User talk:DivermanAU

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 10:09, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Doing nice work

Gday. You are doing some excellent proofreading on "The Dictionary of Australasian Biography". As a tip, with sections, I am not sure whether you are using the ## section name ## or the pair of <section begin="" /><section end="" /> … anyway, it would be lovely if you could insert the section names within double quote " ". It is a good practice as without the quotes it just sees the first word as the section name (it terminates on a space), so becomes problematic wherever a surname repeats on a page; whereas with the quotes, it takes the whole component as the tag name. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:52, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback and tips;, I tried the ## section name ## method on one page and it didn't seem to work out, so more recently I've been using section begin/end. I'll remember to use " " for the ## method if I try it again. Diverman (talk) 21:19, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

You are doing a fantastic job, and you've got the transclusions spot on. As feedback about my original formatting for the work, I am still uncertain about the div formatting. Some of the smaller look RS when spread, and some of the larger don't need to be squashed. That said it looks good on my handheld devices.

If you are into hacking your js configuration pages, I have some good javascript shortcuts that help to take some of the tedium from editing, eg. section tags and transclusion. Some in the old toolbar, some in a sidebar. Call if you want assistance.

With wikilinks, we link 0) all works mentioned; and preferentially 1) articles within a work and especially with q.v.-type links, and with this work we use {{DAB lkpl}} (ie. link plain), 2) to Author pages where they exist or may exist, 3) to enWP. We have tended to underlink other components of works. If you are at enWP, then there we have {{cite Australasia}} that links back to the individual pieces of the work. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:28, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again for the feedback, I'm keen to try out the javascript shortcuts and would appreciate your guidance on how to install and use them.
I've used my first {{DAB lkpl}} link just recently, I'll try to keep using them where relevant. I've also used the {{cite Australasia}} link at WP, it's a good way to link those articles back to a primary source.Diverman (talk) 02:47, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

I should have noted that I am a bit of a dinosaur and 1) using the older style toolbar Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing and turning off the beta features as per Wikisource:Tools and scripts/More editing buttons; 2) sidebar regex tool Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets and you would need to modify the preferences to use these features. As an admin, I am able to edit your Special:MyPage/common.js file and can load some of these instances if that is helpful to you. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:34, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

I have moved forward (if I understand your statements) and put in place the regex text components, and you will need to turn on your regex gadget. To see and use these components, when you edit you will see grey clickable text on the left had side of the edit pane, beneath the sidebar. Some are designed solely for certain namespace.

If this has worked, and you are ready for toolbar buttons, let me know. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:58, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Not sure how to turn on regex gadget, sorry. I'll need instructions, I'm not familiar with the gadgets. I didn't see any grey editable text yet.

As an aside, I have written a script (in AutoIt) to auto-generate the individual's entries in Australasian. I start with a CSV file that has the person's name and djvu page numbers. So when I proofread pages, I paste the data in Excel, then do a little massaging, save the CSV file and pass that as a parameter to the script. Then it auto-generates the text (one per entry) that transcludes that person's info. Then I paste that into Wikisource. Diverman (talk) 07:44, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets check the box for the text "Add a sidebar menu of user-defined regex tools, with a dynamic form for instant one-use regex (documentation)." and save it. This turns the tool on. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:28, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

RunningHeader Script "rh"

I've been using the "clean up" script when editing pages - it's very handy, thanks! (Just got to watch for valid hyphenated words split across lines like "Agent-General" where the hyphen vanishes.)

I haven't been able to get the {{rh}} script to work - it doesn't appear to do anything. Is there a technique for making it work? I've just been using the RunningHeader tempate manually. Diverman (talk) 11:15, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

I would generally do {{hyphenated word start|Agent|Agent-General}} and {{hyphenated word end|General|Agent-General}}
For {{RunningHeader}}, you have a choice of three parameters {{RunningHeader|||}} which are $1 = left, $2 = center, or $3 = right. Alternatively you can use named parameters left=left text, right = right text, and center =center text — billinghurst sDrewth 15:02, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Woohoo! Congratulations

Fantastic job on the completion of The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. I think that you deserve the task of now editing this to Template:New texts. Again congrats. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:15, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

You need to add the {{new texts/item}} template to Template:New texts rather than to the work. Cheers, Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for that Beeswaxcandle, I wasn't sure where it should go and now fixed it up. Diverman (talk) 11:14, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations to you and Billinghurst on completing this work. It looks like it was a huge project which I'm sure you happy to see the back of. Thanks. Moondyne (talk) 09:44, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Moondyne, and thanks to Billinghurst for starting the project. Now I'm going to be adding info from the DAB to Wikipedia where appropriate for a while to come! Diverman (talk) 11:14, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh gee, and here I had in mind Strzelecki's Index:Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.djvu :-))) — billinghurst sDrewth 14:30, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

{{DAB link}} is available for the fuller citations. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:54, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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New Proposal Notification - Replacement of common main-space header template

Announcing the listing of a new formal proposal recently added to the Scriptorium community-discussion page, Proposals section, titled:

• Switch header template foundation from table-based to division-based

The proposal entails the replacement of the current Header template familiar to most with a structurally redesigned new Header template. Replacement is a needed first step in series of steps needed to properly address the long time deficiencies behind several issues as well as enhance our mobile device presence.

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EB1911 updates

Thanks for the proofreading efforts in EB1911 page space. EB1911 needs a lot more attention and there aren't enough editors! However, you may be setting the rest of us a high bar with the typographical changes. In case you didn't see it, I re-opened that discussion at Wikisource talk:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. DavidBrooks (talk) 19:42, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Added: I see you have been at this for a long time - longer than me. I apologize for not realizing that. Still, my comments are based on discussions with PBS and Bob Burkhart, and I understand they are well plugged-in to the consensus discussions. DavidBrooks (talk) 22:35, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

That's fine — I was just basing my work on that of others before me e.g. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:EB1911_-_Volume_01.djvu/901 used “curly quotes” in 2011. I'd done previous work on the DNB, they didn't use "straight quotes" in their text then. One of the comments on the WikiProject page you mentioned was “We are aiming to reproduce the text as printed” (2006) — is that still the case? But happy to conform with consensus views. Diverman (talk) 22:52, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

I believe the consensus is more subtle now; it's more like "be faithful to the content but think like a contemporary printer". There are IMO already too many Talk pages to track in this project (not to mention Scriptorium where I dare not tread), but the most recent discussion is in Wikisource talk:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Style Manual, near the end of page. When I say "discussion", I mean I asked some questions and some of them were answered. And WS:MOS is the master consensus. I was happy with curly apostrophes (they are really easy to enter using the Win8 onscreen keyboard) but MOS seems to trend against them. My current rules are: no extraneous space markup, straight apos but curly quotes, polytonic for Greek. Feel free to enter the discussion. And this reminds me I intended to expand the images help text. DavidBrooks (talk) 03:40, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

hi, thanks for the work on EB1911 Page:EB1911 - Volume 04.djvu/701. volume 4 has articles already proofread in article space, and i’m copy pasting them over onto page space with a transclusion. volumes 14-28 need a lot of love. Slowking4♡Farmbrough's revenge 15:30, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

hi, thanks for the referencing at english wikipedia. only 5,789 articles to go. i would do more there, but an admin is reverting my references. i’ve moved on, but will try to work on wikisource EB articles periodically. Slowking4 ‽ T A L K 12:41, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi Slowking4, thanks also for your work on EB1911. Who is the admin on Wikipedia reverting your edits? Maybe I'll have a quiet work with them. DivermanAU (talk) 02:24, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

well , i have a list here [1] (the bottom of the list is put back by others) but i wouldn’t bother. he’s a vandal fighter, and beyond reason. Slowking4 ‽ T A L K 02:39, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Contributor initials

Looking at your update to Page:EB1911 - Volume 04.djvu/113, you may not be aware of Template:EB1911 footer initials. In this case: {{EB1911 footer initials|Edmond Warre|E. Wa}}. That helps with consistent formatting. There's still a bug that I hope some HTML wizard can fix: it does leave a fairly large vertical margin, but if you include it on the same line as a Small Print section, the latter's line spacing can be broken. Also, someone started producing per-contributor templates (see Category:EB1911 contributor templates), but I think the community voted against continuing with them, and in any case they have ended up with redundant parentheses (I fixed a few). DavidBrooks (talk) 16:28, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the tip. I only became aware of the footer initials template recently. I added it to my User:Diverman page — where I have a few templates/tips for myself — shortly before your note. I'll make use of it.

For me, the best tip I read was one recently was to use the EB1911 text from Project Gutenberg (I right-click and choose "View Page Source") for use in the Wikisource EB1911 pages. I recorded a couple of macros in Notepad++ to automate the conversion of the HTML tags for: ’ ” <i>italic words</i> etc. into: ' ” ''italic words''. A little more formatting and you have a proofed page! Diverman (talk) 20:19, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Diverman and DivermanAU

Just confirming that Diverman and DivermanAU are both my accounts in Wikipedia and in Wikisource. As explained I was prompted to change my account from Diverman, I didn't really want to, but I did anyway as I didn't think there was a choice. DivermanAU (talk) 02:20, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Greek, and hairspace

I noticed a couple of recent changes you made:

• {{Greek}} to {{Polytonic}}: someone a few months ago (PBS?) pointed out that consensus was to use {{Greek}} (at least on wikisource) and the EB1911 Style manual calls for {{Greek}}, but I forget the rationale. The style manual discussion suggests either will do.
• Replacing a literal n-dash with {{–}}. I appreciate your preference for textual fidelity and introducing the hairspace. My concerns are consistency (I have written an awful lot of unadorned ndashes recently) and also that some others may mistake that for a template hyphen and try to copy your markup, resulting in the "clear both margins" operation. The same danger is present with a simple – character, but at least a hyphen is not such a bad substitute. Using &ndash; resolves that ambiguity, but again consensus is strongly against using html entities. Do you want to argue for consistent use of the template? See also a note by EncycloPetey on Wikisource talk:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. DavidBrooks (talk) 22:06, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

ETA - yes, I use the {{―}} template a lot (that's an mdash) because I find the hair-space stops the ink bleeding from the dash to the letters around it. But apparently the village pump is, or was, also discussing deprecation of that template. There is still not a full consensus on visual fidelity, but I would point out that photographic fidelity is not possible (who has that typeface in their browser?) and what's important is semantic fidelity. DavidBrooks (talk) 23:11, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi DavidBrooks, I was going on your advice from an earlier discussion (28 February 2015) on this page where you had as your rule "polytonic for Greek". I thought the use of polytonic was encouraged because it displays the accents etc. of Ancient Greek better. There's no indication on the Polytonic template page or discussion page that Greek should be used instead. I wasn't aware of the consensus change. I also wasn't aware of the other issues for the ndash and mdash templates. I thought the templates were there to solve issues. DivermanAU (talk) 07:53, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

You should probably take these discussions back to the project talk page. I get the advice from PBS and EncycloPetey, who have been in this space a long time and are tuned into the wiki-wide discussions.

The Greek and Polytonic templates have the same purpose, to render using a more appropriate typeface and mark the language using lang html tags, and on my screen they have an identical result. The difference in implementation is that Polytonic embeds the font family list using {{Polytonic fonts}} (to my mind, this refactoring makes it more flexible, and the extra computing cost is negligible). As a result "Greek" uses style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, Athena, Gentium, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, Code2000, sans-serif;", and "Polytonic fonts" uses "Athena, Gentium, 'Palatino Linotype', 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Code2000". I don't know what DejaVu adds; it's not on my Windows 8.1 box and I use Palatino Linotype. So, really, right now the choice of template seems to be personal preference, unless the community has plans to change one of them. Both names are slightly misleading. "Greek" is easier to type. "Polytonic" seems to imply "use polytonic characters" but actually the character code determines that. It's really "use the font that was conventional during the time before Monotonic became standard in Greece". DavidBrooks (talk) 13:50, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

EB1911 Fine Print size

Copied from Page:EB1911 - Volume 04.djvu/404 -

--font 100% --

See the articles on Arya, Samaj, Keshub Chunder Sen, Ram Mohan Roy. Also John Robson, Hinduism and Christianity; and the Theistic Quarterly Review (the organ of the Society since 1880).

-- EB1911 Fine Print (shown at original size of 85%)--

See the articles on Arya, Samaj, Keshub Chunder Sen, Ram Mohan Roy. Also John Robson, Hinduism and Christianity; and the Theistic Quarterly Review (the organ of the Society since 1880).

--fontsize 90 --

See the articles on Arya, Samaj, Keshub Chunder Sen, Ram Mohan Roy. Also John Robson, Hinduism and Christianity; and the Theistic Quarterly Review (the organ of the Society since 1880).

--fontsize 95 --

See the articles on Arya, Samaj, Keshub Chunder Sen, Ram Mohan Roy. Also John Robson, Hinduism and Christianity; and the Theistic Quarterly Review (the organ of the Society since 1880).

I believe the EB1911 Fine Print template shows the text too small (based on my measurements of the scanned book, the font size of the Fine Print is about 95%. DivermanAU (talk) 02:51, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Updated scripts

Hi DivermanAU. I edited your common.js to update you to the latest version of TemplateScript. You were using a much older version called regex menu framework, so you should notice a lot of improvements. A few of the big changes:

	regex menu framework	TemplateScript
regex editor	✓	✓ an improved regex editor which can save your patterns for later use
compatibility	unknown	✓ compatible with all skins and modern browsers
custom scripts	limited	✓ much better framework for writing scripts
supported views	edit	✓ add templates and scripts for any view (edit, block, protect, etc)
keyboard shortcuts	✘	✓ add keyboard shortcuts for your templates and scripts

Let me know if anything breaks. :) —Pathoschild 16:37, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

most templates don't handle an equals

With templates if you need to use an equals, then you need to do a little work with the sign. Either use the template {{=}} (and look how I have to do that in the code) or force the positional parameter, {{smaller|1=sometimes you need to force an = sign}} eg. sometimes you need to force an = sign. What is happening there is that the equals sign is telling the template that all the stuff before the equals is a parameter called 'whatever you had'. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:42, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

EB1911 Braces.

I just want to say thank you personally for starting the integration of braces to eb1911, it's one of the few projects I feel dedicated to work on. Some of the titles of articles run over the maximum length of braces, such as "andrew of Longjumeau" on page xxvi, along with others scattered throughout. I've made a temporary fix by simply shrinking the font, is there a better way that you can think of? Legofan94 (talk) 15:45, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Legofan94, glad to see you noticed the braces. I saw you had made some brace additions too, so thanks! I had a look at djvu/25 - when I edited and removed the small font and previewed, "Andrew of Longjumeau" looked OK to me - it was still all on one line. I used both Chrome and IE11 on Windows 7 to do that and it looked OK on both. I’ve now used thinspaces "& thinsp;" for his entry to see if it make a difference for you. (Did you try different zoom levels in your browser?) I think the longer-term fix (if it’s an issue on some browsers) would be to edit "Template:EB1911 contributor table/entry" and change the width of the subjects column — it’s currently at 15em. (I think the Initials column also needs widening slightly as some four-letter initials do wrap-around; I have used the thinspace work-around on some of those.) I’ll take a look, I think I can use a width like 15.5em. Keep up the good work! 

I also had a go at having a large brace span multiple subject, rows see Page:EB1911 - Volume 01.djvu/24 (under author A. C. L.) it works OK but had to use the literal code from the template. I'll see if there’s another way. — DivermanAU (talk) 18:05, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Well Longjumeau's bracket looks alright, except since I'm using an Acer Chromebook with a roughly 10 inch screen, I have to scroll out to 67% to see it fully. And even when I'm zoomed out this far, it does nothing to affect some other longer titles, including "American War of Independence: Naval Operations". I agree; The best choice would be to manually edit the templates code and make it extend out a few centimeters to the left. Another thing, should the title of the first page be changed to a footnote? because I can't think of a way to keep the footnote and bottom running header seperate, while also keeping the header below. --Legofan94 (talk) 18:52, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Changes to Template:EB1911 Shoulder HeadingSmall

Please see Template talk:EB1911 Shoulder Heading#New optional parameters in it I have explained my change to {{EB1911 Shoulder HeadingSmall}} -- PBS (talk) 16:13, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Template:Greek

This template is for the modern form of the language, not for the polytonic script. For that, use {{polytonic}}. This is standard across several projects. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:34, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Double table headers

Hi. With Template:EB1911 contributor table and Template:EB1911 contributor table B/entry there appears to be two heads to the table. They are being reported by the lint error function. It looks to be a serious template and not inviting to a casual fix. Would you mind reviewing. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:46, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi, the first one Template:EB1911 contributor table looks OK to me, I can only see one header. I didn´t ceate that template, I just made one minor edit to it. The second one I also didn't create, I don't pretend to fully understand it, it's just a copy I made of Template:EB1911 contributor table/entry. It does contain a nested table (based on the comment "nested table to hold initials and name/bio" ) that's in there. That may explain why there are two headers, one nested inside another. DivermanAU (talk) 17:47, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

FYI only

This is nothing more than an FYI for your enWP editing. I have found and started on Index:Notable South Australians.djvu, most of the detail looks reasonable for us with regards to notability, though there may be edge cases. At this stage I am just transcribing rather than judging. Unfortunately all scan versions that I found had shitty reproduction of the photographs. {{frown}} I will give you a holler when I have got far enough to start transcluding. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:47, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Stolen images from another scan, not fabulous, images serviceable bar one. Started transcluding Notable South Australians — billinghurst sDrewth 04:53, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Rather than revert, tell me the issue

The revert means that we have a strong of table headers being inserted and not compliant with the rendering system. So tell me the issue that you see with the changed code as I don't see a problem with the page, nor where it is transcluded. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:45, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi billinghurst, I did the revert because it looks you made the same change to that page Page:EB1911 - Volume 08.djvu/6 you made on 12 September which caused the same issue. When you removed elements on that page, it badly affected the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vol 8/Table of contributors page (which transcludes the other page) and "broke" the table display. The page before and after page/6 were displaying OK but page/6 wasn't so that why I fixed it by reverting. DivermanAU (talk) 05:41, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Problem is that the existing breaks other things, and is showing up in lint errors that need resolving. Sometimes I hate these really complex templates that are so tricky to update. :-/ — billinghurst sDrewth 06:33, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

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Category:EB 1911 no volume

I can bot these to add volumes, if you can point (this lazy person) to a simple list of volumes and alpha-contents. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:56, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

and for the interminably lazy, how about for lazy counting ... EB 1911 no volume (0) — billinghurst sDrewth 01:06, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Thanks for offering a bot to fix these up, see below a list of articles needing "|volume=" and which volume. Note some articles relating to Magic e.g. "Talismans and Amulets" may appear to be out-of-order but I've amended these in the list below (they probably should be moved to a sub-article e.g. "Magic/Talismans and Amulets".

• Name,Vol
• Boulogne,4
• Boulogne-sur-Mer,4
• Boulogne-sur-Seine,4
• "Boulton, Matthew",4
• Bound,4
• "Bounds, Beating the",4
• Bounty,4
• "Bourbaki, Charles Denis Sauter",4
• Bourbon,4
• Bourbon l'Archambault,4
• "Bourbon, Charles",4
• Bourbon-Lancy,4
• Bourbonne-les-Bains,4
• "Bourchier, Arthur",4
• "Bourchier, Thomas",4
• "Bourdaloue, Louis",4
• "Bourdon, François Louis",4
• Bourg-en-Bresse,4
• "Bourgeois, Léon Victor Auguste",4
• Bourges,4
• "Bourget, Paul Charles Joseph",4
• "Bourignon, Antoinette",4
• Bourke,4
• "Bourmont, Louis Auguste Victor",4
• Bourne (stream),4
• Bourne (town),4
• "Bourne, Vincent",4
• Bournemouth,4
• Bournonite,4
• Bourrée,4
• "Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de",4
• "Bourrit, Marc Théodore",4
• "Boursault, Edme",4
• Bourse,4
• "Boursse, Esaias",4
• "Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné",4
• "Bouterwek, Friedrich",4
• "Bouthillier, Claude",4
• Bouts-Rimés,4
• "Esquiros, Henri François Alphonse",9
• "Estaing, Charles Hector, Comte d'",9
• Eugenol,9
• Euhemerus,9
• "Eulenspiegel, Till",9
• "Euler, Leonhard",9
• Evil Magic,17
• Examinations,10
• Exarch,10
• Excambion,10
• Excellency,10
• "Frère-Orban, Hubert Joseph Walther",11
• "Gama, Vasco da",11
• Gemini,11
• Germany/History,11
• "Grenville, Sir Richard (naval commander)",12
• "Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron",12
• "Hale, Nathan",12
• "Herculano de Carvalho e Araujo, Alexandre",13
• Hildburghausen,13
• History of Magic,17
• Immanuel ben Solomon,13
• Immersion,13
• "Inchbald, Mrs Elizabeth",13
• Indo-Aryan Languages,13
• Indo-European Languages,13
• Indole,13
• Irnerius,13
• "La Chaussée, Pierre Claude Nivelle de",16
• "La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne",16
• "La Salle, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de",16
• "Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste Henri",16
• Lahore,16
• "Lanessan, Jean Marie Antoine de",16
• "Lathrop, Francis",16
• "Lawson, Cecil Gordon",16
• "Lawson, Sir John",16
• "Lawson, Sir Wilfrid",16
• "Legouvé, Gabriel Jean Baptiste Ernest Wilfrid",16
• "Legros, Alphonse",16
• "Lescure, Louis Marie Joseph, Marquis de",16
• Lincoln (Illinois),16
• Lincoln (Nebraska),16
• "Lincoln Judgment, The",16
• "Lindsey, Theophilus",16
• "Lister, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron",16
• Louvain,17
• "Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron",17
• "Machiavelli, Niccolò",17
• Magic and Demonology,17
• Magic and Divination,17
• Magic and Science,17
• Magical Rites,17
• Magicians,17
• Magico-Religious Force,17
• "Manning, Henry Edward",17
• Michigan City,18
• "Michigan, Lake",18
• "Michigan, University of",18
• Michmash,18
• Michoacán,18
• "Mickiewicz, Adam",18
• "Mickle, William Julius",18
• Millennium,18
• Momein,18
• "Mommsen, Theodor",18
• "Montrose, Marquesses and Dukes of",18
• Negative Magic,17
• "Numbers, Book of",19
• Origin of Magic,17
• "Oxe, Peder",20
• "Oxenbridge, John",20
• "Oxenham, Henry Nutcombe",20
• Oxenstjerna,20
• "Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da",20
• Pallium,20
• "Paul, the Apostle",20
• "Peacham, Henry",21
• "Peckham, John",21
• "Pendleton, Edmund",21
• Psychology of Magic,17
• "Quay, Matthew Stanley",22
• "Raabe, Wilhelm",22
• Rain-making,17
• Ram,22
• Ramaḍān,22
• "Rambaud, Alfred Nicolas",22
• "Rameau, Jean Philippe",22
• "Rowland, Henry Augustus",23
• Rules and Abbreviations,23
• "Scotland, Church of",24
• "Scotland, Episcopal Church of",24
• "Scott, Alexander",24
• "Scott, David",24
• "Sickingen, Franz von",24
• St Paul (Minnesota),24
• "Stenbock, Magnus Gustafsson, Count",25
• "Stumpf, Johann",25
• Sturdza,25
• Sture,25
• Sympathy,17
• Talismans and Amulets,17
• The Magic of Names,17
• Theories of Magic,17
• Uighur,27
• "Uist, North and South",27
• Uitenhage,27
• Ujest,27
• Ujiji,27
• Ujjain,27
• Ujvidék,27
• Ukaz,27
• Ukraine,27
• Ulundi,27
• "Vespucci, Amerigo",27
• Voiron,28
• "Voisenon, Claude Henri de Fuzée, Abbé de",28
• "Wren, Sir Christopher",28

DivermanAU (talk) 20:28, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

I have added a volume to all the EB1911 articles in the category "EB 1911 no volume". It leaves the category still populated with about 400 non-article pages. -- PBS (talk) 22:13, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Greek transliterations

In this edit (thanks!) you provided some Greek transliterations. I provided some in my new Wikipedia article w:Origins of ecclesiastical vestments, but they differ. I know no classical or modern Greek beyond the alphabet, but I used the guidance in Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Greek)#Transliteration. There are some differences: notably I didn't use the stress marks on internal vowels, and collapsed ei (and didn't have the embedded mark) in en'cheírion. Is there a different transliteration guidance for Wikisource, or am I not understanding all the details? DavidBrooks (talk) 17:32, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi! I use this website: http://transliterate.com/ which seems to provide an accurate and quick transliteration (I believe more accurate too than that used by the Gutenberg proofers of EB1911). The website also transliterate Hebrew. It's my no. 1 resource for Greek αλφάβητο transliteration. :) DivermanAU (talk) 20:49, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

One of the best written guides is on Wiktionary at wikt:Wiktionary:Ancient_Greek_transliteration. I don't know how transliterate.com compares to the recommendations there. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:55, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks EncycloPetey; that's an interesting guide, though it doesn't seem to cover the various diacritics (which can change the pronunciation a lot) in Ancient Greek as used in the EB1911. e.g. Using http://transliterate.com/ , Ὴετά transliterates as Ḕetá ; Ηετα as Ēeta ; and Ἡετᾁ as Hēethāi. The main thing I like about transliterate.com is you can just copy a whole phrase in Greek and have it quickly transliterated (I don't understand Greek, so it does it for me). DivermanAU (talk) 22:54, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

I think a summary of the above is: there is no Wikisource-specific guidance, and perhaps there should be (follow wikt, use transliterate,com, other?). It wouldn't necessarily be the same as the Wikipedia guidance because the context is very different. And the rules might depend on the age of the source itself. Did I over-complicate? DavidBrooks (talk) 23:55, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

You can use the already-proofed text from Gutenberg

I had a go today at using your drop box downloads for an article "Irrigation". But as far as I can tell that particular "Slice" is missing. I had a go at running you program. I downloaded the HTML onto my machine and it produced an output file starting with Wiki. It has a size but seems to be nothing but white spaces (I do not have a programming environment on the laptop I am using so there is no easy way to see what is actually in the file other than with an editor).

Years ago another editor User:Tim Starling had a 25 gig scan set of EB1911 on Wikisource. Perhaps it would be a good idea to place the files you have in a sub page under the EB1911 Project, or on the Pages space. (This would remove the problems of it affecting you own storage limits on dropbox and I think it would encourage others to make use of them). If you decide to put the pages onto Wikisource, I would suggest that you ask at the scriptorium where would be the most suitable place to put them.

-- PBS (talk) 17:33, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi PBS, not sure what's going on with the conversion script on your laptop, but I've now copied that converted text slice to the Dropbox. I'll look at other places to upload my converted text files, but so far they total only around 85MB.

If you'd like any other slices converted let me know. DivermanAU (talk) 22:41, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. As it happens I used have notepad++ my laptop (although I prefer vi[m] which I do not have), but the file size is apparently too large for notepad++. I'll look into it further. -- PBS (talk) 13:28, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Britannica section headings

Hi DivermanAU. I'm a newbie so sorry if I'm interfering. I noticed one of your edits to EB1911 had affected transclusion, and wanted to draw my comment Wikisource:Scriptorium/Help#Proofreading_EB1911,_transclusion_and_section_headings to your attention. Thanks. --Cedders (talk) 11:17, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Cedders, thanks for pointing that out. I usually check pages I've edited for changed section tags, looks like I didn't check that page. I also found the tag was changed for Masdeu, Juan Francisco so I fixed that one too. DivermanAU (talk) 11:31, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Use of ḥ in Hebrew?

I realize it's been over 2 years, but in this diff to Page:EB1911 - Volume 01.djvu/466, you rendered the latinized Hebrew for AHAB with a ḥ (Latin Small Letter H with Dot Below). I have no clue at all about 1911's Hebrew conventions, but to me the original looks like a simple smudge. It's also present in the archive.org copy, but that could be the same blemish. Do you know if ḥ is actually correct? DavidBrooks (talk) 21:43, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi David, I checked again at https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri01chisrich#page/428/mode/1up — it looks quite clear to me. But I also did some research and found this at Wiktionary/ḥ "In transliterations from foreign scripts (e.g., Hebrew, Arabic) to Latin script..." So it looks legitimate. Funny coincidence — I was editing Page:EB1911 - Volume 01.djvu/174 when I saw your notification - part of the edit was to add dots below (four instances of "Aḥiḳar")! DivermanAU (talk) 22:16, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

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Vol. 12 edit conflict

Sorry about edit conflict. I shall avoid any edits to vol. 12 until 2 January 2020 (or a later date if you indicate one).Suslindisambiguator (talk)

Migrations for articles in EB1911 vol. 12

Looking at https://tools.wmflabs.org/checker/?db=enwikisource_p&title=Index:EB1911_-_Volume_12.djvu shows that we have numbers of pages that are not transcluded, so presumably they are the direct text only articles, and we should be looking to move them to be transcluded. Something that you would consider doing? — billinghurst sDrewth 00:56, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I've been working on those today!  :) DivermanAU (talk) 00:57, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe‎

hi, saw your redirect [2] don't know why you would spell a French name, by the English article, see also https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9nelon , and also https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Guyon but it can be both ways, very confusing https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Motte --cheers. Slowking4 ⚔ Rama's revenge 22:00, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I see the French spelling, I guess I was just trying to be consistent in the EB1911 articles which have "de la". Initially, I modified the article spelling because Author:François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon had a redlink to the EB1911 article. At least now both spellings end up at an article. DivermanAU (talk) 23:08, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

EB1911 Page Heading spacing

I see here that you added an em-space to parameter 4 of {{EB1911 Page Heading}} (I originated that template). Does that help to center the title properly? If so, should we maybe make it the default value of parameter 4? I never did figure out how to make the centering always work. DavidBrooks (talk) 00:32, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi David, I usually add spacing to the header to center the subject, but the spacing depends on how many numerals are in the page number. In the example you gave the page number is 366 and with three numerals, a spacing of 1.6 ems is almost exactly {em|1.6} (using the {{em}} template). I used a plain space and an emspace as a good approximation without using another template on that page. If it's a single-digit page number, an enspace is a good approximation; emspace for two-digits. And, of course, depending on whether the page is the left-hand or right-hand side, the spacing is parameter 1 or 4. DivermanAU (talk) 01:28, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

align=center in tables

Hi! Just a quick note: the HTML attribute align=center in tables is deprecated and can cause problems, for example in rendering engines that only use the modern CSS constructs. It's better to use the CSS style style="margin:auto;" (or the shorthand {{ts|ma}}). Inductiveload—talk/contribs 11:36, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll use style="margin:auto;" from now on. (Note to self that style="margin:auto;" doesn't work as a substitute for //\center\// use
<div style="text-align: center;">...</div> instead.) DivermanAU (talk) 20:21, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

EB11 Entries from PG

There are a bunch of entries at Category:Works_possibly_copied_from_Project_Gutenberg flagged as coming from EB11. Are you planning on transcluding over them? In other words, can we remove the link or wait a bit? Languageseeker (talk) 19:43, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

It looks like many of these EB1911 articles are already transcluded. Any that aren't will be transcluded at some stage. In nearly all cases, Gutenberg text has been used to help proof the article, not just a straight copy. So I believe the links can be removed (if you mean removing them from the category. DivermanAU (talk) 19:51, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mechanics

I found 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mechanics in Category:Pages with math errors. I think it has too many pages, as there are no math errors there. There is, however, a "traffic jam" at the end 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mechanics#1006 will get you to the jam.

I think it is too big. I had it split into "Kinetic" and "Static" but then I saw "Applied" and just quit the split. If I could remember where I saw a split EB1911 article (for the example), I would have split it into those three, awkward as it is. Splitting into "Theoretical" and "Applied" leaves one sentence (pretty much) on the Mechanics page.

Have you ever split an article up? Or, have you seen a split article and remember which one it was?--RaboKarbakian (talk) 03:02, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@RaboKarbakian: Thanks for pointing out the size issue. Article is now split. DivermanAU (talk) 22:07, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

That's great! I knew there were not any rendering errors.... --RaboKarbakian (talk) 22:38, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

disambiguate at root

Hi. Rather than 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Perseus can you please disambiguate at Perseus. The community discussed these types of disambiguations and came to this preference. The reasoning was that as the subpages of a work were going to be listed elsewhere within the work and didn't need that separate disambiguation; and if it was necessary then we should do it at root, so that we were capturing all works of the name. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:41, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Done! — DivermanAU (talk) 21:47, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Missing Fig. 51 in EB1911 "Lighthouse"

Hi,

Page:EB1911 - Volume 16.djvu/668 references File:EB1911 - Lighthouse - Fig. 51.—Courtenay's Automatic Whistling Buoy.jpg which doesn't exist, but I see you did upload File:EB1911 - Lighthouse - Fig. 51.—Courtenay’s Automatic Whistling Buoy.jpg (i.e. the same but for a curly single quotation mark). Typo on upload I'm guessing? Xover (talk) 10:28, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

@Xover: it seems @ShakespeareFan00:’s edit of 6 February 2022 broke the display of that image which was previously working (by changing a curly to straight quote mark). I've now restored the name of the image to that of my edit of 31 October 2020 so it displays again. ShakespeareFan00, can you please not change curly to straight apostrophes in EB1911? I've been making the case for using curly apostrophes (and previously there was a robot changing straight apostrophes to curly ones). The EB1911 Style manual says “In Arabic and Hebrew words it is preferable to use curly apostrophes ’ where they exist to distinguish them from the reversed commas ʽ. ” I believe it is best to be consistent in EB1911 and use curly apostrophes throughout (this matches the look of the printed page and is also in line with the decision to use curly double quotes). DivermanAU (talk) 11:19, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

I've no particular opinion on the straight/curly issue for EB1911, but just as a "FYI" we generally do not use "fancy" characters (like curly quotes) in page names and, by extension, in file names. The kind of problem that happened in this instance being a prime reason why. In such instances I usually request renaming of the file at Commons (if the file is in use they leave a redirect behind so the move is transparent). In any case, thanks for sorting out the issue with Fig. 51! Xover (talk) 12:12, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks.. I have my suspicions those changes were down to the CleanupOCR script. Please let me know if you find other examples.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Mis-commented sections....

Hi..

As a partly pragmatic response to something raised by what you mentioned elsewhere. {{remarks}}

The idea behind creating this is to move certain comments to being {{remarks}} so that pages with them can be tracked, and so that admins/contributors have a category to exclude when trying to find mis-commented pages like the one you mentioned previously. Checking 33,000 pages manually for comment tags is prohibitively time consuming. However searching a few 100 page when most of the actuall comments or annotations have been converted would be easier.

If possible, I think the remarks template should possibly be extended so that it can have timestamped data about the user that added it. However, I wasn't sure how that could be added automatically. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:28, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Pages tag

If you find more of these , don't worry about informing me, just fix it.

I've now checked through all the relevant conversion in my contributions. I do not think there are any problem conversions left. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:37, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

Quality reviews...

@DivermanAU: https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/checkpages and https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/EBcheckpages if you wanted to check alongside, my efforts. Asking me to recheck 9000 or so pages manually is not feasible, without a potential for further missed errors. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:09, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Quality reviews...(part 2)

You might find using - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:PerfektesChaos/js/lintHint is useful. I have it installed and it's helped locate all manner of unpaired templates, and unclosed formatting :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks , I've now added it to my common.js page. DivermanAU (talk) 21:24, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

I am trying to see if I can come up with some other pywikibot queries to find things as well, do you have any specific patterns you are looking for? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:34, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00:, I added lintHint OK and I can see it as an option (just under the search box) on article pages e.g. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Drowning and Life Saving, but on "pages" e.g. Page:EB1911 - Volume 08.djvu/619 it doesn't show. Is this expected behaviour, or do I need to configure something else? thanks. DivermanAU (talk) 22:23, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Depending on the configuration , Lint Hint want show the button if it can't find errors in the page, or when run in edit mode in the 'body' of the Page:. There is some configuration information on the page at Wikipedia. The difference between the Page: view and edit view is how I determine something is a header/footer generated error BTW. ShakespeareFan00 (talk)

Also you have to load it directly outside of other functions IIRC, See my common.js ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 06:18, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @ShakespeareFan00:, that worked! I copied the lintHint lines from your common.js. Now it shows when I edit a "page" — although it incorrectly displays a "Missing end tag" warning if I have {{EB1911 fine print/s}} in the Page body and {{EB1911 fine print/e}} in the Footer. Also, no need for more 'thanks' for my edits. :) DivermanAU (talk) 10:26, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

@DivermanAU: Noted. Apologies for any that I've sent you between your above message, and me noting it in my inbox/notifcations. ShakespeareFan00 (talk)

BTW See below for a query that might be useful. If you know about pywikibot and PAWS, you might be able to work out other search patterns for common fixes as well. ( For some of my page conversions, and cleanup I used AutoWikiBrowser quite a lot.) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:03, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

@DivermanAU: , The behaviour in edit space is a known limitation. If you want to have a different behaviour you would have to find someone with the EMCAscript skills to change what get's submitted to the back-end. Having an option to check the entire page from edit mode (i.e with the noincludes) would be useful of course. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:07, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Quality reviews...(part 3)

This might be useful: - https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/EBql4missingtags

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:36, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @ShakespeareFan00: I looked at some of these, nearly all just have {{EB1911 fine print/e}} missing in the footer (which doesn't affect the look of the page or the article when transcluded). I fixed these anyway (all the ones from vol. 3). Working on fixing other pages now. DivermanAU (talk) 11:34, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

EB1911 Pages that appear not to be backed by scans...

The following PAWS link was a query I generated earlier:- https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/checkpages_IP

@ShakespeareFan00: thanks for this list! I've already started to transclude these articles. Although some are already transcluded — they use {{#tag:pages...}} format instead of <pages... />, I'm converting those to <pages /> format. e.g. Allen, Ethan. — DivermanAU (talk) 23:06, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

EB1911 - Contributors..

I added a few of these when i saw them beeing needed. Was this okay? ( Do you have a general fixes list?) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:02, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Thanks for adding those, looks good! I don't have a fix list. DivermanAU (talk) 10:13, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Re contributors : https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/nocontributor_line ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:24, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Thanks! Wow - a long list. DivermanAU (talk) 12:08, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Custom font size for smallrefs

Just to let you know, the 90% font-size for {{smallrefs}} in EB1911 is no longer necessary to specify explicitly (cf. this). The default 83% font size is overridden by a per-work default font size of 90% set in Index:EB1911 - Volume 01.djvu/styles.css (which is shared for all EB1911 volumes). For other works a similar style rule will have to be specified if needed, but you should generally let the default be (EB1911 is an exception with its own style guide; most works should use the default values for things like {{smallrefs}}). Xover (talk) 07:46, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

@Xover. Great! Thanks for that. DivermanAU (talk) 18:54, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

@Xover: However, when transcluding, the 90% default does not carry over. I just edited Nabataeans and the default size for {{smallrefs}} is smaller than when choosing 90% explicitly. DivermanAU (talk) 12:03, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

It should apply on transclusion too. I’ll take a look when I’m in front of a computer again. Xover (talk) 14:03, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. There were multiple bugs in other components that together conspired to make this not work. Xover (talk) 17:59, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Excellent! I confirmed it works OK now, thanks. DivermanAU (talk) 18:25, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Text from theodora.com

Using text from any other source whatsoever is using secondary transcriptions, which has been forbidden (from WS:WWI: Wikisource no longer accepts any new texts from Project Gutenberg, or similar second-hand transcriptions of any sort). I'm sorry, as it looks like this would have been useful for EB1911, but eh. — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 22:35, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I don't use the text from other sources, but I do a compare—which often picks up typo errors. DivermanAU (talk) 06:34, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I thought you replaced the text from theodora's, before basing yourself upon that. All good, then. Cheers, — Alien333 ( what I did
why I did it wrong ) 13:14, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

No worries. FYI I use Earwig's Copyvio Detector to do a compare between EB1911 wikisource and the theodora version. e.g. https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikisource&title=Page%3AEB1911+-+Volume+21.djvu%2F880&oldid=&use_engine=0&use_links=0&turnitin=0&action=compare&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheodora.com%2Fencyclopedia%2Fp2%2Fpliocene.html

The text from theodora.com is quite good, but it often has errors with numbers, and it doesn't do Greek or Hebrew text. It also doesn't have the line-breaks in the text, which I like to keep in the Wikisource version for easier proofing.--DivermanAU (talk) 13:22, 28 August 2024 (UTC)