User talk:PiRSquared17

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Hello, PiRSquared17, and welcome to Wikisource! Thank you for joining the project. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 02:32, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your notification of the user's spam. I've blocked him for a while. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 02:32, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome! :) PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:29, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

The mysterious Header toggle button

When proofreading in the Page: namespace and you have your toolbar turned on in "my preferences" (Show edit toolbar (requires JavaScript)), then you will see the button in your toolbar, and clicking it toggles the header/footer on and off. In this space we put the relevant components for top and bottoms of pages, usually by use of the template {{RunningHeader}}, so for example {{RunningHeader|Stanhope|3|Stanhope}} produces

Personally, I have my header/footer set to open in the Page: namespace and I achieved this by activating that option in my preferences (Show header and footer fields when editing in the Page namespace.) — billinghurst sDrewth 04:08, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for this hint. PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:08, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Recent activity

You've had an account here for quite some time, but for most of that time have done little. Now, you're helping to complete our Proofread of the Month at a furious pace and learning the ropes rapidly. What happened to bring on this change, and how can we make the best use of your enthusiasm here? --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:52, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

I thought contributing to Wikisource would be interesting, and I believe I could contribute something. I previously have edited here and on la.ws, but to a much lesser extent. I have read some of the help pages, but I'm still confused about a few parts of the process here. Could you suggest some other texts to proofread (preferably something much shorter than Lake Ngami)? Could you give me some tips? PiRSquared17 (talk) 15:07, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

I started by working on author pages, but didn't really get into things until I did a PotM that interested me, much like you have. That one was actually more challenging in terms of formatting, but I learned a lot quickly as a result.

Ways you could choose to continue here: (1) Some people validate the proofreading of others. This requires attention to spelling, spacing, punctuation, and formatting, and requires that you compare against the source, but does not usually require knowing a lot of coding, templates, or other stuff. (2) Stick with PotM for a while. This group proofreading effort changes each month and so stays fresh. You don't have to work on the whole volume or know how to do it all because there are other people working with you. (3) Look for a work or subject in which you have a passionate interst. Determine (a) whether we are missing a key work you'd like to do, or (b) whether we need a better (sourced) version of a work we already have. If you find a work that does not have a source file, you can go looking on the internet for one yourself, or post a request if you really want to work on something.

I've done a little of all three, and I keep a list of projects on my user page that I might want to work on. The list is much longer than I'm likely to complete any time soon, but it means I have an accumulation of things I can work on when I desire a project.

As far as finding something short, that's certainly possible, but keep in mind that a work that has a source file loaded can always be worked on by another person, and likewise there are projects people have started that need someone to complete them. You might look through the piles of unfinished transcription projects for something you'd like to tackle. I've sometimes just browsed to see what caught me eye there. And time is not an issue for the community. Some projects have languished for several years, so if you find one you want to work on, then you can do it as you find time. No one will complain about progress on an otherwise idle project. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:55, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Depending on your interests, I've just discovered that Index:Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1894 Burt.djvu is still not fully proofread, although the illustrations appear to be in place. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:36, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Automated import of openly licensed scholarly articles

Hello PiRSquared17,

We are putting together a proposal about the automated import of openly licensed scholarly articles, and since you are an active Wikisourceror, we'd appreciate yourcomments on the Scriptorium. For convenience, I'm copying our proposal here:

The idea of systematically importing openly licensed scholarly articles into Wikisource has popped up from time to time. For instance, it formed the core of WikiProject Academic Papers and is mentioned in the Wikisource vision. However, the Wikiproject relied on human power, never reached its full potential, and eventually became inactive. The vision has yet to materialise.

We plan to bridge the gap through automation. We are a subset of WikiProject Open Access (user:Daniel Mietchen, user:Maximilanklein, user:MattSenate), and we have funding from the Open Society Foundations via Wikimedia Deutschland to demo suitable workflows at Wikimania (see project page).

Specifically, we plan to import Open Access journal articles into Wikisource when they are cited on Wikipedia. The import would be performed by a group of bots intended to make reference handling more interoperable across Wikimedia sites. Their main tasks are:

• (on Wikipedia) signalling which references are openly licensed, and link them to the full text on Wikisource, the media on Commons and the metadata on Wikidata;
• (on Commons) importing images and other media associated with the source article;
• (on Wikisource) importing the full text of the source article and embedding the media in there;
• (on Wikidata) handling the metadata associated with the source article, and signalling that the full text is on Wikisource and the media on Commons.

These Open Access imports on Wikisource will be linked to and from other Wikimedia sister sites. Our first priority though will be linking from English Wikipedia, focusing on the most cited Open Access papers, and the top-100 medical articles.

In order to move forward with this, we need

• General community approval
• Community feedback on workflows and scrutiny on our test imports in specific.
• Bot permission. For more technical information read our bot spec on Github.

Maximilianklein (talk) 18:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)