“ We had one user with ~15k DNB stub articles in their user space, all of which showed up on Special:WantedTemplates (which only shows the first 5k pages) . Userspace pages also regularly show up in searches when we're looking for, say, a CSS class and where it's used; trying to migrate from an old template to a new one (or migrating its arguments from one style to another, or...) . It's that sort of thing: noise that makes other maintenance tasks harder or masks real problems. ”

“ The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar) . Future changes
Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. ”

“ Right now, Template:Disambiguation produces a header with different text depending on whether it's used in mainspace or the Author namespace. (Specifically, the magic appears to happen in Template:Disambiguation/info.) Main: "This is a disambiguation page. It lists works that share the same title." Author: "This is a disambiguation page. It lists authors that share the same name." In this situation, I would like it to instead read something like, "This is a disambiguation page. It lists works and authors that share the same name." The exact phrasing isn't so important ”

“ Often it is possible to filter. Sometimes it is not. For example on Special:WantedTemplates and similar. It is also one more thing to juggle in sometimes quite complicated searches. e.g. in stuff like this. And for some things you can't filter on namespace because a template or CSS class might be in use on the user's user page itself, or on pages in other users' userspace, and needs to be migrated. ”

“ Disambiguating editions by the same author Unfortunately, we do not have clear naming policy, only a very old discussion of a couple of users from 2010, which did not result in any change to the very vague Wikisource:Naming conventions. Most of the points raised in that discussion make sense, with one exception. If we disambiguate more works by different authors, the authors' names are quite logically chosen for disambiguation. If it is not enough, we add year of publication. ”

“ The old "Book Creator" stuff saves pages that are essentially an AuxTOC/portal with a non-standard and broken header. A Book Creator "book" looks like this:
They don't update in any meaningful sense. So, for example, when we delete the subpage redirects for the chapters in the above example, the "book" will be completely broken (just a list of redlinks) . The links in that header template also do not work, not even the "Order Printed Book" one, with the exception of the link to the Book Creator (which lets you produce more broken "books" and confuse users and visitors) . ”

“ Adjustment to Template:PD-US system to accommodate film transcriptions With normal (textual) works, we always go on the death date of the usually one (or sometimes more) writers of that work, and we insert the death year of that person into the PD-US template. That system is fairly straightforward. But with films, the copyright logic abroad gets a little weirder than that. ”

“ Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket. You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. ”

“ Of course their is no perfection, however, this has caused least problems.We have redirects in place from the shorter versions, and you can use whichever variation you wish in the main namespace. We cannot write our rules for one or two authors with very unique names, that sort of approach just leads to every person arguing that every author that they have is a special case, and we simply got sick of that argument years ago. ”

“ Very rarely do they directly cause any problems on their own. Xover (talk) 22:37, 15 January 2023 (UTC) Support, I don't see any problem with this approach. Although I do have a question (as someone who doesn't go around looking for pages with semantic errors or bugs) : When looking for such linting errors/CSS errors, etc., is it not possible to filter outside of the User namespace for these? I think it would be very rare you'd need to fix a random userspace page in this way, since they generally shouldn't be edited unless they're your own user page per the wiki commandments. ”

“ This page lists works that share the title Sue Me. For the author named Sue Mee, see... But then, what do we do with cases like Jane Austen, where there's only one work? If the mainspace page exists only to disambiguate works, not people, it doesn't need to exist, because we only have one work by that name! ”

“ They all survive. We update their edits, and we don't berate. It isn't a problem, it is just another bit maintenance to our style.Also as our notability perspective differs, we will often have grandfather / father / son authors so who will you give precedence? ”

“ TOC are an intermediate task, requiring knowledge of wikicode, and tables. and old template bloat solutions hang around (we should put a big warning template on it) . there are lots of completed works to copy the TOC from. it’s no harder than choosing the right license on commons. -- ( ( ( S ) ) ) ‽ digitaleffie's ghost 14:26, 18 January 2023 (UTC) I have done quite many ToC on Wikisource, mostly in French. ”

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“ Support Looks good to me; I've edited the template so it doesn't itself show up in Category:Uses of blanked userspace page template in incorrect namespaces. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 02:39, 16 January 2023 (UTC) comments User pages should not be needing to come to WS:PD unless it is truly necessary.
At the same time user pages should not be needing us to edit them to get around issues of css code issues, and the like. If we are fussing that stuff, we are fussing the wrong stuff. ”

“ The image is not floating at all. What I was aiming at is something like this, i. e. the picture placed and floating in the middle of the paragraph, with the lines above and below continuing dynamically, only the picture would be centered and its caption left-aligned. ”

“ The more people chime in (even with "don't care") the better we can gauge what the community's sentiment is for this. Xover (talk) 20:30, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
Pinging @ShakespeareFan00 and @PseudoSkull, who have recently participated in discussions on this issue. I have also added a watchlist notice pointing to this discussion in an attempt to better gauge what the community thinks about this. Xover (talk) 20:43, 15 January 2023 (UTC) It's gentler than deletion and does not alter the actual content of the page, so if there is a genuine need for it then I think it's an acceptable solution. ”

“ Those who ask deserve polite answers. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 23:11, 20 January 2023 (UTC) Poll regarding January 2023 Wikisource Community meeting Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
We will be organizing the January 2023 Wikisource Community meeting in the last week of January and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below:
https://wudele.toolforge.org/5tauCFqk8NJQBcBv
Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda. ”

“ Does anyone have any faster way to move them without conflicts? If not, I will manually move them starting from Page:US Code Section 1.pdf/28 → Page:US Code Section 1.pdf/32.--Jusjih (talk) 19:26, 5 February 2023 (UTC) Done all of these moves from Page:US Code Section 1.pdf/28 → Page:US Code Section 1.pdf/32 to Page:US Code Section 1.pdf/4 → Page:US Code Section 1.pdf/6 without redirects. Any other administrator may also do this kind of sensitive page moves by suppressing redirects. ”

“ French wikisource is better here, because they have down selected preferred solutions, English hangs on to the old failed templates past their due date. -- ( ( ( S ) ) ) ‽ digitaleffie's ghost 17:37, 19 January 2023 (UTC) Michael Strogoff Hi, This work needs to be moved to a new page, and a disambiguation to be made for other editions, i.e. Index:Works of Jules Verne - Parke - Vol 8.djvu and the 1927 edition illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. ”