User:Xover

I currently have limited and unpredictable time for on-wiki participation, and this will be the case for the foreseeable future. I will get email notification for messages left on my talk page and will try to follow up on such when circumstances permit, but regular pings and notifications are unlikely to be noticed any time soon.

Maintenance

User request categories

Maintenance categories that should be empty

Maintenance categories that need looking into closer

Templates

Need to investigate migrating all uses of Help:Subpages header templates
What to do with {{wikipediaref}}, and its 2k+ transclusions (many of which are in error)
Merge {{redact2}} to {{redact}}?
Flesh out Template:Aligned box
Trawl through Special:UnusedTemplates
Replace {{compare}} with something sensible.
{{right block}} vs {{block right}}
{{ordered list}} needs a page-crossing /s and /e variant
Module:Author needs support for work period (start) (P2031) and work period (end) (P2032)
Bluelink {{paired template}}
The little constellation of templates and modules around {{Lalis}} needs to be… done something about.
Template:3cfr can probably be substed and deleted.
Is {{collapsible list}} still needed for anything?
Everything using {{poem-on}} (and {{poem-off}}) needs to be migrated away (asap)
{{heavily used template}} needs to be migrated to the enwp version (it's currently a local hack of the commons version)
{{Template category}} needs modernising, standardising, and rethinking
Make MediaWiki:Proofreadpage header template support spitting out just the toc (no {{header}}) so you can store an AuxTOC in the index page.
Obsolete {{Eras}}
Obsolete {{ShowTransclude}}
Figure out what to do with {{MathForm1}} and {{MathForm2}}
{{errata}}, cf. Page:Dombey and Son.djvu/139, produces non-compliant WS:ANN.

Redundancies

{{brace}}, {{brace2}}, {{brace3}}

Gadgets

Site CSS/JS

Keep grinding away at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Site.css/todo

To review and remove

Future

Portal:The Yale Shakespeare
Maurice Morgann. An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff (1777) (transcription project)
A. C. Bradley. Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909) (external scan)
Edward Dowden. Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1880). (external scan)
Stopford Brooke. On Ten Plays of Shakespeare (1905) 3rd impression 1906 (external scan)
Stopford Brooke. Ten More Plays of Shakespeare (1913) (external scan)
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Process backlog in Category:Translations without translator information specified
Figure out how to deal with Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book.
Match and Split The Phantom of the Opera from this scan
Upload Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (1923) (external scan)
- To scan-back Derelict (Allison) and Billy Bones's Fancy
Upload The Fellowship Hymn-Book (1908) (external scan)
- To scan-back God Send Us Men (unsourced)
Index:A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto (1916).djvu
Index:Diplomacy and the Study of International Relations (1919).djvu
M&S or scan-back: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Special:Contributions/Notafly—Lots of cut&paste unformatted and unsourced; need to go through and do something about these.
Reboot WS:IGD? Or create something new? Are there enough interested people to warrant a separate venue?
Modernise The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:TOCright is a good list of works needing to be modernised and scan-backed
scan back The School for Scandal
File:Electra of Euripides (Murray) Chart I.png and File:Electra of Euripides (Murray) Chart II.png should be converted to {{tree chart}}
File:Ellis Yeats Blake table before page 8.jpg—convert to table markup
File:Examples of indicators for assessing the critical nature of the financial system’s parts.jpg—convert to table markup
File:The tale of two travellers.djvu should be used to scan-back this page, if it is possible to do so (there were apparently concerns raised over the feasibility of using the file, due to its poor quality);
Index:Grimm's Household Tales, vol.1.djvu (+vol. 2) needs to be completed
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Move to portal and clean up transcription: Lambda Papers
Check on the progress of The King's English (idx) cf. WS:PD#The King's English
Index:Richardson - 2835 Mayfair (1907).djvu might be fun
Figure out what to do with Leviathan (modern)
The Kingdom of God Is Within You (external scan)
Nibelungenlied (external scan)
Translation:Manshu Is this really a translation? It looks like it's edging over into original work.
Template:Wikipediaref is deprecated but still in wide use
Clean up The Salticidae (Spiders) of Panama (toc, auxtoc, link chapters not pagenums, templates vs. raw html, etc.)
The Betrothal needs subpage cleanup and scan-backing
The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan: clean up, standard subpage scheme, delete concatenated version, look for source
Oliver Twist needs validation and some ads proofread. Plates need some love too.
Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Str_ needs to be cleaned out
Template:asbox should not exist
Template:Help-stub, Template:Process-stub, Template:Guideline-stub, Template:Essay-stub, Template:Info-stub, Template:General-stub need to go
Experimental researches in electricity
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism—migrate to scan, fix up monster toc; empty out Category:A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Attack Special:PagesWithoutScans in some structured way. Add a maint cat so we can progress them stage by stage? No scan -> ext scan linked -> ssl -> tagged with migrate to -> matched and split -> proofread? Too many to do solo so need to engage community on the project.
Index:With Lawrence in Arabia (1924).djvu (to proofread)
Figure out the heck is going on with Author:Peter John Bolton. Have these been previously published, or are they original compilations?
Follow up on The Writings of Carl Schurz (vs. Speeches, correspondence and political papers of Carl Schurz) in light of WS:PD discussion. Also apparently affects Summer on the Lakes in some way.
Look into {{second-hand}} and {{Project Gutenberg}} and make them more usable (in mainspace, in particular).
Figure out what to do about File:Weasel 1.ogg, File:Weasel 2a.ogg, File:Weasel 2b.ogg, File:Weasel 3a.ogg, and their associated transcripts. They are missing copyright / licensing information, are not previously published (allegedly uploaded by someone on the mission, so neutrality was never in the cards), are edited (to avoid embarrassing the persons featured engaging in "locker room talk"), of unknown provenance (where the heck did these radio/cockpit recordings end up in the hands of the uploader?), and the transcriptions are heavily annotated.
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (Creasy)—Move dab to main title, consolidate volumes, fix page names, split into chapter subpages
Nice overview of Howard copyright. Need to find some better place than here to stash it for future reference since we have about a million texts from Howard.
- Also: this
- And: this
Figure out a good way to do the side-by-side on The Apocryphal New Testament (1924)/Passion Gospels/The Gospel of Nicodemus, probably using a full-bleed Grid layout (which, yes, will require rewriting pagenumbers.js, sigh)
Match&Split A Latin Dictionary?
Check back in on Translation:On the Self-governing Special Administrative Territory of Transcarpathia, 1992 (draft), cf. WS:PD#Undelete The Law of Ukraine: On the Self-governing Special Administrative Territory of Transcarpathia, 1992 (draft)
All categorized pages with no lowercase letters in title, excluding court citation redirects—Crap titles that need to be fixed (and probably some of it is crap content too)
diff: How can Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata, and Wikisource walk hand in hand?
Find some approach to tackling the backlog in https://phetools.toolforge.org/not_transcluded/en.html
Find scans for Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818) and other texts from the same source.
Guy de Maupassant
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail
Eugène Sue
Organon (Owen) needs some serious cleanup and modernisation
The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'—out-of-policy annotation
The Annotated Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde—out-of-policy annotation
Figure out what to do about the works linked on Author:James Scott (1885-1938)
Modernize Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782)
Grimm's Household Tales
Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle (1818)/Maintenance of the Peace of Europe—figure out what the heck this is
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night is a… project.
The Wood Beyond the World has a subpage structure based on the LibriVox sound file division of chapters (three chapters to a part).
Camera Craft?
Index:Work (1873).djvu
Research copyright status of File:MU KPB 033 Rubiat of Omar Rayyam.pdf and File:MU KPB 034 Parsifal.pdf. Cf. deletion discussion here (somewhat prematurely closed) and undeletion request on Commons. The crux is whether they were first or simultaneously published in the US, and if so they go back to Commons. If not they probably can't stay here either.
File:The Mysteries of Paris (1843).djvu
To clean out: User:MGA73/Sandbox
Help:Adding images really needs improvement.
Go through Category:Exclude in print (27) to clean up the remnants of the old book creator
{{locus sigilli}} needs options for stroke and font weight, since it starts looking comical at larger sizes
Have a look at Author:Aphra Behn, and at the state of female authors in general on the project. Especially the Pre-1950 Utopias and Science Fiction by Women. Could we organise something that could interest RED etc. and recruit from enWP?
Explore whether proofreading Camera Craft magazine is feasible. Could it be a trial balloon for a new standard(ish) way to do periodicals?
Import Internet Archive identifier: brookesromeusjul00broo
File:Ellis Yeats Blake table before page 8.jpg needs to be incorporated into a scan, and it should be transcribed as a table for presentation. It's also not p. 8; it seems to appear in the prolegomena, after the last half-title but before p. 3 (the opening of the foreword).
Investigate Eugène Sue, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Maurice Leblanc, and related authors.
Palmerin of England, cf. Internet Archive identifier: cu31924027725237
Wetter New York cf. americanmagazin16unkngoog Internet Archive identifier: americanmagazin16unkngoog
Ivanhoe (unsourced) and Kenilworth (Scott)
Follow up on User:MGA73/Sandbox
Rename File:Life·of·Seddon•James·Drummond•1907.pdf and associate artefacts to get rid of the nonsense characters

In progress

To proofread

To validate

Technical notes

Lua console debugging

=p.main(mw.getCurrentFrame():newChild{title = "Template:Templatename", args = {"first unnamed arg", "second arg", "third arg"}})

Relevant discussions to reference

WS:S#Main namespace works; portal works and tendency to encyclopaedic components or listings (2019) – Portal: vs. Author: vs mainspace

My subpages and sandboxes

Historical discussions

WS:CV#27 December 2009 Commentary by John Yettaw—On GFDL, TOS, and policy (2018)
WS:S#Expand scope of Author namespace—On usage of namespaces, Portal vs. mainspace, etc. (2010)
WS:S#Inclusion of reference data on Wikisource—On (non-)inclusion of reference data.
RFC: Annotations and derivative works

Technical todos

Rethink {{img float}}, cf. Page:Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1888).djvu/472.
See if the early-2022 workshops on meta:Small wiki toolkits/Workshops has anything interesting.

Copyright related references

WS:CV#General interest (not about a specific file)