Xover

MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Site.css

Hi there! another interface edit request over there (to locally revert the V22 paragraph spacing). — Alien  3
3 3 20:24, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

MediaWiki talk:Gadget-PageNumbers-core.css

Hello again (and a bit sorry for all the talk page messages, but you're the only intadmin, and you said you couldn't watch pings, so...) Anyhow, there's a little dark mode fix for footnotes to do over there (using variables). — Alien  3
3 3 17:20, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

@Alien333: No worries; just ping me here as often as you need to. I would much much rather get these pings than go unaware that there's a need for an interface admin. Xover (talk) 17:44, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

the next big problem: interwiki links between language source wiki

I just made a data for a Polish wikisource for The New Accelerator. They just used the data for our Amazing Stories version, which was also 1926. If they had hijacked d:Q7753474 I would have been glad and left it there. How many Polish translations are there?

So, now I am thinking about how to get this pl.ws link to our versions page. And I am thinking that the only way to do it is to make a redirect at Polish source to put onto that main (not a version) data. Most of the links I have found that have hijacked our versions have been Japanese. Maybe some Russian also.

To make these redirects, I would need permission from the "redirect deleters" at those sources, if they exist. Also, my "Dick and Jane"^[1] eyes/brain would have to submit more than they have already. It is scary to paste foreign script and this seems biased (because it is) but the more unlike my own alphabet it is, the more scary it is.

So, I am here first (consider yourself less scary than pasting foreign scripts) because maybe there is another solution to this. Version pages shuffling through the data looking for source links to other wiki would not be so bad as the fable page, but I think that the redirects is by far the better of the two options. Perhaps there is a third that is better than the other two except for not having been thought of yet.

This is off the top of my head where many things there are a mess: I will clarify whenever necessary.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:16, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

1. I read about a "font bias" that the few generations of children in the US who learned to read from these same books. All of us; maybe two whole generations. And I believe it.

Plays for 2025

Here is a list of the plays I would like to complete this year, but for which I do not have a DjVu. If you have the time, could you please provide DjVu files?

The first two will definitely need to be uploaded locally, as the books are UK published and Murray, an anglo-Australian, died in 1957. The third one may need to be uploaded locally; I am unsure of the status for a book published in Japan in 1907 where the author died in 1947.

• The Alcestis of Euripides, repr. (1915), transl. by Murray (external scan) (UK / Australia, d.1957) (transcription project)
• The Bacchae of Euripides, 2nd ed. (1906), transl. by Murray (external scan) (UK / Australia, d.1957) (start transcription)
• Ten Kiogen in English (1907), transl. by Yone Noguchi (external scan) (Japan, d.1947) (transcription project)
• The Creditor (1910) by August Strindberg (external scan) (start transcription)
• He Who Gets Slapped (Andreyev) (translator Zilboorg; Russia, d. 1959) (external scan) (start transcription)
• The Phantom (1856) by Dion Boucicault (external scan) (start transcription)
• The Adding Machine (1923) by Elmer Rice (external scan) (start transcription)
• Euripides, Vol. II, transl. Arthur S. Way. I recommend saving as File:Euripides (Way 1929) v2.djvu to match the Sophocles volumes from the set. (external scan) (start transcription)

These will likely be the only remaining ones I will need for the year. No hurry on any these, as I have projects occupying my time for March. Thanks, --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:49, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

I have added just one more the the end of the list, and yes, it is just volume II (out of IV). This volume has a play not present in the earlier edition of Way that I've been working on. Since the other three volumes duplicate content we already have, or soon will have, those other volumes are not needed. --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:10, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: All should be done now, albeit with very superficial quality control. I've added {{ssl}} links to the list above.

The Japanese work was published while the Japanese term was pma. 50 and had expired before the term was extended to pma. 70, so I uploaded it to Commons. Xover (talk) 11:19, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks so much! --EncycloPetey (talk) 13:57, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Paragraph spacing, again

Could you, if you can find the time, answer at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-Site.css? Jan also pointed out something interesting, which is that we will be wanting to revert it in running text, because paragraphs that were given extra spacing in the source (which we do by something like margin-top:1em), now appear to just be normal. — Alien  3
3 3 08:30, 15 March 2025 (UTC)