Thank you Billinghurst, your work is priceless. Aubrey
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Wiki Billinghurst < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Part of one of my promises at WM2014 was to better communicate components > of our actions at enWS to the broader community. > > We have submitted bugs for ... > > 1. Turning webfonts back on for > enWS.https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69655 > Initially the request for fraktur fonts alone, so we could do blackletter. > However when having a conversation with WMF's Languages and > Internationalisation team they encouraged me to just request for a > reinstatement of the complete webfonts package. This has now had the patch > awaiting for review. This actually replicates what heWS has already done, > so it is not exactly trail-blazing. > > One outcome that I have semi-committed to do is to create a help page for > some of the fonts that are not full language fonts, but are able to be > generated with this reinstalled process. At this stage it would have to > live on enWS (due to enablement), however, if there was a local > conversation at OLDWIKISOURCE for a similar function, it would make more > sense to host it there. Hint! hint! to that community, and really should > have all those fonts. > > 2. General interwiki language link to oldwikisource is required > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32189 > This is the bug to get the mul: interlanguage prefix functioning. It is > blocked by another change that is waiting for review, and I am told to nag > Reedy, and/or others to progress it, which I am doing. Others may wish to > keep a lookout for those mentioned in the bug and see if they can get their > attention in IRC if they seem them active. > > 3. Increasing search weighting on namespaces other than main > namespacehttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69771 > We have found that authors in our author namespace rank pretty low in a > search compared to their works, so we have asked that we increase the > weighting for our Author: ns (ns:102). I made comment in the bugzilla that > this may be of interest to other WSes. To note that I have previously > discussed this with Nik at WM2014, and reported at our WS meeting that I > would be lodging this bugzilla. {{done}} > > 4. Refining typeahead search results for subpages at English > Wikisourcehttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69658 > For our biographical works where they are subpages we want to find them > when typing, not necessarily after a search. Another that was discussed at > WM2014, again which may have broader interest. {{done}} > > 5. Exploring tweaking of English Wikisource header templates for better > search results https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69772 > Question to Nik to see if we can use some of our 'metadata' in templates, > eg. microformat, or other bits, in smarter ways in CirrusSearch. Again > discussed at WM2014, and how asked to progress questions. > > Regards, Billinghurst > > PS. I still have other homework to submit, and as I get through the > backlog of tasks, it will get done. Just prioritising at the moment. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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