“ Works published in 1923, that entered public domain this year were works that had registered a US copyright, and renewed, but the renewal has now expired. The end result is public domain, but the reasons are very different, so we have discussed using a new template to mark these cases instead of adjusting an existing template. But any conversation on this topic should happen in the previously existing thread instead of here. There is no reason to run two simultaneous threads on the same topic. ”

“ This is a global configuration that affects all pages in all namespaces on a given wiki. It is also not, that I have found, changeable by the local community (you need to request the change from the WMF) . However, there exists an extension named PerPageLicense that claims to let you specify a license on a per-namespace or even per-page basis. The extension is not installed on enWS, and cannot be installed by the local community (must be requested from WMF; who are likely to ask pointed questions, drag their heels, and involve WMF Legal first) . ”

“ I agree; all works published more than 95 years ago are now public domain in the US. Those 1923 works now entering the public domain are no different than the 1922 works that entered the public domain in 1998. ”

“ License text Many publishers are negligent or deliberately deceptive in reporting to their users the copyright status of materials in the public domain, or under a free license. One of the ways Wikimedia sets itself apart, in general, is by giving readers (and potential reusers) clear information about licensing. But in one respect, I think we fall short. At the bottom of every Wikisource page is the following text:
"Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ”

“ Projects like WS and WT are very, very different from the "expected" model based on what happens at WP and Commons. So much so that the usual guidance doesn't apply. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:59, 18 January 2019 (UTC) Fair point. But still, based on my (necessarily limited) understanding, I don't see any big problem looming as a result of one template invoking another. The parser and caching should effectively take care of that, and we can always move the common logic to Lua if necessary (I'd say preferably, but I'm not sure everyone here agrees with that) . ”

“ To wit, this text here is, by way of the terms displayed in the edit field, "irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL". What's missing is really the "Unless otherwise specified" part to make it clear that public domain works have not magically become subject to new copyright by virtue of us transcribing them. I also agree with Peteforsyth insofar as it being worthwhile to address the issue. It is a minor issue, but not an entirely insignificant one. ”

“ Is there a good place to point academics who want to ga-naar-Wikipedia? I'm thinking of a how-to for people unfamiliar with wiki authoring who want to, say, post a post-print to Wikisource. Our metadata could make that last very findable, if properly formatted with something like Wikiversity:Template:Article info. ”

“ Most wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF) 18:38, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Image display issue with pdf files A new problem has come up with pdf files, which was not there earlier. Ocr-ed pdfs from Internet Archive, or those created with ABBYY FineReader has display problems in Commons, as we already know. But now, pdf files from HathiTrust and Google Books (i.e., books digitised by Google) have display problem in Commons/Wikisource with images, but not with text. Example from Google Books: https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gd92. ”

“ Secondly, books from Google Books can be transferred directly to Commons using url2commons, e.g. this file. Hrishikes (talk) 02:02, 24 January 2019 (UTC) and you should change to c:Template:Book which has the right metadata fields. information template is limited. Slowking4 ‽ SvG's revenge 13:58, 27 January 2019 (UTC) Is there a limit in usage of Google Drive OCR in case one would like to automate the task?— Mpaa (talk) 20:26, 24 January 2019 (UTC) Yes, some limit is there, but usually that limit is difficult to reach. The OCR4wikisource tool uses Google Drive OCR for automating the task. ”

“ I would really appreciate if someone could make the backend logic in Lua (or solve the following issue) . Linter on {{lang}} gives an error due to fact that the {{#ifeq:{{{inline|yes}}}|yes|tag as the closing ">" arrives only later. It is nothing that generates errors when used or functional issues but it is annoying as it might give such impression. Thanks.— Mpaa (talk) 21:20, 20 January 2019 (UTC) @Mpaa: Where are you seeing this linter error? --Xover (talk) 09:33, 21 January 2019 (UTC) On the template page itself. ”

“ I'm not seeing it anywhere on Template:lang, nor when I preview an edit to it. --Xover (talk) 20:36, 22 January 2019 (UTC) You need to enable the linter checker gadget.— Mpaa (talk) 20:53, 22 January 2019 (UTC) In terms of terminology, a "Gadget" is something you can go enable in the preferences with a simple checkbox. Based on a little detective work, what you're using is the "user script" w:User:PerfektesChaos/js/lintHint with a little custom configuration (see the "Configuration by JavaScript" section and enable all namespaces) . ”

“ You mean like these? The religious and masonic symbolism of stones Freemasonry: its outward and visible signs Knight Templar Masonry: being the Pilgrim Degree and The Order of the Temple of Jerusalem according to the Codex of Canongate Kilwinning Some deeper aspects of masonic symbolism Cabul, or Christian symbolism in freemasonry An encyclopedic outline of masonic, hermetic, cabbalistic and rosicrucian symbolical philosophy. ”

“ Better have the discussion at the template talk page maybe. I posted here the news for visibility.— Mpaa (talk) 21:52, 14 January 2019 (UTC) It might be simpler to have two templates, like we have for all other similar situations: {lang} for inline (span) and {lang block} for (div) . This way the template won't require an extra parameter or template burden in lengthy documents. This is what we already do with {{smaller}} and {{smaller block}}, for example. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC) Someone in previous thread preferred one single template. ”

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“ Books aren't "uploaded" to Wikisource. Books this old, which are in public domain in their home country, are uploaded to Commons. And no, the watermarks cannot be stripped from the images. However, a Wikisource copy built from this scan would not transcribe the watermarks. --16:50, 2 January 2019 (UTC) Thanks for the info! --Level C (talk) 23:49, 22 January 2019 (UTC) ok here you go, i will fix up the index tomorrow. c:File:Pictures In Rhyme.djvu; Index:Pictures In Rhyme.djvu. -- user:slowking4 16:01, 17 January 2019 (UTC) Thank you for your work. This is awesome. ”

“ Since the bad scan has very little proofreading done so far, I would just import the better scan and start working on it. Make sure to coordinate with User:Wikilover90 who started that transcription project. You can put the bad index on WS:PD when it's fully abandoned in favour of the better scan. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 14:02, 27 January 2019 (UTC) Agreed. And in case anybody reading this discussion is unaware, I highly recommend the IAupload tool for importing Internet Archive texts. ”

“ Right- Thats what I was thinking as well, Do you happen to have a list of Index pages that uses paranthesis inside a tag? Would it be possible to generate one? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:46, 27 January 2019 (UTC) It's still broken - The_Return_of_Sherlock_Holmes,_1905_edition/Chapter_1 it picks up the Img tag for Djvu page 21, and the blank for page 22, and then fails to pick up the number for page 23. ”

“ The license tag makes the statement below redundant. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 09:41, 30 January 2019 (UTC) I strongly disagree with this. There is lots of meta text in mainspace: headers, notes in headers, license tags, banner text, interface text, &c all of which is CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 23:56, 1 February 2019 (UTC) A lot of that is too short to attract a copyright anyway. "This work was published before January 1, 1924, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago." is not at all copyrightable. ”

“ On it —Beleg Tâl (talk) 16:05, 17 January 2019 (UTC) @ShakespeareFan00: commons:Category:The History of Ink (1860) . Will do the rest within the next few days. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:08, 17 January 2019 (UTC) 50% scan-backed At some point in the past few days we have quietly reached 50% of our mainspace pages transcluded from proofread scans. This has been achieved through a combination of adding new works via the ProofreadPage process and finding scans to backup works that we have acquired through other means over the years. ”