A slighly off-topic question: Even if we modify the extension to proofread
books which do not have scans( I am assuming books that were born digital
), against what
will these books be proofread?


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Thomas PT <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry if my answer is off-topic but if metadata are stored in WIkidata, is
> it really needed to create index pages to store the same data as Wikidata?
> As I see the things, we'll have bibliographical metadata on Wikidata
> (title, author, date of publication...) and data related to proofreading
> (proofreading level, table of content...) on the Index: pages. More, as the
> Proofread Page extension considers that an Index page is about a scan (ie
> one or more files) I'm not sure that Index pages about books without scan
> will be managed well by the extension.
>
> {{header|index name}} is already done, for books with scan, by the
> Proofread Page extension with the header=1 feature. In fr Wikisource, we
> already use a Lua module to manage the
> Mediawiki:Proofreadpage_header_template template used by the header=1
> feature. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Module:Header_template This
> template outputs automatically metadata and navigation from the index page
> TOC (but it allows also to override data).
>
> Tpt
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:33:39 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] About texts without supporting files and
> "Index:" pages
>
>
> I'm going to test what you are telling in a real Lua script; as you know,
> Lua can read the code of any page with one "expensive" server function
> only, so that a simple {{header|index name}} ns0 template call could read
> all the wiki code from index page, parse it, extract all its data content,
> and use it to build any html you like. No other field is needed. In
> it.wikisource we are testing something more complex, since we are exporting
> Index data into a local Lua data module, to be loaded with a mw.loadData
> function that is not listed  as "server-expensive"; but I presume that wiki
> servers would not be overloaded by *one* server expensive call....
>
> If Im not going wrong, such a script could be written tomorrow by a good
> Lua programmer.... I'll need some more time as a beginner.  I'll test
> a "MediaWiki:Proofreadpage_index_template" Lua loader & parser working into
> ns0, just to see if all runs as I guess, then I'll tell you in this thread.
> In which wikisource project do you work usually?
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> 2013/6/11 David Cuenca <[email protected]>
>
> No, it won't be stored in Wikisource, but still there is the need to
> present the information in a consistent manner.
> If you want to display the information on ns0, you will end up needing the
> same fields that the "Index:" page is using now.
> So why not to have the same solution for both?
>
> It could also be a template with a reduced set of fields that expands to
> show "Template:Book" with linked data from Wikidata, no matter if they have
> supporting scans or not.
>
> Micru
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Alex Brollo <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Simply there is no need to store data twice or more, if they are
> dinamically imported from wikidata. Such data would be simply generated by
> a normal template. Something similar to Commons media sharing: most
> wikipedians but beginners know that when you want to edit a shared media
> file, you must do you edit in Commons; there's no need to host a media file
> locally.
>
> So, IMHO a good Lua wikidata-reading library could avoid at all to store
> data in wikisource, or wikipedia, or Commons.
>
> Alex
>
>
> 2013/6/10 David Cuenca <[email protected]>
>
> @Alex: but what do you think of storing the source information in "Index:"
> pages for all works stored in Wikisource, even if they don't have a
> supporting scan?
>
> That was the original question :)
>
> About your proposed library, it would be more useful if it could modify
> data in Wikidata, not only import it. Besides, if the Wikidata client is
> installed in Wikisource, the inclusion syntax already takes care of
> displaying data...
>
> Micru
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Alex Brollo <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> I don't see the need to change deeply Index/ns0 relationship, while I
> appreciate the idea "promote coherence reducing redundance" (many years ago
> I painfully used dBase III - dBase IV and I learned that principle by "try
> and learn").
>
> Here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Scribunto/Brainstorming a
> brief message about relationship among wikidata, commons, wikisource and
> any other project. Don't follow the link, it's so short that I copy it here
> (but if you like it, comment it there):
>
> Scribunto-Lua and Wikidata
> I'd like a library to get Wikidata content; it would be a good idea IMHO
> to access to Wikidata data in plain form, just as such data would be Lua
> tables/variables. --Alex brollo (talk) 13:06, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
>
>
> If such a Lua library could be built, to import data from wikidata would
> be as simple, as writing a template, and data will be self-aligned.
>
> Alex
>
>
> 2013/6/10 Aarti K. Dwivedi <[email protected]>
>
> Hi,
>
>     There was a thread some time ago where there were talks of having
> books which were born digital. These pages wouldn't have scans.
> What the 'Index' page would have in these cases is something I am not very
> sure about.
>
> Cheers,
> Rtdwivedi
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:47 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> With the deployment of Wikidata it is a good moment to re-examine what
> "Index" pages are and what should be their function.
> The most direct transition to a Wikidata-supported Wikisource could be
> something like this:
> https://sites.google.com/site/dacuetu/BookData.pdf
>
> That would allow:
> - to share data book data between Commons, Wikisource and Wikipedia
> - to update it, when any of the sites has been updated
> - to facilitate better search functions (like searches by author, or
> topic, limiting the date range or the language)
>
> That would only apply to those texts which use a "Index:" page, so now the
> question is, what do we do with books that do not have supporting scans
> (and therefore no index page)?
>
> Some possible options:
> a) ignore pages without sources and focus only on works with supporting
> scans
> b) use ns0 pages also as data containers (instead of, or in addition to
> "Index" pages)
> c) create "Index:" pages for all works, with or without scans. Use that
> instead of "Template:Textinfo"
>
> Personally I prefer "option c", even if it would require to rename
> "Index:" to "Source:" to make more clear what are those pages, however I
> would like to hear the opinion of other wikisourcerors about this.
>
> Cheers,
> Micru
>
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