“ I theorized that the wiki software might not like PDF cover images that are in the JPEG 2000 format and that might affect things, so I recreated the PDF once again, this time with JPEG front and back covers. Now the PDF only contains JPEG and JBIG2 pages, no JP2 at all. Uploading this v3 version fixed the Commons thumbnail and 0x0 resolution. However, the file's Wikisource page still doesn't display a thumbnail and states the file's resolution is 0x0 (see the Dimensions column in File history section) . Purging this page has no effect, and the proofreading issue still remains. ”

“ I am personally of the strong and unwavering opinion that we should kill it with fire deprecate and delete this template, but until the community comes to its senses on that point I merely beg of you, and everyone else reading, please do not use this template! It is no good, very bad, kicks puppies, and snatches little old ladies purses. It is also so fragile and prone to breaking that even when it doesn't bomb out with a transclusion error, it just kinda sorta looks like it works when everything is at default settings. ”

“ I have no idea if inserting dummy tags at the top of each page of footnotes (just like the main text) , wrapped in tags would cure it. The fact that it didn’t work was the reason I stopped proofreading the work, and moved on to something else. I would not object if someone wanted to convert the work to the ‘footnotes in page namespace’ model that is the usual method on WS. After all, once transcluded, the result in main namespace will be the same. Yes, it makes proofreading/validating a pain (do the endnotes first?) , but it will work. ”

“ I have just checked what has been done for "the Highest Stage of Capitalism", and it appears that not much has been completed, and that Wikisource may not have a scan (although I expect they would be easy enough to find, as I saw plenty when trying to find a scan for the Last Stage of Capitalism, which I couldn't, bar the one Wikisource has) . ”

“ So Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/April 2022 is essentially trying to "transclude" 24k pages. I can't even edit that page because all the dependency checking hits a hard database timeout after 60 seconds. It's entirely possible that the stats wonkiness has a more banal explanation (a bot that didn't run when the month rolled over, a syntax error in a config or data file somewhere, etc.) ”

“ That being said, I grabbed the original scan images from IA and built a DjVu file from them: Index:Through Finland in Carts (1897) .djvu. DjVu is designed specifically for our use case (which PDF really isn't) and as a side-effect MediaWiki actually tends to do a better job extracting the hidden text layer. I haven't checked it page-by-page, but from the superficial checks I could do the result looks to be functional. If you like we can move the existing pages over from the PDF and you can continue based on the DjVu. ”

“ Ten years ago, being ignorant of OCR, I raised this issue in the Internet Archive Forum, when I started editing on French Wikipedia. The French text layer was accurately and cleanly scanned +90% of the time, which included the standard 26 characters. It is then I found out that there are different software for languages scanned. My next question, was why bother with an English version? English text was always interspersed with text from other languages of the Latin family, but the basic 26 characters were the same. ”

“ We are all volunteers and work on what pleases the author of our own story. Links and other such affordances are strictly optional, so as long as the actual text of the notes has been proofread you can call yourself done with the best of consciences. If someone cares enough about the work to take on the tedious bits, such links can perfectly well be added after the fact and anyone is free to do so. ”

“ Module:String defines its own function (_getParameters) to preprocess the arguments in order to extract unnamed parameters. For most use cases this is neither needed nor particularly sensible to do: almost all modules will be invoked from a wrapper template, and that wrapper template can make sure to put unnamed template parameters into a named parameter when it invokes the module. And if you're using #invoke directly then that awkward syntax is a far bigger issue than having to use named parameters. Xover (talk) 12:54, 20 April 2022 (UTC) Oops, that makes sense. ”

“ If you remove the zero-width space from the mobile rendering, Chrome renders the page with the space. It looks like this space is somehow overriding the fact that "moment" has a space after it before the first <span/>. Anybody know why the mobile skin puts this zero-width space there? — Dcsohl (talk)
(contribs) 13:39, 1 April 2022 (UTC) It doesn't; it's the desktop site that runs a default gadget that removes the zero-width space (which in itself is a bug, btw, and breaks other stuff) . ”

“ Regarding block centering, that is something we usually handle at transclusion, and typically by using the dynamic layout system; in practice by adding {{default layout|Layout 2}} to the page where the text is transcluded (e.g. just after the {{header}} template on Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen/Chapter 1, and repeat for the main page and all sub-pages) . ”

“ For the choice between using the auto-generated header or the template, the auto-generated header is only intended to be used for the simplest of works. As soon as there is any complexity, then use the {{header}} template. There is a gadget that helps with prefilling some of the fields at the time of creating the subpage (it's probably too late for this work) . Beeswaxcandle (talk) 23:33, 30 April 2022 (UTC) Index:Orley Farm (Serial Volume 19) .pdf Something seems to be wrong with the pdf file used for this index. Page images do not appear when editing or creating a page. ”

“ Xover (talk) 16:40, 3 April 2022 (UTC) Xover, Justin (koavf) , John Maynard Friedman (pinging for interest in copyright) : Two judges have opined on the question of whether standards, incorporated by reference into law, enter the public domain. Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York, after a long discussion, determined that such standards are in the public domain. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the District of Columbia summarily dismissed the claim that the works entered the public domain, without discussing the UpCodes case or any caselaw. ”

“ Personally, I don't usually check the interwiki links, so having the link in the header makes for a noticeable improvement, were I interested in the original text (which I cannot read) . So in that sense, the extra effort is worth it. However, as for other users, I can only presume. TeysaKarlov (talk) 22:03, 30 April 2022 (UTC) In respect of the first question, it should be transcluded in printed page order as that is the sequence in which the author/publisher intended. The TOC is purely a navigational aid for those who want to find a particular poem. ”

“ Finding a link to an individual raw image is easy, but as each URL is given a signature it seems like a heavy task to automate downloading all the images in a given work. E.g., see this URL to a single image: https://books.google.com/books/content?id=7UIVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA15&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&bul=1&sig=ACfU3U2seMlongO9_FMW3DvmVRF-dGxtcA&w=1025 All these parameters are fine, and can be found in the HTML source, except for sig=ACfU3U2seMlongO9_FMW3DvmVRF-dGxtcA—I don't know how one would generate that. ”

“ Indeed {{blockquote}} is the correct template here as it has the correct semantics. {{quote}} is also basically the same thing, and as correct. If one did want to adjust the right margin, you can do so with index CSS like:
.wst-blockquote { margin-right: 0; } {{quote}} also had a direct CSS option, but IMO index CSS is better if you can for this kind of thing to maintain consistency in a work. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 20:52, 27 February 2022 (UTC) Help moving/renaming an article Greetings and felicitations. ”

“ I didn't really do much for the first map, I just found a high-resolution scan of the original map from the NYPL and uploaded it to Commons. I really don't think it makes much sense to spend hours trying to clean up a scan of a photo of a map. I don't really have any plans for the rest as I'm busy irl for a little while. Happy New Years! Languageseeker (talk) 12:47, 3 January 2022 (UTC) @Languageseeker: This image is actually in the IIIF file format; OpenSeadragon is a web viewer for IIIF images and other, similarly zoomable image formats. ”

“ PDF is definitely much more widespread. For this reason I suggest keeping both PDF and DjVu scans in Commons and using the DjVu scan only for transcription purposes here in Wikisource. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 15:14, 16 January 2022 (UTC) @Veikk0.ma: -- Your pdf is visible on Wikisource in my computer. So this is probably a cache issue, you can try a different browser. Hrishikes (talk) 16:45, 8 February 2022 (UTC) Template Help I'm trying to create a template to indicate joining characters used in manuscript. ”

“ Languageseeker (talk) 03:50, 30 January 2022 (UTC) They are currently three different early translations of this work that I know of that have different subtitles: The scan-backed version by Stephenson under the subtitle "Last Stage of Capitalism" The 1924 translation by John Thadeus Kozlowski under the subtitle "Latest Stage in the Development of Capitalism" The Tridon translation under the subtitle "the Final Stage of Capitalism" (external scan) The subtitle "The Highest Stage" seems to have appeared with the 1933 edition in the Little Lenin Library. ”

“ He was a bulwark to his people, or people, (or really any variation thereof which best fits with Wikisource policies) be acceptable? If need be something could also be added to the header notes when transcluding to say that this has been done. At the very least, it would avoid forcing line breaks. TeysaKarlov (talk) 05:11, 16 March 2022 (UTC) The use of tooltips should be kept to a minimum as they don't behave at all well on e-Readers and are impossible on Braille readers. With the available alternatives, I'm not sure that using tooltips in this way is a good thing. ”

“ Tested in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Could the OSD element be stretching outside the div.prp-page-image? A z-index issue perhaps? Or could it somehow be related to showing disabled versions of these to non-logged-in users?
@Maile66: What web browser are you using? Xover (talk) 12:28, 6 January 2022 (UTC) @Inductiveload: You nailed it. It's the zoom that does it. On the the other hand, I have to zoom down to such small size (for my vision) that it's too difficult to view and too much trouble to try and edit that way. ”

“ They look different both here and in the Map for me. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:24, 31 January 2022 (UTC) @EncycloPetey: Thanks for the input, but it also depends on the system font, browser configuration and font selection. I switched to Google Chrome which defaulted to the Linux Mint system font of Ubuntu and Monospace Regular. In this case the characters were displayed properly. Then, installed the Advanced fonts extension and set it to Noto Sans, Noto Serif, and Noto Mono, to conform with the Firefox font configuration and the character was misprinted again. ”

“ In the info message, I'm invoking the module like so: {{#invoke:User contrib|info_message|n = {{{1|}}}|username = {{urlencode:{{{2|{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}}}} ... and this is being passed along as e.g. {{urlencode:CalendulaAsteraceae}}. What I want it to do is apply the urlencode before invoking the module. How do I do this? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:30, 21 April 2022 (UTC) Do it in Lua. You should generally do nothing in template code except pass arguments. Any processing is best done in Lua. ”

“ How to create a box? I need help with this page:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Federalist_ (1818) .djvu/6 The L.S. in a box needs to be recreated. It seems to be a placemark for a seal, like this example that looks like ours and mentions a seal. I don't know how to create it. Who is a good coder? Please ping me. -- Valjean (talk) 20:20, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
@Valjean: If you want to preserve the pictorial elements of the box, then it would be best to use an image in a {{Dropinitial}} template. ”

“ An Index name here always matches the name of the file. So, to correct an Index name, the file needs to be moved on Commons to the correct name. Then we can move the Index here to match. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:37, 4 March 2022 (UTC) Hey, many thanks I'll work on that. I need to move it to the correct name on Commons. Thanks again. Daytrivia (talk) 10:24, 4 March 2022 (UTC) Index:The history of Witchcraft and demonology.djvu reference formatting In proofreading the third chapter of this book myself, I followed the formatting for references used in the first two chapters. ”

“ This is one of the main reasons why some of us have long stopped using poem tags and changed to using
at the end of each line with {{gap}} for indenting, per H:POEM. There is no way around this problem using poem tags only. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC) Thanks for your thoughts. I have left the last line of Page:Pocahontas, and Other Poems.djvu/59 out of the poem format and this seems to have done the trick. ”

“ Index:Murder on the Links - 1985.djvu I have a request to add an image for the Bantam Books logo for the Murder on the Links book.
I notice that the licensing page for the book contains Main content (published 1925) : {{PD/US|deathyear=1976}} and Cover image and any other content: {{PD-US-no-notice-post-1977}} but there is also a summary page telling not to copy to commons. I do not find any pre-existing Bantam Books logo on commons that I could use, so I am wondering if the logo is still protected by copyright or am I allowed to create a image of the logo and upload it to Wikisource only? ”

“ The method you're exploring doesn't really tie the numbers to the text; if the user is using a wide screen (like an e-reader on a landscape tablet) or a very narrow screen (like a phone) , they'll end up in the wrong places. Have you considered using {{right sidenote}}, such as you see at Page:The Solar System - Six Lectures - Lowell.djvu/19? — Dcsohl (talk)
(contribs) 12:59, 17 March 2022 (UTC) @Beeswaxcandle ”