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Note to self (export)

(pastes from conversation)

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Parsing_wikitext
• http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Nicholas_%28d.1124%29_%28DNB00%29&action=render
• then it uses the ws-noexport class to tidy the html from unneeded stuff; it was easier to use html as output, epub are html in zip file, and it exists many tool to convert html to other format

— billinghurst sDrewth 14:50, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

(notes)

• When building Tables of contents and Lists of Illustrations, the title components need to be included within the table |+ ... as otherwise they page break after the title before table, d'oh!
• asked Tpt about the attribution page, and how to edit, and to correct a typo
• epubreader (reasonable in browser app for FF)

TO DO — DNB footer initials

• Update docs Done
• Look to manage new, eg. DNB HMS-r
• Work on 1912, check completeness of 1901
• HWP duplicates and will need disambiguating Author:Hugh Wodehouse Pearse // Author:Herbert Woodfield Paul

Implementing Easier and More Efficient Metadata Tags on Wikisource

Hello, I just wanted to give you a brief update on the initiative to adopt the Schema metatags on Wikisource, I have talked to tpt and he is in support of it, and successfully made this microdata template to test the functionality of the use of microdata. Here is an example that I made that is a little closer to what this would look like in Wikisource.

If I brought this idea to an RFC, would you support its consensus? Is there any other information you would like to see in order to support it?

Maximilian.Klein.LRMI (talk) 19:36, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

ProofreadPage on FiWS

Our hard-at-work devs are making progress on a ProofreadPage bug that affects foreign language Wikisources, e.g. FiWS. They made a new bug report, number 47596, after they identified an underlying problem. Unfortunately, nobody is assigned to the bug, and progress is again stalled. There is some issue with Proofread page mixing up canonical and localized namespace names. Would you please take a look? Kindly, Heyzeuss (talk) 14:01, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Hiya. It shouldn't be affecting the local wiki at all in a "stopping work" sense. That bug is solely so language-imbeciles like me who cannot manage foreign language namespace can type Page: and Index: for your namespaces, etc., rather than Sivu, Keskustelu sivusta, Hakemisto and Keskustelu hakemistosta. My understanding of the bug is that it will effect all the WS wikis, so rather than them manually having to do it for each wiki, there will be an underlying component that has it, and the namespaces will be formally known by those for the language of the wiki. So if there is an issue with PrP at the wiki, it shouldn't be this. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:39, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Three things:

• PrP does not work as it once did. The pdf pages were a bit slow, but at least they would load up. Do you have any idea why they will not load anymore?
• Is it possible to correct the namespaces' canonical names manually, since the needed patch to PrP is not coming soon?
• Some of my work has been lost in the process of correcting namespace numbers. The index pages have been recreated, but the table of contents that I made, which took some time, is no longer there. Is there anyone who has both the expertise and the time to recover some of it, starting with index pages (1 & 2)? Heyzeuss (talk) 20:39, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

I am going to have to sit and ponder this. — billinghurst sDrewth 02:19, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

No worries. :) Heyzeuss (talk) 20:39, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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"it was right this way" Why? There is already the "he" interwiki on the documentation subpage. --DixonD (talk) 14:48, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

there is nothing wrong with <onlyinclude>, so it was right that way, and no specification for the change. — billinghurst sDrewth 15:11, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

In this particular case changing <onlyinclude> to <includeonly> or back doesn't change anything. The main intention was to remove duplicate "he" wiki. Should I comment every obvious edit in order for it not to be reverted? --DixonD (talk) 16:20, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Comments are always helpful, especially to semi-protected and widely-used templates. — billinghurst sDrewth 00:55, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Tech news — 2013, week 21

Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the English Wikipedia (with a Wikidata software update) on May 20. It will be updated on all other Wikipedia sites on May 22. [1] [2]
• A software update will perhaps result in temporary issues with images. Please report any problems you notice. [3]
• MediaWiki recognizes links in twelve new schemes. Users can now link to SSH, XMPP and Bitcoin directly from wikicode. [4]
• VisualEditor was added to all content namespaces on mediawiki.org on May 20. [5]
• A new extension ("TemplateData") was added to all Wikipedia sites on May 20. It will allow a future version of VisualEditor to edit templates. [6]
• New sites: Greek Wikivoyage and Venetian Wiktionary joined the Wikimedia family last week; the total number of project wikis is now 794. [7] [8]
• The logo of 18 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a third group of updates. [9]
• The UploadWizard on Commons now shows links to the old upload form in 55 languages (bug 33513). [10]

Future software changes

• The next version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf5) will be added to Wikimedia sites starting on May 27. [11]
• An updated version of Notifications, with new features and fewer bugs, will be added to the English Wikipedia on May 23. [12]
• The final version of the "single user login" (which allows people to use the same username on different Wikimedia wikis) is moved to August 2013. The software will automatically rename some usernames. [13]
• A new discussion system for MediaWiki, called "Flow", is under development. Wikimedia designers need your help to inform other users, test the prototype and discuss the interface. [14].
• The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring people to act as links between software developers and users for VisualEditor. [15]

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