“ Well, the issue here was perhaps more in regards using templates, specifically, for the quote marks. I don't think that's something we should encourage in the general case (with exceptions for special cases, including those where templates are the only reasonably efficient way for a given contributor to use curly quotes) . All templates clutter the text in edit mode to some degree, and here we have a multiple-character expansion (6:1) that will occur tens of times on each page. ”

“ To me, I think that we are past the point of just being an ugly text paste factory, and the work that it entails for others to curate and manage texts that are of unknown sources, and unable to be proofread further. ”

“ There's a lot you can do. One thing that is simple but requires a lot of care and patience is validating pages. You can find any page in Category:Proofread, ensure that the contents match the original, and mark it as validated. Adding a new text is a great thing to do as well but is more complicated. For someone entirely new to Wikisource, I'd recommend trying something small but valuable like validation as there are a lot of pages that could use it but don't require a lot of specialized skill to review. ”

“ This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year. Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years. ”

“ Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar) . Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. ”

“ In order to resolve these discussions it would be valuable with wider input from the community.
Copyright discussions require some understanding of copyright and our copyright policy, but often the sticking points are not intricate questions of law so one need not be an intellectual property lawyer to provide valuable input (most actual copyright questions are clear cut, so it's usually not these that linger) . For other discussions it is simply the low number of participants that makes determining a consensus challenging, and so any further input on the matter would be helpful. ”

“ Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. ”

“ Recruiting new contributors is one thing, but it's equally important not to lose existing contributors (by making it harder or more frustrating for them to contribute) . And in saying that I am merely stating general principles, not advocating any particular solution. ”

“ I think the bit I am confused by is "The text field may be blank or it might have been automatically filled with the text of that page". If uploading a PDF equivalent to e.g. this, how much of the formatting would be automatically extracted into wikitext? Evolution and evolvability (talk) 10:34, 29 October 2019 (UTC) @Evolution and evolvability: I'm not entirely sure that document is in scope for Wikisource (we primarily host previous published works) . But in any case, what you get out depends on what you put into the PDF file's text layer. ”

“ Anyone up for writing an option to allow someone to place a customized set of special characters in the main editing toolbar? On second thought, there is already a gadget for keyboard shortcuts for accented characters. Easy to add quotes to that. Levana Taylor (talk) 15:30, 15 October 2019 (UTC) Hmm, the gadget sounds good, so I have added it in my preferences now, but I cannot find anywhere whether there are any default shortcuts for some characters or how to add new shortcuts... Is there any documentation or help page about it? ”

“ There is an ongoing discussion about the hosting of files in the DjVu format on Wikimedia Commons over at "Commons:Village pump/Proposals#DjVu is dead. We should deprecate it for new uploads.", as this format is almost universally implemented on Wikisource I request input and feedback from the Wikisource community over there. It's best to engage in discussion before "voting" as this is not a referendum but a proposal. ”

“ Visual Editor, user experience design as mentioned at Wikimania,Wikisource:News/2019-09/Wikisource_at_Wikimania#Wikisource:_Challenges_and_Opportunities visual editor came to wikisource, but is not used because the menus are based on wikipedia. a UX refresh based on some user feedback would improve functionality. ”

“ Template:Ledger Template:Cl-act-p Template:Hymn/header AWK Language Programming
Note that while these are discussions that have lingered the longest without resolution, all discussions on these pages would benefit from wider input. Even if you just agree with everyone else on an obvious case, noting your agreement documents and makes obvious that fact in a way the absence of comments does not. The same reasoning applies for noting your dissent even if everyone else has voted otherwise: it is good to document that a decision was not unanimous. ”

“ Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:43, 16 October 2019 (UTC) Comment Which is why I generated the petscan queries ages ago, see User:Billinghurst#Petscan_queries (note that some need to be retweeked, as Magnus's petscan v.2 made his fields case sensitive for initial character (-> category and templates) , and I had hoped that he would fix that issue) and why I generally get around to transcluding these at the end of each months, though Southern Historical Society Papers is a massive job, and it is taking me forever to work through Index:Dictionary of Indian Biography.djvu. ”