User talk:Simon Peter Hughes

Welcome to Wikisource

Hello, Simon Peter Hughes, and welcome to Wikisource! Thank you for joining the project. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 13:14, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

The Shunned House

Hi. The categories for Weird Tales/Volume 30/Issue 4/The Shunned House are actually on the redirect page The Shunned House. I put the categories there to keep the category pages legible (the full file path isn't that easy to read when browsing a category). I've added a defaultsort to the redirect (I don't know why I forgot to do so originally). - AdamBMorgan (talk) 20:00, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Re

Hi, I answered your message here. Regards, Candalua (talk) 13:19, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikisource User Group

Wikisource, the free digital library is moving towards better implementation of book management, proofreading and uploading. All language communities are very important in Wikisource. We would like to propose a Wikisource User Group, which would be a loose, volunteer organization to facilitate outreach and foster technical development, join if you feel like helping out. This would also give a better way to share and improve the tools used in the local Wikisources. You are invited to join the mailing list 'wikisource-l' (English), the IRC channel #wikisource, the facebook page or the Wikisource twitter. As a part of the Google Summer of Code 2013, there are four projects related to Wikisource. To get the best results out of these projects, we would like your comments about them. The projects are listed at Wikisource across projects. You can find the midpoint report for developmental work done during the IEG on Wikisource here.

Global message delivery, 23:23, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Easier way to do "defaultsort"

Hi, for a work with as many sub-pages as A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon it would be easier to get a bot to add the defaultsort. You can put a request in at Bot Requests, and one of the bot-owners who do this sort of thing will be happy to assist. Doing so would free you to focus on works that require a more manual intervention. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 05:13, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

OK< I've made the request. I'll now move on from 1891 works to 1890 works. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 09:15, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

wikilivres

hi;

in case you weren't "in the loop", we're working on getting wl back up (@ a new domain name).

https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_talk:Wikilivres

btw; last backup is from ~feb 20; if you happen to have saved any copies of work/content/material that is more recent, please do not delete! i do not have access anymore to backup copies of some of the books i've uploaded.

if the old site ever does come back online; we should try to scrape up all of the recent work.

best regards,

Lx 121 (talk) 12:01, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

@Lx 121: @Simon Peter Hughes: Any idea what is happening with this site? It appears the domain has moved, maybe back again? Frayae (talk) 10:51, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Frayae: The address now is https://wikilivres.org and that's a new address. Before, it had been at wikilivres.info and then at wikilivres.ca. The previous address of https://biblo.wiki redirects to the new site. And it now looks like the name has officially changed back to Wikilivres again. That's a bit annoying for me after all the changes I did on other wikis to say that it was now called Bibliowiki. Currently, the content from the old site is being migrated to the new one and it's rather unstable. It should be ready by the start of December. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 13:00, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Simon Peter Hughes: Hello. Sorry to bother you. I am a casual user of the Wikilivres site. I was wondering what is going on with the site. It has been unavailable for the past week. Any information would be appreciated. Thank you. 5.2.145.28 06:58, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

I don't know. I wish I did. Although the site was always a bit slow, by the start of August, it just got to the point that the site was loading so slowly that I found trying to edit it extremely frustrating and more trouble than it was worth. So I decided to take a complete break from the site and not even look at if for a week, in the hope that it would get better after that. A week went by and the site was still just as slow so I didn't try to edit it. Then two weeks. Then I tried to visit the site again and found it was down. I think Wikilivres might have finally died. But I hope I'm wrong. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 11:55, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Vita Nuova and Wikidata

It's not a "cock up" on Wikidata. The data structure for works links pages for "works" with each other. So if each Wikisource had a page for Dante's Vita Nuova as a work, then those would all be linked together. However, what you linked to are editions / translations, and each of those has a different translator, publisher, date, etc. So those each get separate data items, and should not be cross-linked with each other.

Yes, it's a headache, but I and others have been pushing for a tool that will correct the problem by automatically checking against the data structure at Wikidata to resolve the linking issue. In the meanwhile, it is always possible for each wikisource to create a "work" page listing translations published in their own language. The French have started doing this, and some Polish and Russian wikisourcers are doing likewise now. The Italians have created a separate namespace to handle the problem. --EncycloPetey (talk) 05:44, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Gujarát and the Gujarátis

I already added Category:India when I noticed the work on the "New" List earlier today. I added the category in the header, using the categories= parameter instead of adding it to the bottom. --EncycloPetey (talk) 05:34, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Ok. thank you for telling me. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 05:36, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

Inline templates for Wikisource on Wikipedia

(putting this discussion here instead of at enWP deliberately, to not invite the typical 'pedian drama)

I'm coming to you somewhat on behalf of WikiProject Recruitment...

I've been trying to "recruit" new editors for years now by adding links to our works and authors on Wikipedia articles, and it seemingly hasn't done anything to that end. Wikisource is in really really bad need for advertising and recruitment, as our community is absurdly tiny to handle the ginormous sea of works we're given each year to transcribe. We need more editors, badly, and as soon as possible.

I notice you often change the block templates I add to inline templates, and I'm guessing the reason for this is the HTML issues that using block templates that float right will cause on some pages. And I do understand that. But, this is something I see as an issue even so, since the block templates are huge, loud, and seem convincing. But the inline templates are barely noticeable among the sea of random links to other sites. I'd like Wikisource to come across as something important, exciting, and visible, not as part of a mundane list of links.

My suggestion would be to change the sister templates to be centered and at the top of the external links list, so that it will never intrude on other templates due to floating. This is currently done to list related portals on some Wikipedia articles, so hopefully it can be done with sister projects too. But, I couldn't lend myself to go start a mainstream Wikipedia discussion about this, because I know that won't get me anywhere. They'd just throw a bunch of WP:THIS, WP:THAT, WP:THEOTHER, WP:NOPE, WP:NADA, WP:SILENCEYOUPEASANT, and then the discussion would be over just like that. (My experience has been, they're a very unwelcoming bunch of folks.) But I trust your judgment on the matter. Do you think there's anything we can do to improve visibility to our site from Wikipedia? SnowyCinema (talk) 17:30, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@SnowyCinema: Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I have recently started a new job from which I don't return home until almost 10 o'clock at night, when I'm in no it state to communicate at length with anybody.

I think we're both on the same team here. I also want more people to be aware of Wikisource and contribute to it. The block templates were obviously originally designed to accompany great long lists of external links. Which is a bit ironic, since Wikipedia now generally frowns on long lists of external links. I would welcome a redesign of the Wikisource block template so that it is centred instead of floating on the right. That would then do away with the need for a Wikisource-inline template. However, it would mean that the block templates for all the over sister projects would have to be redesigned too.

Each time I changed a block template to an inline one, it was just because I thought it looked better that way. Other people might disagree and I would never edit war with them. So if you want to change any of them back, go ahead. Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 15:26, 12 February 2024 (UTC)