User talk:Arcorann

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Again, welcome! --Jan Kameníček (talk) 12:21, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Greek text

Hi, I saw you had done some proofing on Page:Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 3.djvu/194 (thanks, by the way) and I added Greek text to it and English transliteration (displays when hovering over the Greek text). I don't speak Greek but have a little knowledge of Greek letters from my science education. I just use the "Greek" pallette from the drop-down menu when editing which shows all the Greek characters. I use https://charlesloder.github.io/greekTransliteration/# to help with transliteration.

You may know that most of the pages in the Catholic Encyclopedia aren't transcluded, so if proofing a page usually won't help the article. I separately edited Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Christian Calendar to make the same changes — the article should be transcluded at some stage.

When proofing pages, I don't use the "clean-up" script which removes carriage return/line feeds. Leaving these intact makes it easier to see which changes have been made, but that's my preference. Keep up the good work. DivermanAU (talk) 18:09, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikisource:Annotations

The Proposal tag was removed, but on the authority of one person. True, no one objected, but the page never had the header added stating it's policy, and was never categorized as policy. Hence, the discussion to clarify that a community census exists. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:34, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Match and Split and PDFs

FYI Match and split requires a djvu for the source file and not a PDF. This is listed under the criteria: Help:Match and split. MarkLSteadman (talk) 14:44, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

The Story of the Flute

Being proofread is only one requirement to be listed as a new test. The work must also be fully transcluded, and the contents linked to the parts of the work. This has not happened for The Story of the Flute. Right now, it is not possible to read the work, so it is not ready to be listed as a New Text. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:39, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for that -- I hadn't noticed that the transclusion was still incomplete. I'll check more carefully in the future. Arcorann (talk) 06:51, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

wikidata link problems past and present

Linking pages from here to wikipedia has been done, in many places (like in the headers and also in the text) the link checks through this list, in order, to see if there is a link to anything (here, wikipedia, commons, species, quotes, dictionary, voyage, books, wikiversity and finally, if none exists, it points to wikidata. We work with the main subject property in some nice ways.

Getting our link at wikipedia is still the same as it used to be. Trudge over there, find the template, drop the link into the right spot. All non-updating links. I really was trying to lighten the load for the wikipedia sift through the rice at wikidata. It is really like that game of finding the paperclip in the bag of rice. The deeper wikipedia has to crawl wikidata for the information needed to draw a webpage, the slower the page, the warmer the computers, etc.

One of the balance problems over there at wikidata is what you can do vs. can it be done, really. And what you can do with it once you've done it. But I am rambling now. It took a while to gather all my memories of putting the projects here over at wikidata. It was and is challenging. My goal was to get all of the wikis working together.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 11:01, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Alphabet Cipher

After hearing about the cipher, I tried to find a source, but sometimes paraphrases were given as quotes so it was difficult to find. I eventually found these two pages, in different (I think quite modern) reprints of his work. Both are dated to his time, so they’re not modern reconstructions, but there isn’t a definite publication to which I can point you. I believe it was originally published as a single card, with the table on one side and the explanation printed on the back. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 14:29, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I wouldn't mind the details on those reprints, though I don't doubt they're from contemporary versions. (Before this version was uploaded I was planning to use the version from The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll as a scan-backed version; there are a few subtle differences in the layout.) Arcorann (talk) 02:14, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

And after a bit of searching I've found that Lewis Carroll Resources has scans of what they claim is the original version, and sure enough it doesn't quite match what we have here either (the alphabet table is much nicer). Now we have three versions to deal with... Arcorann (talk) 12:00, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Arcorann: I would take the “Lewis Carroll Resources” copy as definitive. The Complete Works copy is clearly re-typed. The “explanation” is the same between my copy and the “Resources” copy. I guess when I read that the table was copied (when I looked for my copy), I found a table that was accurately re-typed from the original. In that case, you can replace my PDF with the two scans from the “Lewis Carroll Resources” Web-page and re-do the formatting on the table. TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 16:19, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

ppoem

Hi, I noticed that in your cheat sheet you wrote

{{center block|{{ppoem| ... }}}}

and I wanted to tell you that it's redundant, as {{ppoem}} already centers the poem (by default, if you override this with index css then my bad). — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 11:42, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out. The cheat sheet's for personal use and only gets updated occasionally, I was far less experienced when I wrote that. I might as well cull the rows I'm not using. Arcorann (talk) 00:07, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

The Silent Prince

There are still text pages not proofread, and multiple chapters yet to be transcluded. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:12, 8 July 2024 (UTC)