This email highlighted and remind me of a couple of issues, 

1. The indexing functionality and how it fails for transcluded pages; which is 
integral to 
ProofreadPage when it transcludes working pages into the main namespace for 
display. 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18861
(thanks to MZMcBride for helping me track this down)

2. The support around djvu files in general, which is improved, though still 
lacking in 
the <gallery> extension, see
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8480

Both of which have an impact for WS, though not exclusive to the site.

Regards, sDrewth


On 28 Jun 2010 at 23:22, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> There is a lot of potential in Wikisource, but it depends
> heavily on the ProofreadPage extension and it has several
> bugs that are reported but don't get fixed.
> 
> ThomasV is the main developer and perhaps he is the only
> maintainer? It would be in the interest of the Wikimedia
> Foundation to assign a salaried developer or two into
> developing a more robust framework for Wikisource, either
> by improving the existing extension or by integrating
> some or all of its functionality into MediaWiki proper.
> 
> People everywhere have a need to make some PDF (or Djvu)
> document available on a website, page by page, with the
> ability to add categories and talk pages. This ability
> is what the ProofreadPage extension adds to MediaWiki.
> In my mind, it is as essential as the support for uploading
> JPEG images and automatically generating thumbnails.
> Adding multipage documents to a wiki should be a far more
> common need than adding mathematical equations.
> 
> 
> -- 
>    Lars Aronsson ([email protected])
>    Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
> 
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