User talk:Riquix

Proofreading pages

Hi Riquix,

I've gone over a few more pages in Index:The Science of Religion (1925).djvu to illustrate how they should be done. In particular, you may want to keep an eye on line breaks: there should be no hard line breaks inside a paragraph, and two line breaks between paragraphs (hit your return key twice, so there is a single blank line between the paragraphs). The MediaWiki software that Wikisource runs on turns these into HTML code for display in the web browser, so it's necessary to pay attention to this to avoid making it confused. I also noticed this book uses some italic text for emphasis, so you should keep an eye out for that when proofreading. Italic text is indicated by surrounding the text with two single straight quote marks on each side, like this: ''italic text'' (which will look like this: italic text).

Once pages are fully proofread (all text correctly transcribed, line breaks removed and added as appropriate, and formatting added to match the original book) the page status should be changed from "Not proofread" to "Proofread". Once a second person has independently verified that the transcription is correct the page status is then changed to "Validated".

Once all pages are either "Proofread" or "Validated", the text can be "transcluded" (technical jargon for combining the individual pages into chapters for display to readers) for presentation. That process is a bit convoluted and technical so you may want to ask for help with it until you get the hang of it. For illustration purposes I have transcluded the front matter and Preface for this work at The Science of Religion so that you can see what it'll look like once finished.

Good luck, and don't hesitate to ask for help (Wikisource:Scriptorium/Help is a good venue for that). Xover (talk) 08:16, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Xover: Hallo Xover, thank you for your support. Here are two stuff of formatting that I do not know.

• The stars: Page:The Science of Religion (1925).djvu/43

• Italic of full sentence: Page:The Science of Religion (1925).djvu/44

I do not speak English as a mother tongue, for this reason I do not understand some things exactly. Thank you!--Riquix (talk) 07:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

The stars are such a common occurrence in the books we transcribe that we've created a "template" for it (another bit of wiki jargon: if you think of it a bit like what in other computer contexts is called a "macro" it may be easier to understand how they function). The template is {{***}} and it takes a parameter to tell it how many asterisks (the proper name of the "star" character) to show. As you can see on page /43, a line of five asterisks would be produced with {{ ***|5}}. You can also adjust the spacing between the asterisks, or even use a different character than an asterisk if the book you are transcribing differs, using additional parameters. If you click the name of the template in the examples here you'll be taken to its documentation page where this is described.

In regards making a whole sentence italic, there's no special way to do it; you just use the two straight single quotation marks at each end. The reason it wasn't working for you on page /44 is that you had remaining hard line breaks within that paragraph and that sentence. While some wikimarkup will work in spite of such line breaks, not all of it will; and italics is one of the formatting commands that will not. There are some other workarounds, but the easiest way to deal with it is to just remove the hard line breaks within each paragraph.

Don't worry too much about the language barrier. We're a pretty global community so we're used to the communication issues stemming from that (it is not uncommon that multiple people in a discussion are non-native speakers of English), and in a real pinch we can usually find someone that can translate the really difficult bits. Just among our current administrators (which are just a small part of the community) I count people with proficiency in around 10 different languages. We'll work it out. :) --Xover (talk) 10:20, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

@Xover:

Hallo Xover, I am as far as I could at the end with the book. How shall we proceed? --Riquix (talk) 14:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

@Riquix: I've looked over the remaining pages, and they look good. I notice you still tend to leave behind some hard line breaks, and sometimes do not properly join words that have been hyphen-ated across a line break, but otherwise it was very nice work!

Now we transclude the pages for presentation. I've set up a framework, the Preface, and the first chapter: The Science of Religion. Now we only need to do the last two chapters, and then we can list it on the Main Page. Would you like to try this yourself from the example, or would you like me to do it for you? Xover (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

@Xover:

Hallo Xover, the second and third chapter I did for the first time. How to put it on the main page, I could not understand so far. Thanks without you I would never have brought that far almost within two weeks !! --Riquix (talk) 19:08, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Have it still released on the main page for the first time 100% sure I'm not all right for what I did.--Riquix (talk) 19:24, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

You did it entirely right. Well done! :) Xover (talk) 21:07, 15 January 2022 (UTC)