“ I have never felt that the "override author" parameter override was a good way of doing things. A simple and single symbol that could be used whenever and wherever an override was required, not just in headers, would be more efficient. "Override author" is awkward and counter-intuitive. Corporate authors need a preferred place in the heading, and to be treated like any other author. ”

“ Now, I would happily steal you for the magnificent DNB and our project page is Wikisource:WikiProject_DNB, note though there are some other 'pretenders' who think that their projects are also worthwhile. [ducking shoes] . I would think that the best projects to be involved with are either Proofread of the Month or Contributor of the Week. We are an eclectic and (mostly) friendly bunch. Personal preference for PotM as there are always new things to try. Always feel welcome to also pop into the IRC channel #wikisource. ”

“ The header itself is not a part of the work; it is an artifact for linking that work with the rest of Wikisource. Author names as they appear on a title page vary considerably in time and place, and a preferred name form helps in linking things together. There will always be a place for showing the title-page form in the body of the page. ”

“ Only hatred and violence against women is acceptable. No, no, I'm kidding of course. We do not censor what we host, you are free to upload hate literature that is free of copyright restrictions and notable. In fact, we have Wikisource:Ku Klux Klan, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and similar works. ”

“ The personal touch is always more meaningful than a templated picture that is as thrilling as one more toaster as a wedding gift. Linking your praise to a specific activity by the recipient shows him that you have actually looking favorably at his work, as in something like "I appreciate what you have been doing at [ [ ... ] ] . Keep up the good work." Eclecticology - the offended (talk) 17:47, 12 October 2009 (UTC) Index page editing bug: double quote escaping When the index page editing interface loads, the JavaScript (?) seems to truncate existing field values at double quotes. ”

“ Generally I leave fully expanded names as they are and create redirects as needed.
Anyway, I welcome the discussions and feedback on how to improve the work that I feed the bot. Though can I suggest that starting off as a criticism, or bringing in feelings of happiness, or values of unquestionable wrongness brings in a subjectivity. There is a lot of back of house maintenance and no-one really working on the tedious/curatorial, so if we can be positive and forward looking and thinking about fixes, rather than backward looking and critical, that would be fantastic. ”

“ The Alt Sex Stories Text Repository probably adds more erotic text to their archive every year than was published before 1923, if not all history, and a lot of it isn't very nice. Stopping Wikisource, an Internet library, from publishing historically published erotic works isn't going to change people's masturbation habits one bit ”

“ Who are the developers? Who are the developers of the beta skin of Wikisource? I am tried using it but, the editor is missing features specific to Wikisource. I find the simplicity of the skin layout easy on my eyes. I use it in Wikipedia. Ineuw (talk) 17:29, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
The beta skin is the beta skin. I am presuming that you are meaning the Page: namespace, which hasn't been adapted for the Page: environment by the WMF developers, and I wouldn't have thought that we would look to make localisation changes until it comes out of beta and is adopted. ”

“ I think most of them are familiar with w:WP:CENSORED and the frankness of Wikipedia's articles on sex, and would understand that Wikisource, as a library, would try to be similarly comprehensive. There's also a danger in that argument, in that you don't want to give every person who tosses a few bucks your way control over what you post, and worrying about hypothetical donaters can be paralyzing. The best is to set up clear policy and let people donate if they find that acceptable. ”

“ Author:David Livingstone. 12:44, 16 October 2009 (UTC) Problems with new update The latest code update seems to have introduced a serious problem with respect to flowing paragraphs across pages. If I'm not much mistaken, the problem is that, on any page saved since the update, a carriage return is forced at the end of a page. Thus any transclusion page that uses a separate line for each {{page}} call (i.e. most of them) will produce blocks of transcluded text separated by two successive carriage returns, resulting in an unwanted paragraph break at each page break. ”

“ As we are (still) a fairly tight-knit community, where each major contributor/admin knows each of the other major contributors/admins, we are quite liberal in simply appointing anybody who we'd trust with Rollback, to full Admin status :) Personally, I think this fact helps maintain our pleasant atmosphere, since it avoids creating "ranks" where drama and squabbling break out and people begin grabbing their webcam and a ruler to prove who has the largest ePenis. ”

“ So far our collected obituaries are about person's who may be considered notable, or are in support of the authors of works who have Author: namespace listings. You can have a look at some via Wikisource:Obituaries or Category:Obituaries that said, there is also the opportunity to collect via publication, and you will see some of the same data presented via The Times from Wikisource:Newspapers My basic approach is if the person has an article at Wikipedia:, then we can host their obituary, as that becomes a source for the article, and directly wikilinkable. ”

“ Many thanks Prosfilaes, the cat has revived. :-) Ineuw (talk) 02:54, 25 October 2009 (UTC) Hidden headers I am unclear about the text style for the hidden [+] page header. I noticed on a validated page, that the header line is in a template embedded within a template (Italics and other styles) . Currently, I just clean and place the page heading in capitals, followed, or preceded by the page number. Does this template have anything to do with the TOC, or the index? ”

“ It is difficult to know in advance what links will be of value. 3. I'm not a big supporter of the necessity of having a copy of the scanned material, especially when it is otherwise easily accessible. That said, if no scans are provided it is essential that a bibliographical description of the precise source be provided to enable future Wikisourcerors to verify the material. 4. There are also differences of approach to the naming of these articles. Obituaries of persons are a subset of biographies. ”

“ The author parameter should only be for authors; illustrators, translators, editors, etc., I feel have no place in that field. If we want to put that information in the actual header (which I do believe is a good idea) they should be given their own parameters (like | illustrator = ) so that we can process it as (pseudo) metadata and can add automatic categories (e.g. Category:Illustrated works) based on the existence of those fields.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 16:18, 6 October 2009 (UTC) So what about expanding the author's name to its full form instead of what was on the book in the second edit? ”

“ Finally, best practice is to upload the document to commons as a DjVu (if multipage) or png/jpeg (if a single page) , then proof against the image using the ProofReadPage extension; however, that is a lot to learn for someone just starting out here. Hesperian 06:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
1. Do we want obituaries? Absolutely! I'm sure that you will find strong agreement on that point. 2. Please, the whole thing, not just extracts. Having whole articles avoids the POV problems that can arise in the selection process. ”

“ It doesn't show up on the page at all, just when they click "Edit", they'll notice it and be warned that's an intentional mistake. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Author:David Livingstone. 22:49, 18 October 2009 (UTC) A number of aspects to this. Generally Type What You See (TWYS) Also with our greater use of the Page: environment and side by side, it is more evident if it is HOW IT WAS otherwise then a scan or transcriber error. American spelling versus proper spelling ;-) Archaic text is usually formatted differently, so it is what it is. We tend to automatically accept. ”

“ Author:David Livingstone. 18:15, 15 October 2009 (UTC) There's no formal notability guidelines, and notability as a guideline at all is a bit controversial. Wikisource:What Wikisource includes is the inclusion guidelines; most notably the emphasis is on earlier works, and modern self-published works are excluded. I suspect most of us would be impatient with people wanting to upload their own racist rantings, but we have a number of historical ones. ”

“ This only works if the PDF file is uploaded to the Internet Archive. IA doesn't add the text layer to an existing DJVU. Yann (talk) 09:42, 16 October 2009 (UTC) as I already explained to Billinghurst, I recently added a "match" command to ThomasBot. This command compares the text layer of an existing djvu (supposed to contain raw ocr text) to a page of the wiki (supposed to contain a proofread text) , in order to find out the page positions. once the page positions have been found, the "split" command can be used to migrate the text to the page namespace. ”

“ I looked for a space to leave this proposal but I failed to find one by looking at the links in the main page. If there is such a place for asking for possible new additions to Wikisource, wouldn't it be a good idea to make it conspicuous. Thanks. --80.5.88.40 18:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
WS:RT. :) --Eliyak T·C 05:13, 19 October 2009 (UTC) {{Header}} and Scans I would like to propose that we look to add (yet) another field to {{header}} that provides a direct link to the relevant image file Index: page. ”

“ Is there any other way to solve this in the new version? It's not a problem for us, who has been editing proofreading-pages some time. But it's a problem when newbies are introduced. And Yes, I can edit MediaWiki-namnspace if that's required... -- Lavallen (talk) 16:28, 25 September 2009 (UTC) I will fix the noeditsection thing; in the meantime it is possible to add it to Mediawiki:Proofreadpage_default_header ThomasV (talk) 17:34, 25 September 2009 (UTC) modifying the css is actually better : .ns-104 .editsection { visibility:hidden ”

“ Wikisource:Style guide Template:Author Template:Header Authors Guidance is given that natural authors use the AUTHOR field and others should not be linked and have OVERRIDE_AUTHOR, example given is UK Parliament, and I have left all US Congress links. ”

“ Author:Carl Linnaeus. 03:57, 4 October 2009 (UTC) Also have a look at Wikisource:Translations. There is a interwiki matching technology that one of our developers has that is available, however, as Sherurcij says, it relies on having something in the deWS first. -- billinghurst (talk) 07:14, 4 October 2009 (UTC) Will the German WS accept the libretto without any scans to back it up? Something in the back of my head tells them they'll just delete it. ”

“ File:Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey (page 130 detail) 2.png Cygnis insignis (talk) 18:23, 23 October 2009 (UTC) Thanks all, thanks Cyg. I have been using Fireshot for quick image grabs. -- billinghurst (talk) 20:59, 23 October 2009 (UTC) Just Throwing this out there A Simple English Wikisource. What is everyone's thoughts on contributing also to a simple english wikisource make things a little easier for esl people seniors younger children and disabled people also anyone can really contribute if they choose to. ”