persons is the action of a sane individual? I wouldn't worry about it, unduly! We are surely all similarly afflicted? I expect this is a universal issue (maybe a CSS class has changed?) , because the sample use examples inside the template are affected as well: see Template:FreedImg/doc#Examples. That ice-block is meant to be quite a lot more petite than that. ”

“ Best thing to do is to use
for line endings within a block of text and then outdent, hanging indent &c. work. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 01:24, 19 August 2013 (UTC) Um... a hanging indent assumes the text will wrap, but a poem tag assumes it won't. Either you want the text to wrap or you don't, so there should never be a time those two formatting items are used together on the same text. Just start the poem tag near the bottom, with the block where it's appropriate, instead of trying to get the line breaks in specific locations for the first several paragraphs. ”

“ If you have 500 pages of a book on your watch list and you want to remove them; with ’Edit watchlist’, you have to check each page; with ’Edit raw watchlist’ you can select all of them with your mouse, remove them, and save the changes. Other magic options are available depending on your skill set. Jeepday (talk) 22:40, 14 January 2013 (UTC) But why would you want to rename titles in the watchlist? A personalized reference system (as it seems to me to be) seems logical—it reminds me of renaming a folder on your computer, but what purpose (s) might a page such as that serve here? ”

“ I won't say that isn't clever... and it certainly works... but it would be a brave person would come up with that solution up-front and expect it not to break the parser. In fact, I'm not too sure you'd always get away with mixing wikicode and pure HTML like that. I suspect coding the lot in raw HTML might be the safest/most comprehensible way—in which case what is mediawiki really doing for us other than supplying the editor? ”

“ By my reading (although IANAL) , this would even allow us to actually upload their video of Hyde's speech (or, indeed, even the full day's coverage, if we wanted to) to Commons. However, I am not recommending that we do this. We don't have to: we just need to link to it. Now, since C-SPAN doesn't claim a copyright to the video itself, how could they possibly claim copyright to the content of a transcript of the video — even complete with timestamps? ”

“ Maybe there is a setting somewhere that would trigger it on the main page on every hard refresh. However, since Lua is running on the server, that seems inadvisable in any case. --Eliyak T·C 08:43, 20 October 2013 (UTC) So, I'm done working on this for now, but it occurs to me that there may be a way to do what we want with JavaScript (ie common.js, which runs client-side) . We could pre-load a large enough amount of entries (say 1000-2000) , and have Javascript do what I was doing with Lua. (the code is at Module:Sequence and Module:Math if anyone is interested.) ”

“ Of course, this is just my opinion; not policy. -- George Orwell III (talk) 21:03, 15 June 2013 (UTC) My own view is that the images we process serve a greater good. Once they're uploaded on Commons, they are useable not only here, but also on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, and other MW projects. Their presence then serves to promote what we do here, and to raise awareness of this project, in a way that goes beyond the mere availability of the text which (as you say) may already be accessed from many locations. ”

“ Byrd's staff is just as lazy as Salon's reporters were - It should be no surprise to anyone by now that both politicians and the media work together at times and/or conspire against each other at times with the ultimate goal to secure more votes on the one hand and obtain higher ratings for the other. ”

“ Maybe then this circle-jerk with inter-language linking this & sister-linking that will finally start to fade (You might not have been around yet but I was never in favor of embedding stuff into the navigation header in the first place fwiw. I only work to "improve" upon it however I can because that is what the community wanted & decided; my PoV is over-ruled by that) . -- George Orwell III (talk) 14:40, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
Also what about multiple links, each to a local Author: page; each one of which links to exactly one wikipedia page... ”