Hello! This seems somewhat related to the problems we have at Wikibooks. There is plenty of bugs which describe these problems, and I think some of them are also problems at Wikisource: * Wikibooks custom database schema ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15071) * Create a set of special pages for handling meta-organization of books ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15073) * Separate reference page for glossaries, bibliographies, etc ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10092) * Protect, watchlist or delete a whole book at once ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15072) * List, count and search all books ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15074) * Per-book stylesheets (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15075 ) * Allow <ref>s from multiple pages to be collected into one <references/> on another page (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15070)
Helder On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 09:31, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/01/2010 12:22 PM, ThomasV wrote: > > I apologize for the length of my answer. I wish to thank those who > > have had the patience to read this entire post. > > The problem is not a long post or two, but the fact that > you seem to have locked yourself to this single issue. > I'd like to discuss some far more visionary changes > in how Wikisource works, but all you can talk about are > these two stages of proofreading. > > Let me start from another angle: Does anybody have > experience from teaching beginners how to contribute > to Wikisource? What are the hardest concepts to explain? > I think we should compile and rank the current obstacles > to the growth of Wikisource. > > Just as one example, I would put the multiple namespaces > (Index: and Page:) pretty high on that list, and I think > that a redesign could do away with them. There was indeed > a bug report filed for something similar, from the Polish > community, that wanted to disconnect the naming of Index > pages from the naming of PDF/Djvu files: > > "<pagelist> should have file parameter", > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21398 > > ThomasV replied with "WONTFIX", which is understandable > since this is not a simple bug fix, but a more complicated > change of architecture. The problem is that this > architecture was never documented, so we don't know > which the design decisions are. Or was it? > > This is just one example of how Wikisource is really > overly complicated, putting extra burden on newcomers, > and where Wikisource would benefit from a redesign. > But my suggestion is that we start to compile a catalog > of such problems, rather than submitting bug reports. > Where is a good place to start? > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
