I apologyze.... " The server too can't solve *some* apostrophes concatenation"
Alex 2013/6/11 Alex Brollo <[email protected]> > You're right Aubrey nevertheless while promoving a user friendly interface > the result is that data and wiki code is extremely difficult to use as a > clean "data base". Think only to wiki markup and the "simple" trick to mark > bold and italic text with apostophes.... very user friendly, but something > like a nightmare for a poor programmer which needs to find the algorithm to > understand which apostophes are text and which are code. The server too > can't solve solve apostrophes concatenation. Was it less user friendly to > use something like <b>...</b>? Yes; but.... how much cleaner raw wiki text > would be! > > Distributed Proofreaders uses a completely different approach: there's a > rigid set of increasing abilitations for users, and unexperienced users can > do simple task only. This is far from "wiki mentality", but we can't expect > to keep things too much easy. > > Alex > > > 2013/6/11 Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> > >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:41 AM, 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. >>> >>> I think that this is a matter of usability and user experience. >> If we are going to use Index pages, we'll let users *stay on Wikisource* >> the whole time, while the complexity and data workflow would be hidden to >> them. >> It's a *bad* thing to ask newbies to navigate through Wikisource (entry), >> then Commons (file upload), the Wikisource(create Index page), then >> Wikidata(fetch data), then Wikisource(start working on the book) again to >> work on just a book. >> >> For me this is one of the main obstacles to beginners, and we should try >> to ease things for people, IMHO. >> >> Aubrey >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> >
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