User talk:Remember the dot

Hello, Remember the dot, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here. If you need help, see our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). You can discuss or ask questions from the community in general at the Scriptorium. The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page. —Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 21:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Peter Pan and Wendy

Our anon editor was roughly following the process at Wikisource:Possible copyright violations. I will go through and tag the pages with {{copyvio}} to follow it strictly. John Vandenberg 05:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Could you fill in the "source" field in the "textinfo" template on Talk:Peter Pan and Wendy. If it is strictly based on gutenberg etext 16, add {{gutenberg|16}}. Cheers, John Vandenberg 21:45, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year! thanks for restoring Peter and Wendy in a timely fashion; I've closed the copyvio discussion. John Vandenberg 03:16, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

LibriVox

Okay, so I see ten "complete" Tolstoy texts here, but then for each one I see "# Chapter 1-3 - 00:29:46 [mp3@64kbps - 14.2MB] [mp3@128kbps - 28.5MB] [ogg vorbis - 16.3MB]" and such. Do I always just upload the OGGs? What category/license do I tag on the Commons file? I don't mind uploading them since speed isn't a problem, just effort ;) Sherurcij ^{Collaboration of the Week: Author:Haile Selassie} 06:15, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Upload the OGGs to the Commons, tag them with an appropriate copyright tag (like PD-old-70), and also tag them with {{LibriVox public domain}}. Renaming the files is optional. In the "Source" field, put a link to the LibriVox page where you downloaded the file. In the "Date" field, indicate the publication date of the text and, if given, the date it was added to LibriVox. Here is an example: Commons:Image:LibriVox - The Scarlet Letter 01.ogg.

After that's done, use Template:Audio file to link to the recording. Example: The Scarlet Letter/I.

It's a time-consuming process. I've just been uploading the first couple chapters, in hope that others will see the incomplete addition and finish making the uploads. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 06:23, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I uploaded Commons:Image:Tolstoy - Three Hermits.ogg, but when trying to link it into The Three Hermits, it appears as a broken link. What am I doing wrong? :) Sherurcij ^{Collaboration of the Week: Wikisource:Sheet music} 06:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Don't include "Image:" in the file name. Also, you don't actually have to explicitly say "All LibriVox recordings have been released into the public domain" on the description page. The LibriVox public domain tag is enough.

Thanks for your help! —Remember the dot ^(talk) 06:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey

Was pleased to see "How the Other Half Lives" on Wikisource on Recent Changes, wondered who had originally added it (since I had hoped to add it myself and then forgotten) - and saw that it was you. Thanks for putting this landmark book on WS! Sherurcij ^{Collaboration of the Week: Wikisource:Sheet music} 00:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! Though I must confess, the book is incomplete. It lacks most of the photos and illustrations. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 00:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

slow down

You have raised a discussion on WS:S about use of {{header}}. Please wait for input from others before taking your own advice and making changes to works uploaded by others. Thank you, John Vandenberg 01:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, sorry. I'll wait. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 01:43, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

javascript

FYI. —Quadell (talk / swapmeet) 00:37, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

P.S., congratulations on your adminship on en:wiki! If you were to run here, I'd support you. All the best, —Quadell (talk / swapmeet) 01:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

preloaded templates and index: clash

When loading a new "Index:.." pagename, a header is added automatically by the widget, which conflicts with the Proofread Page extension which loads it's own page content. To create [[:Q Horati Flacci Carminum librum quintum.djvu, I needed to disable the gadget. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-TemplatePreloader.js

Hello,

There is bug in this script. The translator info is added when the template is "header2", but not when it is "header". Thanks, Yann 20:45, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

You can test it on Test header. I think I found and corrected it, but it would be good if you check my changes: [1]. Thanks, Yann 20:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Could you please help fixing this? MediaWiki talk:Gadget-TemplatePreloader.js Thanks, Yann (talk) 20:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

The first issue, about [[../Chapter 2|Chapter 2]] was intentional so that the "previous" and "next" links wouldn't get really long. The second issue, about override_author, was an oversight that is probably not going to be corrected. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 20:40, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Sysop

Hi,

You are now a sysop. If you know any languages other than English, could you please list those over at WS:ADMINS? Thanks!—Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 16:00, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Congrats!! Sorry, I completely missed this. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 10:06, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Haha, no problem, thanks! —Remember the dot ^(talk) 19:19, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Textinfo preload in sections

Gday. Been meaning to mention. On a talk page, when starts a new section, it puts a {{textinfo}} template into the section, irrespective of whether there is one on the page or not. Easily able to be deleted, however, in the next rendition, it would be sweet if that behaviour could be adapted. Thx. -- billinghurst (talk) 02:40, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Back from the wilderness! Nice to see your mug back around the site. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:15, 16 August 2013 (UTC)w

Thank you :) Glad to be of service. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 05:26, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

The Cloud of Unknowing

There is no source identified for this text. All Wikisource contributions must indicate the source from which their text was found.

All, It is standard to use "Chapter 1" for the chapter subpages, not "First Chapter", regardless of how they are labelled in the source. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:06, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

A quick inspection suggests that this is a secondary transcription from another website. Wikisource no longer accepts secondary transcriptions. If you can find a scan of the 1922 publication, and need help setting up an Index, we can help. But secondary transcriptions are no longer acceptable on Wikisource. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:10, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for the feedback. Could you please point me to the policy pages on these matters? I searched for clarification and assuming that what you say is current Wikisource policy, it is well hidden.

• For starters, Wikisource:Style guide says "The section name should reflect those in the original work", which implies that the subpage for the first chapter should be named "First chapter" as in the original work and not "Chapter 1".
• To address your concern about the provenance of the text, I added a textinfo template to Talk:The Cloud of Unknowing just now (although the same information was included in the edit summaries I left). The example in the template documentation references Project Gutenberg, and if text from Project Gutenberg is acceptable, I don't see why text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library wouldn't be. Help:Beginner's guide to sources explicitly says "Ideally all works on Wikisource will eventually have scans, replacing the works already present that do not. However, it is still OK to add proofread texts from other sources." But I agree that having a scan is better, so following the instructions at H:IA-Upload, I have now copied the book's scan from the Internet Archive to File:TheCloudOfUnknowing_201810.djvu and I'll move the text to the corresponding Index pages.

—Remember the dot ^(talk) 23:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

• The Style Guide also explicitly says: "Works that have chapters/sections should be numbered, not named (eg. use Chapter 1 ... )".
• Yes, there are older works that were copied from Gutenberg, and that is why that particular source template exists, but the community has decided to no longer accept such submissions. See WS:WWI. As a result, we no longer accept new submissions from Gutenberg or other such sites, and are working through older works to back them with scans. Copy-paste from other websites with second-hand provenance is no longer acceptable.
• Your work backing from the scan is what we currently want to see happening. It allows other editors to make corrections against a fixed standard of comparison. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:51, 21 July 2024 (UTC)