User talk:Jan.Kamenicek

Lines joined

Lines Joined, is there an instant way to do this without fifty keystrokes? Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 20:54, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes, there is, although sligthly complicated in the beginning–you need to add the following line to your your common.js page:

mw.loader.load('//en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jan.Kamenicek/PageCleanUp.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

As a result you should get a new button above the editing window in the page namespace. Whenever you click that button, it will do some autocorrections, including joining the lines.

For details see Wikisource:Tools and scripts#PageCleanUp. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 21:08, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Be nice if a bot did that for all the DJVUs. Added it in the meantime, not sure if you were the person who showed me <center> vs {{center}} but either way, I'm learning. Would love a quick drive-by help for the two works I'm currently trying to get at least readable if you have a chance. Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 22:29, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

Great, you are learning well. I had a look e. g. at Page:Smiling isle of Passamaquoddy .. (IA smilingisleofpas00thom).pdf/16 where I corrected the way of inserting the image. However, it would be good to improve the image itself too, especially to cut off the caption from the image, which should be transcribed as text instead, see e. g. at Page:The Czechoslovak Review, vol3, 1919.djvu/44. If you won't do it, it can stay like that for some time, but having the caption as text would be much better. If you decide to edit the image, you may also consider its decolouring. The image is supposed to be black and white, the yellowish colour is not the colour of the image itself, it is the colour of the paper, which we usually remove. It is not a crucial thing, so I will leave it up to you.

The page Page:Smiling isle of Passamaquoddy .. (IA smilingisleofpas00thom).pdf/3 is really tricky, I think you will certainly need help with this, so I will try to do it when I have time. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 18:52, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

I left the caption on the image since historical images of these places are likely also of use on Wikipedia or other projects, but I see what you mean about the yellowing...is there a handy button/tool to do it automatically before/after uploading? Fundy Isles Historian - J (talk) 20:09, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Ad caption: I see. In that case the picture can be uploaded twice–with and without the caption–and Wikisource can use the one without. Ad yellow colour: We do not have any tool for that, but most common graphics editors have some option of image decolouring, e. g. in Photoshop it is called "desaturate". --Jan Kameníček (talk) 23:00, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

The self-published translations

Would he be allowed to put them bor speedy deletion under author's request ? -- Beardo (talk) 16:54, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Hm, I did not think about this possibility. Probably a good solution, to stop the useless discussion. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 17:23, 24 January 2025 (UTC)