User talk:Hrishikes/Archive 2

Index:A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire Chunk 1.djvu

Why was this split into chunks?ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:52, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Answer here. Hrishikes (talk) 13:55, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm willing to attempt a chunked upload of this as a single volume... ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:57, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

OK. Hrishikes (talk) 13:59, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Biographies

I wonder if you know of any other book(s) similar to scope to the following:

• Vidyasagar The Life and After-life of an Eminent Indian (Routledge 2014) by Brian Hatcher.

Basically I am looking for full volume biographies of an Indian subject written by a non-Indian author and published by a well respected academic publisher (university presses and the likes).

I wonder how those authors (like say translators of the w:Murty Classical Library of India) familiarize themselves with Indian languages so deeply. Each of the author’s learning experience should be a decent story itself! Solomon7968 (talk) 17:53, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

@Solomon7968:

• Index:Rabindranath Tagore - A Biographical Study.djvu
• Index:The Life and Work of Sir Jagadis C. Bose.djvu
• Index:Ramakrishna - His Life and Sayings.djvu
• Index:The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy.djvu
• Index:The Master as I Saw Him.djvu
• Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker by w:W. Andrew Robinson (1, 2)

Hrishikes (talk) 03:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Sorry I should have mentioned this earlier but I am looking for more modern books. The last book you mentioned suits me well, but I already knew about the rest (following links here). On a side note I notice there is no author page here of Vidyasagar. You might be in a better position to create it. Solomon7968 (talk) 03:47, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

@Solomon7968: There are two other old books: The Life of Ramakrishna and The Life Of Vivekananada And The Universal Gospel by Romain Rolland (available in DLI). About new books, I'll need to check. May also see w:Category:Indian biographies. Best, Hrishikes (talk) 05:25, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Hyphenated words in Panchatantra

Hullo, I've noticed couple of pages in Index:Panchatantra.djvu where you've put the first half of hyphenated words in the pages' footers. I just thought I'd draw your attention to the {{Hyphenated word start}} template. :-) Thanks for all your hard work too, by the way. — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 05:45, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

@Samwilson: I picked that up from Big B; earlier I used to go for hws. Hrishikes (talk) 05:48, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Ah, well I shall not look askance then! Although, @Billinghurst:, could you explain the reasoning? I mean, it works of course but is there a reason we almost always use {{hws}}? — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 05:51, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Back in ye olde times there was an attempt to retain all hyphenation, and some weird obsession (my opinion) for facsimile. This was also back in the early days of Page: ns when we didn't have good header and footer capability so there was a need to have the means to hide in page, and extending display in main ns. The template has continued to be used without review. I choose to not continue an archaic practice in the works where I am the first transcriber and it generates little value. I neither advocate for other users to do or not to do, their choice where they are first transcriber. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:07, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Hm, sounds sensible. Not to mention quicker, which is nice. — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 01:51, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

voy:Wikivoyage:Joke articles/Interdimensional travel

As one of English Wikisource's contributors with an interest in oriental sources, I was wondering if you could make some contributions or suggestions, so as to balance out any percived anglo-centric bias in the article. Most of whats been added is from a British/US perspective so far, and it would be nice to add some content inspired by "Eastern" sources. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:14, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: I had mentioned in voy:Wikivoyage:Joke articles/Time travel#India: Space travel can also be arranged in King Kakudmi's spaceship upto Brahmapura. Remember the time dilation factor, however, which means that you may find on your return that centuries have elapsed. This is an example of interdimensional travel, a very good example. You can include it, taking details from the linked articles in Wikipedia. Travels to w:Vaikuntha, w:Patala, travels of w:Nachiketa, w:Parashurama and w:Behula may also be described as interdimensional. Hrishikes (talk) 11:22, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

If you want to attempt adding a section, feel free. I added a spiritual section to either the See or Do sections where something could be added, but an "expert" doing it would be appreciated, Thanks :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:34, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Biographies followup

Did you got a chance to check the newer biographies I mentioned earlier? Solomon7968 (talk) 10:44, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Details on scope please. Hrishikes (talk) 12:28, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

See #Biographies. There is a biographical dictionary by Subodhchandra Sengupta. Any "full volume biography published by a well respected academic publisher (university presses and the like)" on any subject who has got entry in the aforementioned biographical dictionary suits me well. Solomon7968 (talk) 13:15, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Are you referring to this dictionary? Would books like w:The Springing Tiger fit the bill? How about this book? Hrishikes (talk) 13:26, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Yeah same dictionary. But thanks for the PDF link, I wasn’t aware the book is available online. The Springing Tiger however is too old and not-very-academic for my taste. You might be aware of w:Leonard A. Gordon’s biography of NSCB which suits me better. The Seely biography also suits me. Solomon7968 (talk) 13:43, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

I'll see around. However, a more extensive dictionary is Dictionary of National Biography 4 vols. You want only works written by foreigners (e.g. 1) or by Indians too? (e.g. 1, 2) Hrishikes (talk) 15:07, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

1. Keshub Chunder Sen: a search for cultural synthesis (1977) by Meredith Borthwick
2. Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India (1976) by Blair B. Kling
3. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay : an intellectual biography (2008) by w:Amiya Prosad Sen
4. Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1977) by Subodh Chandra Sengupta
5. A poet apart: a literary biography of the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das, (1899-1954) (1990) by w:Clinton B. Seely

Thank you for this list, I didn’t know about them. Can you take your time to add those to W:Bibliography of India#Biography. Btw what is the full name of S. P. Sen, the editor of the work you mentioned? Solomon7968 (talk) 03:32, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Siba Pada Sen. Hrishikes (talk) 03:43, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Some reference works from Sahitya Akademi:

1. Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M
2. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 1
3. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 2
4. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 3
5. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 5
6. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Supplementary entries and index

More:

1. Recritiquing Rabindranath Tagore (2006) by Samiran Kumar Paul, Amar Nath Prasad
2. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (1989) by w:W. Andrew Robinson (2nd ed: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker, 2004)
3. The Bengalees: Glimpses of History and Culture (1999) by Samaren Roy
4. M.N. Roy: A Political Biography (1997) by Samaren Roy
5. The father of modern India: Commemoration volume of the Rammohun Roy centenary celebraton, 1933 (1935) by Rammohun Roy Centenary Committee
6. India's First Communist (1988) by Samaren Roy
7. Bengal renaissance: the first phase (2000) by Sibnarayan Ray
8. The Twice-born Heretic, M.N. Roy and Comintern (1986) by Samaren Roy
9. Vidyasagar: The Life and After-life of an Eminent Indian (2014) by Brian A. Hatcher

Index:National Building Code of India 2005.djvu

Are you sure this has the correct license, I seem to recall the source listed at Commons, having a rather "liberal" attitude when it came to "standards", which in contrast with the approach taken on Commons may be a problem? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:48, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

Right, I've withdrawn the concerns based on your explanation, The listed source has posted other standards, will you be uploading other pre 2016 documents? (including historical material)? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:45, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

No, the others are fragments of this one. Hrishikes (talk) 10:44, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Pagelists

Can you add pagelists for some of the source works you uploded?, which still need them. I can't touch most of the remaining ones for copyright reasons, being UK based. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:50, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Which ones? Hrishikes (talk) 10:46, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Most of the remainder of the following Category : Category:Index - File to check in particular:-

• Index:Ancient Indian Education, an inquiry into its origin, development, and ideals.djvu - Pub 1918 (but author (British) died in 1974)
• Index:A History of Hindi Literature.djvu - Pub 1920 - (British author died in 1974).
• Index:Indian Historical Studies.djvu - Pub 1913 - (British author died in 1957).
• Index:Intercourse between India and the Western World, from the earliest times to the Fall of Rome.djvu - Pub 1916 - (British Author died in 1957)
• Index:O Douglas - Olivia in India.djvu - No file ?
• Index:Stories of India's Gods & Heroes.djvu No data on author death, published 1911, but Illustrator died in 1963
• Index:The Music of India.djvu - Pub 1912 - Author - Assumed British given front page in work died in 1960.

I would also very strongly suggest you carefully re-check and confirm the copyright status of these outside the US, as based on a life+70 term some of them may still be copyright in the UK, and thus possibly (not-withdtanding the pre 1922 publication dates) potentially problematic for Commons, if they were not at some point published in the US (Confirmation of US publication would be something to mention on the relevant pages.) Files are not at Commons. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:09, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

The other 2 multi-volume series in the category are seemingly copyright OK, but there seem to be some page numbering anomalies that need to be resolved.

I am working on getting the one series of volumes you did not upload ( the NIE volumes) pagelist checked at the moment.

An effort to finally empty the Category would be greatly appreciated. :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:09, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Please do some homework before commenting. All those files are locally hosted, not in Commons, except Stories of India's Gods & Heroes, in which case, the work was published from New York. Hrishikes (talk) 14:50, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

I do my homework as well, and checked where the files were hosted after the above was posted, all expect the New York edition (which we can for these purposes assume is PD US) you mention are local. Thusly you've provided the confirmation needed, already. Apologies. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:53, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Index:The Religions of the World Vol 1.djvu

This work also needs a pagelist. I'll see if it's possible to generate a list of known contributors.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:23, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Dropped a partial contributor list (mostly extracted from the preface/ToC) here - Index_talk:The_Religions_of_the_World_Vol_1.djvu. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:59, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: These contributors did not have copyright. All rights were reserved (see the colophon) by the organisers of the conference: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. Copyright expired 50 years after publication, as per the then law. Hrishikes (talk) 17:46, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

That was what I expected, I dropped the contributor list to the talkpage so that the creation of [[Author:]] pages could be tracked ( and so a simple link can be put in the Author field vs an extended list..) , There's obviously a number of academics mentioned. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 18:07, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Index:History of India Vol 1.djvu

Re-check requested. See note on Index page, there's a page numbering anomaly I can't easily resolve. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:16, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: The work is ok. p.35 + p. 36 and p. 235 + p.236 are image + blank page (incl. image of a Sanskrit manuscript page). Hrishikes (talk) 15:36, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Index:Twenty-four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal.djvu]

In places the DJVU's very clearly over-compressed stuff.

You were planning on putting mid-res JPG's on Commons? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:45, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: I am going to add the images. Can u pse have a try for deciphering the lower portion of the title page? Hrishikes (talk) 13:51, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm no good at deciphering scanned handwriting, try asking User:MartinPoulter. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:25, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Index:Annals of Rural Bengal Vol 3 (Orissa Vol 2).djvu

See notes pp217, pp218 seem to be missing from the scans.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 00:07, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: Corrected. Hrishikes (talk) 01:37, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Possible collab?

Hello Hrishikes,

Would you like to collaborate with on one of your recently uploaded works with me? ShakespeareFan told me you were working on many, and I think it would be fun. - Tannertsf (talk) 23:32, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

@Tannertsf: Can u have a go at Indian Medicinal Plants Part 1? Text and plates are in separate vols. A typical chapter would look like this, text above, plates below. Another work I am fond of is The Constitution of India (Original Calligraphed and Illuminated Version), a state-of-the-art work, having calligraphed text and illustrations by a team of India's best painters. The calligraphed text being difficult to read, I lift it from the later Gazette version's ocr text from the relevant page. Both works, when completed, would count as important items in this site. Hrishikes (talk) 23:59, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Those look interesting! I'll start on them soon. - Tannertsf (talk) 00:34, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Whoah the formatting on the Constitution is intense. I think I am going to just stick with the Plants text for now. - Tannertsf (talk) 19:12, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

@Tannertsf: So many pages of TOC probably cannot be borne by the dotted TOC template. If the template limit is exceeded, the pages after the thresh-hold won't show up on transclusion. You will probably need to shift to some other template for the later pages, e.g. {{TOC row 1-1-1}} or {{TOCstyle}}. Hrishikes (talk) 00:38, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

That's interesting. I don't know how to do TOC formatting and it took me a good time today to figure out the current format. - Tannertsf (talk) 01:04, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

@Tannertsf:Ha ha!, you wanted a difficult work as I understand? So I lovingly chose these two special hells. (i.e., constitution and plants). Another is A History of Hindu Chemistry Vol 1. Not to worry, you do the chapters, I'll do the TOC later; and also upload the plates. Hrishikes (talk) 01:07, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Hah I like doing the TOC and so thanks for the warning. :D - Tannertsf (talk) 01:18, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

You might have to check on the tables when you validate because I can get them decent looking but not great or organized. - Tannertsf (talk) 18:47, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

{{nop}} placement?

Excuse me but I challenge this edit on the basis of why is it acceptable to so add a {{nop}}—effectively in the middle of a sentence—admittedly continued two pages on—presumably on the basis of an intervening image plate? If the page order were slightly altered in subsequent transclusion, a diligent compositor would have had to re-edit the page to remove a (then nuisance) line break.

I appreciate this is all somewhat theoretical, however should we not take more care to separate mark-up-appropriate-to-the-proof-reading-page from that appropriate to a (particular) final presentation? (My attitude is that the plate pages ought to be formatted such as they should establish their own margins without recourse to formatting on prior pages…but accept that is merely my view.)

Analogous situations arise here and here, with the additional twist of further additional blank pages.

I am probably making too much of this but that reflects my own somewhat undecided status upon this situation—in short I would like to see your reasoning and perspective as well! AuFCL (talk) 21:58, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

@AuFCL: There's no need for challenges or duels. Revert if you wish. I did it as an ad hoc arrangement on reading about problems with image captions on the FT nomination page. I agree that images should be self-sufficient and able to establish their own borders. But when some editor uses some template causing blurring of border, then nop is useful to demarcate the no-man's-land. Moreover, we should not only focus on that particular page. Pages are interlinked, together making a book. So considering what went before and what comes next is also important. Another point is that we should not think that the proofread pages are primary. They are not. They are auxiliary, background matter. Primary is what the reader sees on the main namespace, that's why it is main. So we have to focus on how it will look when transcluded. If transclusion does not look good, any elegance of the background does not matter. Again, revert if you wish. Hrishikes (talk) 02:55, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Many apologies.

I intended "challenge" only in a technical sense; and most certainly not as an affront. I agree with your points (and in fact read the FT commentary—which I do not entirely agree with—only after posting the above to yourself.) I contend this is all border-line stuff and was rather hoping your response might crystallise the issue in my own mind. Your willingness to revert only convinces me further that our views in fact broadly coincide.

In my ideal world both page: space should look as like the scan as possible and main space should give a coherent display and occasionally I am dismayed that little apparent effort is made to achieve these goals simultaneously, even after a successful technique to do so has been demonstrated (this last is a general comment not in any way aimed at yourself.)

Shall we agree to "let sleeping dogs lie"? AuFCL (talk) 08:20, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I could have achieved the desired effect by changing the methods of image display in those pages. Different methods were used, which should not have been done. I did not interfere with the templates because I was just a random user for that work. So feel free to change the page as you desire. Regards, Hrishikes (talk) 13:57, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Likewise I initially adopted a "light touch" on the basis of being a casual visitor to this work. Now that I have seen some of the misbehaving templates in action—in my view normally mis-usage of {{FIS}} in a centred context: either {{FI}} or raw [[File:…|center]] would be better choices in these cases—I suspect adding {{nop}} might not always have been the answer in any case, as the issue most often was best resolved through appropriate addition of either clear CSS directives or a template like {{-}} which achieves the same result. I made a quick sweep through all of the images under this work last night and think I have caught everything important. (To save you searching: here is a typical change.) I welcome you to double check if you so feel inclined. AuFCL (talk) 00:35, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Email

Hi Hrishikes, I've sent you an email. :-) Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 03:20, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

@Ed Erhart (WMF): I have sent u a draft response, to be given a final shape on hearing from u. Hrishikes (talk) 14:47, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Index:The People of India — a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan Vol 3.djvu

Hit the first place where a placeholder might be needed. see note I left.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:23, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Index:Report of a Tour Through the Bengal Provinces of Patna, Gaya, Mongir and Bhagalpur; The Santal Parganas, Manbhum, Singhbhum and Birbhum; Bankura, Raniganj, Bardwan and Hughli in 1872-73.djvu

Hi. Do you have plans to finish transcluding this work? It seems to have stalled though all the pages are now validated. If it is not on your TO DO list, then let me know and I will add it to my list of things to get to when time allows. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 07:30, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I'll do it, but I am a slow worker. Is there any hurry? Hrishikes (talk) 07:52, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Not a hurry. I am just checking as I continue stepping through my maintenance task of checking proofread and validated works. Real evidence is that some works do get forgotten. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:30, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

General thanks + an idea

Firstly an explicit thank-you for being so agreeable to work with.

Secondly (and I hope I am not touching upon a sensitive point) why are you not already an administrator here? I admit this is partially prompted by a recent not-quite-civil-conversation with Billinghurst along the lines of why have I not proposed anybody for the rôle but frankly in my view you are better qualified than a number of individuals I shall not embarrass by mentioning who already are sysops here.

If your thoughts/ambitions extend in this direction I am more than happy to further test the situation. On the other hand if you think this might turn into an unwanted political exercise I also understand. AuFCL (talk) 05:19, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

@AuFCL: I don't think I particularly need the tools for what I do, although I agree that the tools may come handy from time to time. Anyway, I am happy doing what I generally do. Thanks for considering. Hrishikes (talk) 06:53, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Well equally I am not sure the rôle of king(m|bre)aker sits comfortably upon my shoulders either. However if you should ever change your mind, please accept my endorsement as a given. AuFCL (talk) 07:01, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

With respect, thou speakest falsely. AuFCL (talk) 07:58, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

I did mention time to time, I believe? Hrishikes (talk) 12:47, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

You did. Drug on the market perhaps? For that matter I think your circumspection gives you credit. AuFCL (talk) 19:25, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

@AuFCL:, Another page for you here, for the border around the image please. Hrishikes (talk) 14:21, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Had the usual "go" at it. In essence the trick is to enclose the image+frame in a <div> with styling to "reserve" and overall align the display area (and must contain position:relative). The "frame" then becomes another <div> with suitable border, dimensions and offsets, and finally the image is enclosed in a third <div> with styling position:absolute (and possible offsets, though 0 (default) is applicable in this case.) The "absolute" allows the image to overlay the frame, which is why the image itself must be modified (partially) transparent to allow the frame to show through. AuFCL (talk) 19:25, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

@AuFCL: Thanks. I did not experiment with the formatting because I could not apply the background transparency to the image. Hrishikes (talk) 01:04, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Oh. Applying transparency was the one trick I thought I was pretty poor at. I imported your PNG into the GIMP editor; pencilled in enough extra dots to enclose the main image; flood-filled the outside with a temporary colour not used elsewhere, and then used GIMPs "colour to alpha" tool to convert that temporary colour to transparent. Export/save and apply the result as an update to your original image. I am assuming there is a cleverer way but this works well enough for me. AuFCL (talk) 10:15, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Looks complicated. I'll try next time. Hrishikes (talk) 14:01, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Pagelists

If you think they are good to progess , feel free. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:47, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Vidyasagar

Hello. I realise I am probably buying into a hot issue here but just noticed in passing:

1. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Contributors refers to "Vidyasagar, Ismar Chandra"
2. As you already know 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vidyasagar, Ismar Chandra redirects to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Vidyasagar, Iswar Chandra
3. w:Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar refers to "Ishwar Chandra Vidyas"
4. Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work refers to "Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar"

So are all of these truly the same individual; and if so are all of "Ismar", "Iswar", "Ishwar" and "Isvar" acceptable alternate spellings for the relevant portion of the concerned gentleman's name? If so, then no doubt extra redirections are required? Naturally I hope this compilation helps but if it is merely an unwanted can of worms… AuFCL (talk) 02:55, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

@AuFCL: For the dictionary term, see w:Ishvara and wikt:ईश्वर. There is no term as Ismar, that is only a typo. Original Sanskrit spelling: Īśvara, with long i and velar s. Velar s is rendered as s (academic) or sh (popular). The v here is equivalent to Latin v, i.e., English w. Hrishikes (talk) 03:44, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Your explanation more than exceeds expectation! AuFCL (talk) 05:37, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Index:The Origin of the Bengali Script.djvu

So there are no misunderstandings, do you mind if I add a pagelist to this? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:56, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

I have never objected. Hrishikes (talk) 11:43, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Finding a list of contributors for a single Index

Hi. I appreciate your generosity for the "Proofread of the Month July 2016" recognition (although I don't remember my contribution). More importantly, how do you extract the list of contributors of the proofread pages of a single index? — Ineuw talk 16:59, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

@Ineuw: There does exist a script/tool for èxtracting the list of contributors. Mpaa and Beeswaxcandle know about it. I am not techno-savvy, so I checked the edit history of every single page of that index to extract the list. This list is given on the index talk page. Hrishikes (talk) 05:32, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Wow, My hat is off to you. — Ineuw talk 06:08, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

@Ineuw: Both of you: Staring with basic SQL query here; amend ndx.page_title IN ('Great_Neapolitan_Earthquake_of_1857.djvu') to select (list of) Index: item(s) (note no namespace prefix!) you wish to analyse; amend AND (edt.rev_timestamp > '20150201000000' /* Revision/edit */ to specify earliest date after which you wish to look for changes; submit and await response. Useful?

awards for participation

Hello Hrishikes, I'm fairly new at en.wikisource, I contributed in some works recently. I'm not sure if my userpage was able to have the awards for participation. I changed the infobox and hope you can now place the awards for my contributions on How to Keep Bees, Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life, The Mythology of the Aryan Nations and The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma (Birds Vol 1). Thank you so much! Maranatuur (talk) 13:07, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Portal:Bengal

I stumbled across Portal:Indo-Iranian languages and literature today, and noticed that there is no section for the Bengali language. I did find relevant links at Portal:Bengal though. May I suggest that we now have enough Bengali content to warrant the creation of a new Portal:Bengali language and literature that could be linked from both locations? --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:36, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Hmm, what would be the content? Other than history of language and literature, should it contain only works translated/adapted from Bengali (e.g., Tagore or Bankim) or should it also contain creative works by Bengali writers in English (e.g., Toru Dutt or Sarojini Naidu)? Both sets have many books. Hrishikes (talk) 02:24, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

By the LCoC system we use, it should contain books about the Bengali language, books about Bengali literature, and literature originally written in Bengali. Works written in English by authors from Bangladesh would not be included there. Such works would remain at Portal:Bengal and be included in an appropriate category. The "language and literature" is organized by language, not by national boundaries. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:41, 21 November 2016 (UTC)