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Find and replace in CIA World Fact Book, 2004

This section was archived on a request by: Was bored, did it manually. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 07:45, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

I'm trying to make this work easier to update by using templates for more things. To this end, I would like to replace all instances of

{|width="90%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"|
|align="center"|[[Image:[text matching {{SUBPAGENAME}}]-CIA WFB Map.png]]
|}

with

{{World Factbook 2004 map}}

in the subpages of CIA World Fact Book, 2004.

For example, on CIA World Fact Book, 2004/Akrotiri,

{|width="90%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"|
|align="center"|[[Image:Akrotiri-CIA WFB Map.png]]
|}

should be replaced with

{{World Factbook 2004 map}}

If the find-and-replace process can't check text against the subpagename of the page it's currently operating on, please let me know so I can think about how to revise my request. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 05:36, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Different, easier find and replace in CIA World Fact Book, 2004

This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 05:02, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

This one's a lot more straightforward! Please replace all instances of

{{center|This page was last updated on 1 January 2003
----------
<br /><br />''This is a snapshot of the CIA World Fact Book as it existed on 26 March 2005''}}

with

{{World Factbook 2004 footer}}

(I'm trying to make formatting updates easier.) —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 01:23, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae done. Mpaa (talk) 18:24, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
@Mpaa Thank you!! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 05:02, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Would it be possible to replace any straight quotes to curly quotes? Thanks, Yann (talk) 15:56, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

@Yann curly to straight is easy, the opposite is 99% manual work (at least for me) to be done in an editor, only download and upload is automated. Mpaa (talk) 22:02, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
@Yann done. Mpaa (talk) 22:42, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 06:14, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Help move a large work

The work Love Songs needs to be moved to Love Songs (1917) for disambiguation. There are many subpages, each of which may have multiple links to them. Can we automate this move and all of its link updates? —Beleg Tâl (talk) 18:27, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

@Beleg Tâl done, hope everything is OK. I updated links in all pages which had links to either "Love Songs" or "Love Songs/xxx". Mpaa (talk) 22:31, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
Thank you!! —Beleg Tâl (talk) 02:07, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 06:01, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello,

Generally, I would just ask for the not-proofread pages to be marked proofread, having usually checked that things look okay. In this case, I can't really check if the (Persian?) characters have been proofread correctly. They seem fine, to someone who knows nothing much about them. At any rate, if you are happy to bot mark these pages proofread, please do, but if not, I understand.

Regards, TeysaKarlov (talk) 21:11, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Never mind, I took the manual approach. TeysaKarlov (talk) 23:55, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 06:01, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Please upgrade the page status of all not-proofread pages to proofread in Index:Heidi - Spyri - 1922.djvu

More work from unregistered users. The remaining images are being added (not sure if it is easier to wait, or makes no difference). Thanks, TeysaKarlov (talk) 20:20, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Done. Mpaa (talk) 15:58, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 15:58, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Please upgrade the page status of not-proofread pages in Index:The black tulip (IA 10892334.2209.emory.edu).pdf

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 15:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello again,

More work from unregistered users. Please mark non-advert pages proofread.

Thanks, TeysaKarlov (talk) 02:21, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Done 82.167.151.101 01:48, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
Done. Mpaa (talk) 12:34, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Please upgrade the page status of not-proofread pages in Index:Cornelli (IA cornelli00spyr 0).pdf

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 15:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Done by 82.167.151.101

Move pages

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 15:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I'd appreciate if someone could use a bot to move all created pages from index:Tree Crops.pdf to index:Tree Crops; A Permanent Agriculture (1929).pdf exactly as numbered. Thanks for any help. Jpez (talk) 09:44, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

@Jpez it seems to me that there is something wrong with the target index pagelist, it is not aligned with source index. Pages might be OK but before I move, could you please double check? Mpaa (talk) 16:58, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Mpaa (talk) Yes they were one page off due to the hathitrust cover page being removed. It should be ok now. Jpez (talk) 05:32, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
@Jpez I noticed the two files at Commons are the same file, why do you want to move? Just for the filename? Mpaa (talk) 19:55, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
@Mpaa Yes just for the filename since there is also one more edition in the public domain I'm aware of that may be added in the future. The new index was added with the year of the edition so I thought it would be better for it to remain out of the two. If there's a simpler solution of just a rename I'm all for it, I don't know how these things work. Jpez (talk) 18:44, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
@Jpez done. Mpaa (talk) 22:16, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
@Mpaa Thank you! Jpez (talk) 06:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 15:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Please can File:The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 011.djvu, Index:The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 011.djvu, and all its Page:s be moved to Index:The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register - Volume 011.djvu, without redirects, following this Scriptorium discussion. Thanks, --YodinT 11:02, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

@Yodin done. Mpaa (talk) 18:30, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much @Mpaa! --YodinT 10:28, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 10:24, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Only proofread text in Index:The Algebra of Mohammed Ben Musa (1831).djvu —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.167.153.5 (talk) 04:40, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Not done unsure what is even being asked here. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:14, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Inserting {{default layout}}) for the main namespace pages I created

This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 10:25, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

I am requesting to add to each main namespace I created the template {{default layout|Layout 4}}. I extracted a list of 10,771 unique titles from the main namespace list of contributions I created, excluding redirects and other anomalies. Is this file useful for this task? — ineuw (talk) 07:52, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

I oppose this change. The default layout should be set based on what the work requires, not who created the page. It's theoretically possible that all the mainspace pages you created are best served by a single given layout, but it seems very improbable. In other words, this request appears to in effect be more about what your personal layout preference is than what the texts and our readers require. Xover (talk) 08:07, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Find and replace Template:RunningHeader-centered usage in Collier's New Encyclopedia

This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 03:25, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm working on {{RunningHeader}} and {{RunningHeader-centered}}, and it would make my life a lot easier if Category:Running headers applying manual styles had fewer pages and I could tell more easily which pages are using the center-width parameter. The pages in Collier's New Encyclopedia don't need to use the center-width parameter because I've added the relevant styles to the index CSS. To that end, I would like a find-and-replace run on the pages of the following indexes:

Replace {{rh-c|{{c|'''[left]'''}}|[number]|{{c|'''[right]'''}}|center-width=10}} with {{rh-c|[left]|[number]|[right]}}. (Brackets are placeholders.) Thanks! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 06:19, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Doing… vol. 1. Xover (talk) 07:39, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 2. Xover (talk) 08:05, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 3. Xover (talk) 08:26, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 4. Xover (talk) 08:36, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 5. Xover (talk) 08:48, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 6. Xover (talk) 08:57, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 7. Xover (talk) 09:09, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 8. Xover (talk) 09:29, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 9. Xover (talk) 09:38, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Doing… vol. 10. Xover (talk) 09:48, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Done @CalendulaAsteraceae: One pass over all volumes completed and none appear to remain in the category. Xover (talk) 10:17, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 03:25, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Find and replace Template:RunningHeader-centered usage in The New International Encyclopædia

This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 06:40, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Same idea as the previous request: in the following indexes:

please replace {{rh-c|{{c|'''[left]'''}}|[number]|{{c|'''[right]'''}}|center-width=10}} with {{rh-c|[left]|[number]|[right]}}. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 03:38, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Doing… but it's going to take a while to churn through all these pages. Xover (talk) 08:43, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Done Apart from vol. 8, but that 1) doesn't seem to use rh-c and 2) seems to be completely broken anyway. Xover (talk) 22:35, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Add {{R from case citation}} to all redirects from case citations to cases

This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 06:02, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Would it be possible for a bot to detect redirects pointing from a case citation (e.g. 347 U.S. 483) to a case (here, Brown v. Board of Education), and add {{R from case citation}} to these. It would be useful to have all case citations in one category, given the obvious utility of Wikisource as a caselaw database for lawyers. BD2412 T 04:25, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

@BD2412: What's the identifying feature of a case page? Is it in a particular category? Does it contain a unique template? Once identified, should all redirects to these be so tagged, or only a subset of them? Do the redirects to these have a distinguishing feature to identify them as distinct from all other redirects on the site?
Adding a category to a set of pages is pretty straightforward, so the challenge is how to identify those pages automatically. Doing something to one page (the redirect) based on properties of another page (the actual case page) can also be challenging depending on the details (it may require writing a custom bot rather than just running one of the existing scripts for pywikibot).
Also, how many of these are there? If the criteria are complex, and the number of pages relatively low, it may be better to do it manually or semi-automated (a user script in the browser that finds and tags redirects to the current page on request, say). Xover (talk) 04:06, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
I have been thinking about exactly those issues. I don't know that we have any case citation redirects from non-U.S. cases, so the group to start with would be documents in the category tree under Category:United States case law by court. The redirects themselves will all be in a [Number] [Reporter] [Number] format, so for example the first page of results from a search for pages starting with "1" is almost entirely redirects to cases (everything from 100 L.Ed. 1003 on, with a few exceptions). So, anything in that format redirecting to something in that category tree should be a case citation redirect. I would also note that a great many of these were generated by User:BenchBot when that bot was active, and just counting those from the bot's contributions, there are over 9,000. I suppose I could do those manually, or use BD2412bot, but that will leave stray case citation redirects added by others. BD2412 T 04:25, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
I am doing some manually to see if there are any hitches that come up that way. BD2412 T 19:30, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
@BD2412: I have to admit I completely forgot about this request. Sorry. If the page selection logic is "Check all pages in Category:United States case law by court for incoming redirects, and pick the redirects whose page name matches [Number] [Reporter] [Number]" then I think it's probably doable. It's going to require writing a custom bot though, which I've not yet done so I'd need to find time for both the bot coding and the learning curve (which means it'll be a while before I might tackle it).
Mpaa is vastly more skilled than me in this area though, so perhaps they could be persuaded to help?
Hmm. Or possibly there is a Toolforge tool for querying the wikis for pages that match these criteria? Once we have the list of redirects adding the template to all of them is trivial; it's getting the list of pages (redirects) that's a little bit challenging. Quarry maybe? That'll need understanding SQL JOINs, which make my head hurt, but should be doable for someone with a bit of DBA in their mix. PetScan is also often great for this kind of thing, but I don't think it can be query for incoming redirects like this. Hmm. And you could probably do this on-wiki in JavaScript too, come to think of it. Xover (talk) 06:26, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
I believe I did most of these manually at some point. Still, there will always be new ones. BD2412 T 06:32, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
Oh, ok. Should we consider this request resolved then (so it'll get archived)? Or were you looking for a permanent bot task to do this automatically as new cases are added? Xover (talk) 06:45, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
A bot to pick these up as new cases or added would be nice. I don't think I could track that manually. BD2412 T 19:01, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
@BD2412, @Xover
To summarize:
1. walk recursively Category:United States case law by court
2. find redirects that point to pages in above categoryies
3. if redirect title matches '\d+ [^ ]*? \d+' and does not contain {{R from case citation}}, append it
I made a test for some articles in Category:United States Supreme Court decisions in Volume 107.
Are these edits OK? Mpaa (talk) 22:46, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
@Mpaa: yes, those are absolutely correct. BD2412 T 23:04, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
@BD2412 ongoing. This query gives pages pointed by a redirect matching the regex but not yet tagged with {{R from case citation}}. From here there are several possibilities to ensure they are pages of interest. I intersected them with pages belonging to (subcategories of) "Category:United States case law by court". Mpaa (talk) 21:20, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Done. Mpaa (talk) 21:04, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
@BD2412: Is this request completed? i.e., can it be tagged for archiving with {{section resolved|1=--~~~~}}? Xover (talk) 10:22, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
@Xover: Yes, I think this can be called completed. BD2412 T 03:23, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: --Xover (talk) 06:03, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Currently the long s is represented as literal "ſ", which also shows when transcluded in the mainspace; is there a bot that can replace all instances with {{ls}}? Arcorann (talk) 09:47, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

@Arcorann: Done Xover (talk) 07:08, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 20:48, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello,

At the moment, the quote styles in this work are quite inconsistent, but I am not sure if it is easier to change to straight or curly. If it isn't too difficult, please convert to a consistent style of your choice. However, if the number of required changes is going to make the task quite difficult, I am okay with leaving things as is.

Thanks, TeysaKarlov (talk) 00:39, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

I'm not a bot operator, but FWIW it's a lot easier to change to consistently use straight quotes. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 04:48, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
@TeysaKarlov done. Mpaa (talk) 20:48, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
@Mpaa Many thanks, I was not expecting this to happen. And now I can finally remove the "needs standardizing" template marring the front page of the final report. Yay! TeysaKarlov (talk) 19:33, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Please replace {{RunningHeader-centered}} usage in Collier's New Encyclopedia and The New International Encyclopædia with {{RunningHeader}}, since the text alignment is already handled in the index CSS, and the main {{RunningHeader}} template is more stable. More specifically, please replace {{rh-c| with {{rh| in the pages of the following indexes:

Thanks! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 18:24, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Doing… Xover (talk) 08:59, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Done Xover (talk) 22:35, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Awesome, thank you!
This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 23:03, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Replace unnecessary use of Template:RunningHeader/1

There are a number of pages that use {{RunningHeader/1}} when they don't actually need the underlying (somewhat complex) logic or the header class, and would be fine just using {{center}}. Would it be possible to replace {{rh/1| with {{c| in the pages of the following indexes?

CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 23:11, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Spot-checking these, and cf. discussions elsewhere, I think it's slightly premature to run this just yet as it's not entirely clear what the best target for a replacement would be. e.g. it may be that {{rh}} is the better target. Xover (talk) 09:00, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Legit. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 04:47, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 04:47, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Migrate two-parameter invocations of Template:RunningHeader with named parameters

More fairly straightforward replacements, I hope.

Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 05:44, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: Done Xover (talk) 19:53, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 20:32, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 20:29, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Migrate empty one- and two-parameter invocations of Template:RunningHeader

There are over 100,000 uses of {{RunningHeader}} with only one or two parameters. Fortunately, a few thousand of them are easy to migrate, because they're empty. In the following pages, please replace \{\{[Rr]unning[\s]?[Hh]eader\|[\s]*[\|]?[\s]*\}\} and \{\{[Rr][HhFf]\|[\s]*[\|]?[\s]*\}\} with {{rh|||}}.

CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 03:33, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Are these entirely blank? If so, I question the need to have them in the Page: concerned. Having a redundant template is bloat than can be sensibly removed I would have thought? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:15, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
I'd be OK with that too, I'm just taking a more conservative approach in this request in case there's some reason to keep them I haven't thought of. That said, this is the result of a search for entirely empty running headers: insource:/\{\{[Rr](unning)?(\s)?[HhFf](eader)?\|[\s\|]*\}\}/, insource:/\{\{[Rr](unning)?(\s)?[HhFf](eader)?\s[\s\|]*\}\}/, insource:/\{\{[Rr](unning)?(\s)?[HhFf](eader)?\}\}/CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 15:31, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Done Xover (talk) 22:06, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! Could you also delete the uses of {{rh}} without any parameters? insource:/\{\{[Rr](unning)?(\s)?[HhFf](eader)?\}\}/CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 22:22, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Done Xover (talk) 17:05, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 21:31, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 21:14, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Migrate one-parameter invocations of Template:RunningHeader in UK Traffic Signs Manual

Very consistent formatting in these! Replace {{RunningHeader|[text]}} with {{RunningHeader|[text]||}} in the pages of

CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 00:06, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Done Xover (talk) 11:19, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 21:30, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 21:14, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Replace single-parameter uses of Template:RunningHeader

Cf. User talk:Xover#Template_talk:RunningHeader#Migrating this template to Lua and User talk:ShakespeareFan00#Template:RunningHeader/1 revert. Some of these uses are pretty straightforward to target. By index:

CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 16:00, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: What's your rationale for migrating uses of {{rh}} to {{c}} and {{right}}? Why not the equivalent invocation of {{rh}} ({{rh||foo|}} and {{rh|||foo}})? They are presumably running headers and preserving the semantics would seem desirable. Xover (talk) 16:08, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
@Xover: My rationale is that {{rh}} seems overcomplicated for those particular uses, but I take your point about the semantics and would be fine with migrating to the equivalent invocation of {{rh}} instead. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 16:11, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
An updated proposal: in the pages listed above, replace
  • {{[running header]|left=[text]}}{{rh|[text]||}}
  • {{[running header]|(center|centre)=[text]}}{{rh||[text]|}}
  • {{[running header]|right=[text]}}{{rh|||[text]}}
CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 20:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
@Xover: just making sure you see this. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 08:25, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
@CalendulaAsteraceae: Done Xover (talk) 16:28, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 20:40, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 20:40, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Migrate some one- and two-parameter invocations of Template:RunningHeader

I'm still working on finding these! Replacements I'd like:

CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 07:08, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: Done Xover (talk) 20:57, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 21:06, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 21:06, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Please upgrade the page status of not proofread pages in Index:Complete Works of Count Tolstoy - 13.djvu

The work of an unregistered user. Images aside, please upgrade the rest of the pages to proofread. Many thanks, TeysaKarlov (talk) 19:45, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 21:04, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
@TeysaKarlov done. Mpaa (talk) 21:04, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Pages proofread by an IP

This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 19:21, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Please increment the page status of the following works, as they have been proofread/validated by an anonymous user:

Thanks. MER-C 10:14, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

@MER-C I saw some progress, shall the page range be extended? Mpaa (talk) 18:31, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Yes. MER-C 18:44, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
proofread for Index:Complete_Works_of_Count_Tolstoy_-_13.djvu Done
by an anonymous user 82.167.159.197 05:46, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
@anonymous user: I recommend registering, this will give you (among others) the possibility to mark pages as proofread. BTW registered users are in fact even more anonymous, as they provide just a chosen user name, and their IP is hidden. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 09:08, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, but I have my reasons 82.167.159.197 08:05, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 19:21, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

The original scan of this was defective (missing fold-out maps) so I have replaced it with a different scan of the same edition, which has misaligned transcribed pages. Please re-align as follows (hopefully it makes sense). Reference to 'current pages' mean the existing transcribed ones, with 1 meaning Index:Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 1 (2nd edition).djvu/1, etc.

Current pages [7 to 20] to [1 to 14] (i.e. move by 6, overwriting existing blanks 1 to 6)

Create new blank pages [15 and 16]

Current pages [21 to 70] to [17 to 66] (i.e. move by 4)

Current pages [75 to 76] to [67 to 68] (i.e. move by 8)

Create new blank pages [69 and 70]

Current pages [77 to 150] to [71 to 144] (i.e. move by 6, overwrite existing pages 71 to 74)

Current pages [153 to 154] to [145 to 146] (i.e. move by 8)

Create new blank pages [147 and 148]

Current pages [155 to 184] to [149 to 178] (i.e. move by 6, overwrite existing pages 151 to 152)

Create new blank pages [179 and 180]

Current pages [185 to 186] to [181 to 182] (i.e. move by 4)

Current pages [189 to 212] to [183 to 206] (i.e. move by 6, overwrite existing pages 187 to 188)

Create new blank pages [207 and 208]

Current pages [213 to 290] to [209 to 286] (i.e. move by 4)

Create new blank pages [287 and 288]

Current pages [291 to 296] to [289 to 294] (i.e. move by 2)

Delete current blank pages [297 to 306]

Thanks, Chrisguise (talk) 14:55, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

@Chrisguise Done. Mpaa (talk) 16:23, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick turnaround Chrisguise (talk) 17:40, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Please move this and all subpages, and all sub-subpages, and all Talk pages of pages, subpages, etc., to the basepage Anna Karenina (Garnett). This is the English translation by C. Garnett, and another English translation (by another translator) is currently in process of transcription.

The page Anna Karenina will become a disambiguation page as a result.

I would do this myself using the usual tools, but such moves are limited to 100 subpages, and this work has far more than 100 subpages. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:59, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey done. Mpaa (talk) 22:54, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:48, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Mpaa (talk) 22:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Please convert any straight quotes to curly quotes. It seems Vol 1 (although I haven't checked through all of it) and much of Vol 2 have curly quotes, except near the end of Vol 2, the consistency is lost. Of course, if you feel like doing any other cleaning up (spaces around semicolons or hyphens, or missed nops), feel free, although I have hopefully caught most of them (again, mainly near the end of V2). Thanks, TeysaKarlov (talk) 21:54, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

done. Mpaa (talk) 17:48, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
@Mpaa Thanks! If I might ask one more thing, is there an issue with my Historic Highways request on the Scan Lab, or in just my foolish forgetting to ping the Scan Lab, did it go unnoticed? Thanks again, TeysaKarlov (talk) 21:18, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Fix index of moved scan file: Index:Paralimomena Pick 1908.djvu

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The scan file was moved without updating the Index page. Can someone please move the Index page and all Page pages from Index:Paralimomena Pick 1908.djvu to Index:Paralipomena Pick 1908.djvu and remove redirects? Thanks! —Beleg Âlt BT (talk) 15:08, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Doing… Xover (talk) 08:18, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
@Beleg Tâl / @Beleg Âlt: Done Xover (talk) 08:26, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
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I mistakenly moved In the Days of the Comet to within the collected works of H. G. Wells. I have tried to undo the move myself but the system responds with the message (in red) 'The edit appears to have already been undone.', but it hasn't. Can someone fix this please?

Should be OK now. Mpaa (talk) 10:22, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Remove empty invocations of Template:RunningHeader

So, I just learned that \s doesn't get results in an insource search, but just typing the space character does, and with that knowledge, I've found more empty running headers. Please delete all cases of \{\{[Rr](unning)?(\s)?[HhFf](eader)?\|[\| ]*\}\} in these pages. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 04:26, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: Done Xover (talk) 13:40, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 00:58, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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As discussed here, I'm working on updating some of the heading templates. These are uses of {{chapter heading}} in the Page namespace, with no additional parameters, where I've already set up the index to use {{pseudoheading}} and maintain the same styles: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=24006062. I would really appreciate it if, in the pages listed in the petscan, {{chapter heading| and {{ch| could be replaced with {{pseudoheading|. Thanks! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 05:36, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: Not certain why we are doing any of this? template:chapter heading is not something that the community has had any consensus to do, and I would propose that it is out of sync with WS:Style guide and the presentation of text and the use of display layers. and peoples ability to have their own CSS as they require. Text is king. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:34, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
@Billinghurst, I'm having trouble parsing this. I understand that you're raising concerns about my approach to template creation and/or use, and I would like to understand your concerns better so I can respond appropriately. In particular, is there a verb missing from the beginning of "template:chapter heading is not something that the community has had any consensus to do"?
My understanding had been that templates like {{pseudoheading}}, which are designed for use with index CSS, are essentially meant to be an alternative to layering formatting templates like {{center|{{larger|Chapter 1}}}} in cases where there's consistent formatting throughout a work. Personally, when I'm proofreading a work, I prefer index styles when there's repeated formatting throughout a work and I might change my mind partway through about what that formatting should be (like if I notice that those smaller all-caps lines were actually regular-sized all-small-caps). Is this understanding missing something?
I'm not clear on what "display layers" means in this context, nor on what you're saying interferes with people's ability to have their own CSS. I wouldn't expect inline styles vs. CSS to make much of a difference in that regard, so again, I'm probably missing something here. (And that something may be experience customizing websites' CSS beyond making minor improvements with Stylus.) —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 08:08, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
@Billinghurst, @CalendulaAsteraceae what's the forward here? The approach looks reasonable to me, the only unclear thing is if, after this, the intention is to kill {{chapter heading}}. Mpaa (talk) 19:01, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
@Mpaa: I for one would like to either kill {{chapter heading}} (after making sure it's unused) or convert it to a {{pseudoheading}} derivative without all the manual style parameters (after making sure Category:Chapter heading usage with manual styles is empty, which it currently is apart from the documentation). Really the only visible difference between {{ch}} and {{ph/main}} is the margins. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 20:40, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
@CalendulaAsteraceae done. Mpaa (talk) 16:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
@Mpaa: Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 23:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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A newcomer had been adding {{wdl}} template usages throughout the work. These need to be removed from all Page: uses, both the template and Q-id. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:57, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey What is the rationale? On the template page itself there is no mention of proper or improper use. Is it because it can be considered overlinking in this case? If so, a mention about proper usage on the template page might be needed. Mpaa (talk) 21:51, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
The rationale is Wikisource:Annotations. Links to Wikidata are not permitted links. I agree, we need more people documenting the correct use of templates, as most of our templates have little to no guidance on proper and improper use. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:55, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
That was a lot of work. I left a note on the talk page and saved the annotations if someone is going to need them. I will run the bot in the coming days. Mpaa (talk) 22:19, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Ugh, and that's rather a lot of work by the contributor, which looks like pretty good quality too from what little I looked, so it's a crying shame to lose it. Makes me think we should look into ways to facilitate "invisible" annotations of this sort, but I suspect anything we could actually do just now would be infeasible in practice. Xover (talk) 06:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Yes, exactly. That is why I saved it before deleting it. Regarding visibility, there was some talk about it in the template talk page and in Template:Wikidata_link/styles.css. Maybe it is not a feature that is too complex to add (for those who know how to play with gadgets and .js, i.e. not me). Mpaa (talk) 20:22, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Links to Wikidata where done onside a University of Florence. Italy, project whose students worked initially on french Wikisource e than on e.wikisource, learning to correct texts on Wikisource and create items on Wikidata. Susanna Giaccai (talk) 09:45, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
@EncycloPetey @Giaccai I can't understand this issue. I appeciate as lot the idea of Wdl template, since it usually outputs robust dynamic wikisource or wikipedia links that can't be broken by an edit of wikisource or wikipedia page names (and linking to an editable field is a terrible database mistake!). IMHO this is an excellent feature. When the template links to a wikidata item, it simply encourage any willing user to create a needed wikisource or wikipedia page. I can't see anything wrong into this template behaviour. Alex brollo (talk) 09:54, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
@Alex brollo: The links were against our linking policy. Links, in general, are treated like annotations on enWS, and hence the linking policy only permits a very controlled subset of links. In this particular case the links were to things like historical personages, places, structures, concepts, etc. Those are appropriate links for a Wikipedia article, but not for a text reproduced on Wikisource (I mean enWS here; other languages will obviously have their own policies and practices around this). In essence, we permit links to authors (people who have or should have an Author:-namespace page on enWS) and works (anything that is or could be hosted on enWS), plus a very limited set of Wikitionary links. Even permitting very restricted linking to authors on enWP was controversial the last time we had a discussion, and there is a general fear of overlinking (we've had some egregious examples). Xover (talk) 12:53, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
@Xover @Giaccai Thanks, I realize that overlinking could be a problem. Nevertheless, IMHO I think that Wdl is appropriate for links to Authors, and to Works, even when the resulting link points to Wikidata. Alex brollo (talk) 17:02, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
In a footnote or bibliography, this makes sense, because the work is pointing the reader to that author or source. But in the middle of a paragraph, it (a) becomes a visual distraction, and (b) creates problems for people reading with touch-screens, who inadvertently open links and leave the text without meaning to. It's as much an accessibility issue as it is aesthetic. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:50, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
Done Mpaa (talk) 21:04, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
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I removed extraneous pages from this file. Could you increment the 'page' number on all transcribed pages by -1 please. Chrisguise (talk) 02:25, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

done. Mpaa (talk) 19:08, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks Chrisguise (talk) 23:03, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Multiple missing images and interleaved blank pages

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The body of "The Pictorial Flora; or British Botany Delineated" comprises alternating images and blank pages; all unnumbered.

Please can someone use a bot to set each image page to match file page 9 (with the page number in the template incremented appropriately) and the interleaved blank pages to match file page 10?

If you have a tool to build the page index to match, so much the better. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:08, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Three helpers
  1. use the script MediaWiki:Gadget-Without text.js <=without text (script enables clear and save of Page: ns pages
  2. we can write you a script for your sidebar to click to add {{raw image|{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}}}
  3. For the Index: page there is also the available "even" and "odd" syntax that enables one to mark the pages as you require, see mul:Wikisource:ProofreadPage#The <pagelist/> tag.
Noting that we can just mark the empty page as empty, and have no need to do anything with them, neither mark them without text, and this way any transclusion will just ignore them as they don't exist. So skipped 1) and done 3). For 2) I await your guidance. Personally, I would not do anything and just add them when the images are ready. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:22, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. Every day's a school-day. When I asked previously about bulk marking pages as without text, I was referred here. My wish was to not have to visit every such page, even script assisted, to carry out repetitive task. "=empty" is useful, but it's a pity that it renders bogus page numbers on the index page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
I tried that in The Pictorial Flora; or British Botany Delineated/001-132, but there are red links between several of the pates (but not the first few). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:06, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
Index namespace is a work area, and the use of pagelist is to push the components through to transcluded namespace. It is not designed to be sexy, it is designed to show the workings. If you think that it needs improving for the page numbers marked empty, that is a job for phabricator: and the ProofreadPage extension. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
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I replaced the file for this work because it was missing its title page. Could you increment the page number on all of the transcribed pages by 1 please. Regards,Chrisguise (talk) 11:09, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

@Chrisguise: Done Xover (talk) 11:37, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. Chrisguise (talk) 12:15, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Please convert any remaining curly quotes to straight quotes in Index:Harmonium - Wallace Stevens.djvu

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I think I got most of them, but just in case. If there is an easy way for a user to search for these, without a bot request, please let me know. Thanks, TeysaKarlov (talk) 02:39, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

@TeysaKarlov: The search engines are no use as they unfortunately treat them as equivalent. Once transcluded you can do a find through your browser as it sees then as different. Personally, I have a text replacement regex script (running through the m:TemplateScript framework and seen at enWS as the gadget "regex editor") that I run when editing the pages. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:04, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
@TeysaKarlov: If you're working without scripts or bots, you can transclude the entire text to a temporary Sandbox in your User space. Then search using your browser, with "match diacritic" turned on if you're in Firefox (or the equivalent in another browser). You'd need to search separately for left and right single quotes, and left and right double quotes, then manually edit individual pages from another tab, but it will let you find all of them. -EncycloPetey (talk) 03:11, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
@Billinghurst, @EncycloPetey. Thanks both for the tips. At this point, I was looking for something after the text is already transcluded, so I went with EncyloPetey's approach. Admittedly, I couldn't match diacritics with chrome by default (there might be an extension), but after checking by eye, I could copy-paste into notepad and have it check left and right singles and doubles there. Thanks again, and feel free to mark this section resolved. TeysaKarlov (talk) 04:06, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
@TeysaKarlov: There are ways to search for these, but none of the ways are easy for any relevant definition of the term. But if you have big jobs such as this in future, do feel free to request a bot run to replace them. I just checked using one of them and there appear to be no curly quotes left in that work. Xover (talk) 09:19, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

One more CIA World Fact Book, 2004 request

This one's a bit more complicated than my previous request. I'm working on doing the styles with templates and CSS classes. Fortunately, the users who worked on these pages have been remarkably consistent with the formatting markup, so it's pretty easy to update with find and replace (I've done a couple pages). The replacements I'd like for each subpage, in order, are:

Replace

{|cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" border="0" width="90%" align="center"|

with

{{World Factbook 2004/table header}}

Replace

{|width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" align="center"|

with

{{World Factbook 2004/table header}}

Replace

!align="left" valign="middle" width="20%" height="31" style="background:#CCCCCC;"|[section]
!align="left" valign="middle" width="80%" height="31" style="background:#CCCCCC;"|[country]

with

{{World Factbook 2004/table section|[section]|[country]}}

Replace

!align="left" valign="middle" width="20%" height="31" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"|[section]
!align="left" valign="middle" width="80%" height="31" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"|[country]

with

{{World Factbook 2004/table section|[section]|[country]}}

Replace

! width="20%" align="right" valign="top"|

with

!|

Replace

| width="80%" align="left"  valign="top"|

with

||

Delete

{{anchor|[section]}}

Delete

|}
{{World Factbook 2004/table header}}

Delete

|}

{{World Factbook 2004/table header}}

For clarity, [words in brackets] are placeholders, and a blank line at the end of a code block means to include the ending linebreak in the pattern. Thanks! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 05:17, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: Done Xover (talk) 16:36, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 16:37, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
@Xover: Is there a reason why (e.g.) CIA World Fact Book, 2004/Western Sahara no longer has the bold markup it used to have? —Justin (koavf)TCM 16:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
@Koavf: Only that CalendulaAsteraceae has apparently not added that styling yet. Xover (talk) 17:19, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
@Xover: I think your script replaced table headers with table cells; cf. this diff.
Also, if I could request one more replacement, could you change | width="80%" align="left" valign="top"| to ||? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 17:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
@CalendulaAsteraceae: Bleh. Yeah, when cutting and pasting I mentally "merged" those two patterns, which is why the header got converted to "||" and the second one wasn't replaced at all. So it turns out, Koavf, that there was a reason, and that reason was me being a dummy.
Sigh. I don't think there's any sane way I can detect the now-broken headers, so I'm probably going to have to figure out a way to mass-revert all these changes, and then reapply them with the corrected replacements. Never done that before, so this'll be fun. Xover (talk) 17:58, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
@CalendulaAsteraceae: Ok, now, gosh darn it, now it should be Done. I hope, because the mass revert script is really dumb and I really really don't wanna have to go back for a third try. ;) Xover (talk) 20:24, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
@Xover, that looks good to me! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talkcontribs) 21:02, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Lovely. :This section was archived on a request by: —Justin (koavf)TCM 02:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)