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
>>
>>
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