User talk:Koavf

Welcome

Hello Koavf, welcome to the multilingual Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here.

This wiki is the original Wikisource wiki, originally hosting works in many languages. The larger collections have been spawned into separate projects, leaving this wiki to serve as a central collaboration point, and as an environment where works without a language subdomain can be started. Refer to our languages list to see which languages still reside on this wiki. You can find a list of the separate language projects on the main page or here and you may want to look at the our coordination page for limitations on placing certain works on the separate language projects.

Most questions and discussions about the community are in the Scriptorium.

The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page!

Please help translate to your language

--Ooswesthoesbes 05:36, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

DP Connection

Hi, I noticed you edited Wikisource:Wikisource and Project Gutenberg. Do you have any connection with Project Gutenberg? I am a proofreader that has drifted over from pg and feel that a collaboration between Distributed Proofreaders and Wikisource could be very valuable re proofreader development. I am appalled at how little proofreading seems to have been done at Wikisource. I know there are a lot of frustrated proofreaders at DP who want practice. It seems an ideal to advertise Wikisource to novice proofreaders. I wouldn't know who/how to approach at DP... Any thoughts? Zoeannl 05:41, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

@Zoeannl: I am also registered at DP as well and I'd be very happy to see content pass between our communities. As for who to contact, part of the difficulty is that there are several distinct DP communities... What have you been thinking? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:45, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

I've just found this forum post on DP-what's really interesting is that it took months for anyone to mention Wikisource. I put in my 2 cents and had an immediate reply telling how much better the PP support is now. Kinda missing the point. And maybe part of the problem? --Zoeannl (talk) 09:31, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

DP and WS Excuse my delay in getting back. If you want to reach me more directly, e-mail works best. I think it's a little silly for our two communities to not work together: it's virtually trivial to take a text from one and post it to the other anyway. I've posted there as well. How were you told that DP is better than WS? Through a private message? What is the best way to contact you? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:20, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikilivres

@Koavf: we're back in business, though not finished setting up. (see wl discussion page on here)

join us? :)

Lx 121 (talk) 18:29, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

@Lx 121: I'm looking now. I've been busy since set up but I have an account there. I'm excited to see something happening. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:48, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikisource:Scriptorium

Please, do not archive unresponded sections ("Restore link") so fast. They can be missed this way. Ankry (talk) 09:11, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

@Ankry: Sorry--I misread that as it had been restored. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:30, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Empty categories

We let them stay if a language has moved to a subdomain. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 11:25, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ooswesthoesbes: Can you explain the thinking there? I don't see a policy page on this. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:27, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

There is no written policy page on that. It is based on what always has been done. The main reason is incoming external links that might point to these categories/main pages. So, they are kept as a placeholder to inform that they have moved to their own subdomain. Pretty much the same idea as pages on the Incubator like these. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 09:43, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ooswesthoesbes: Makes sense. We should delete the redundant texts, tho. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:46, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes. La Bibia piemontèisa however is an exception, as the creator of those pages has linked it from several websites and requested me to let that page stay. It might be easy to create a separate category for all pages and categories that should be kept and not deleted. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 09:48, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ooswesthoesbes: Hm. That is a problem: incoming links... Not sure what the solution is here, as hosting content at mul.ws and an individual subdomain is clearly a bad idea... Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:51, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Basically, the contents is only hosted on the individual subdomain. Only about two pages (main page, main category) are usually kept as soft redirects. With the Piemontese Bible main page being an exception. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 09:52, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Author:Tamara Ščerbakova

Hi,

I am unsure if setting a language for author pages is a good idea.

These pages (maybe not in this case) may be multilingual. Especially for multilingiual and/or well-known and widely translated authors. Ankry (talk) 11:52, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@Ankry: That's not bad thinking--the interface should be multinlingual and the page should be set to mul. I'll post to the Scriptorium. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:16, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

BTW, same applies IMO to disambig pages. Ankry (talk) 17:46, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@Ankry: That makes sense too. Did you see any tagged that way? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:48, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Not yet, but I have seen somewhere one that should (Rumansh/Polish). Or maybe two, I do not remember. I cannot find it at the moment, maybe later. Ankry (talk) 18:01, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

OK, I found them:

• Capri (Rumantsch) and Capri (Staff, 1922) {Polish)
• Noc (Lower Sorbian) and poem with the same title from Uśmiechy godzin (tomik) (Polish, not processed yet)

Maybe there are more. Eg. Latin titles may be common for many poems in variuos European languages. Ankry (talk) 18:18, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Mop

You choose one of those:

I have not the slightest idea of in what they differ... please choose the prettiest!

Welcome among oldws admins :) --Zyephyrus (talk) 20:22, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

@Zyephyrus: Every protein, enzyme, and prion is equally beautiful to me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:54, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Archiving Punjabi Wikisource from Multilingual Wikisource

Can you please help in Archiving Punjabi Wikisource from Multilingual Wikisource. Everything has been exported to pa.wikisource.org already. --Satdeep Gill (talk) 00:03, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

@Satdeep Gill: It has? Okay, if you're sure. If you're not 100%, I will check and make sure myself. Otherwise, I'll trust you and delete all the content from here. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:04, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

@Koavf: I am quite definite that everything was moved my MF-Warburg back in 2017. I think it's best to delete everything from here. --Satdeep Gill (talk) 00:08, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

@Satdeep Gill: Thanks kindly. No reason at all to keep them in two places: that will only encourage problems. Thanks! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:14, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Protection banner' not found.

here. Do you intend to fix this? or should we revert your imported changes? AFAIK, there haeder had documentation some time ago. Ankry (talk) 15:18, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ankry: The only edit I've made to this template was this which would not cause a Lua error. I imported several modules and templates from en.ws to make Template:Overfloat image work locally but I don't see how that's relevant. What am I missing? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:33, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

The problem is INO, IMO some way related to this change that you made while importing and that the import of complex, convoluted en.ws system was not complete. Ankry (talk) 15:50, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ankry: INO? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:57, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Typo. Ankry (talk) 17:37, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

jQuery for deleting napwikisource pages

Hi Koavf!

I made this quick jQuery to check if a page here on the multilingual Wikisource has already been exported to napwikisource.

$(document).ready ( function () {
  function findNap() {
    $.getJSON("https://nap.wikisource.org/w/api.php?callback=?", {
      action: 'query',
      prop: 'pageprops',
      format: 'json',
      titles: mw.config.get('wgPageName')
    }, function ( a ) {
      $.each( a.query.pages, function (k, v) {
        if ( k != -1 ) {
          $("#bodyContent").prepend("<div class='error' style='color:green;font-size:larger;'>This page exists in the Neapolitan Wikisource. <a href='https://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=" + mw.config.get('wgPageName') + "&action=delete&wpReason=Moved+to+[[:nap:" + mw.config.get('wgPageName') + "]]'>Delete now</a></div>");
        } else {
          $("#bodyContent").prepend("<div class='error' style='font-size:larger;'>This page doesn't exist in the Neapolitan Wikisource yet!</div>");
        }
      });
    });
  }
  findNap();
});

If you put it in User:Koavf/common.js, it will insert a prominent text telling whether or not a page has already been imported to napwikisource. If a page does exist, it will give a quick link to delete it with a prefilled summary linking to the new location of the page.

Hope you'll find this useful! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:07, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: That is beautiful. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:08, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Just discovered something – it doesn't work on pages in the Author namespace, because Author is not set as an alias for Autore there. Just so you're aware. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:29, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: I'm not seeing any notice here. E.g. I just went to our local 'A Morte and even tho nap:'A Morte also exists, nothing notified me that the newly-imported version exists. I have refreshed, bypassed the cache, and even restarted my computer since I added this script but no luck. Any recommendations? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:00, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

So sorry about that, I forgot one crucial part when I pasted the script in here – actually executing the function! I added it in this edit. The text will display underneath the title on every single page (even special pages, talk pages, in editing view, history view, etc. Hence why it's a very quick jQuery, hehe). Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:10, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: Grazie--it's just ugly enough to be annoying. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:16, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

That's exactly what I was going for! 😁 Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:17, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

PS! If you use the delete link the script generates, it will automatically include a link to the pages' current locations on napwikisource. Useful if for some reason there are external links pointing to something here on oldwikisource, that way the delete log will point to the correct place. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:27, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: I have used that link several times--very helpful. Unfortunately, it does not recognize titles beginning with <'> (likely due to its meaning in scripting languages) and unfortunately Neapolitan has a huge amount of titles that begin with it but this is a very helpful start. We have about 10,000 pages here under Category:Napulitano, so there's a lot to remove and this script is very handy. If you can somehow modify it to recognize leading <'>s, that would be fantastic. (My ECMA/JavaScript skills are very basic.) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:11, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Ah, sorry about that! Yeah, you're right. This diff should fix that!

By the way, do you want some help with the deletions? I can start in the opposite end if you'd like. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 07:07, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: I certainly won't turn it down! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:10, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

I think almost all deletions are done! jQuery can be quite powerful. You're a power user if there ever was one, hehe – I would really recommend looking into learning some simple jQuery. It can make things very efficient, especially repetetive tasks.

Anyways, I've identified some more pages that need to be imported to napwikisource. I don't have the importer bit any more, so if you could do them that would be swell. They are listed in User:Jon Harald Søby/napwikisource. I also think Ruthven should have a look at the ones I suspected of being in Italian and decide what should be done with them. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 07:22, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: Tusen takk. Yeah, learning JS is a goal of mine but I know that I'll never be a real scripting/programming whiz. I really like front-end Web design and scripting bridges the gap to the back end. Anyway, I should be able to polish off the rest of these. You've been hugely helpful. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:47, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Bots

Hi. The bots are still making edits, could you create an abuse filter? Matiia (talk) 00:24, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

@Matiia: It would be helpful if you would provide a link or diff. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:33, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Look at the recent changes. Matiia (talk) 00:34, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

@Matiia: Teamwork. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:02, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

@Matiia: I have other things to do now. Thanks for alerting me--I've tried to make a decent go to stop them for now. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:12, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Spambots

Please consider doing a range block like special:block/159.146.0.0/17. --WhitePhosphorus (talk) 00:54, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

@WhitePhosphorus: Never done that before--want to make sure I do it correctly. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

IP

Hi please block Special:Contributions/37.154.221.126. x-wiki spammer. You've probably seen it on species.wiki. 大诺史 (talk) 17:04, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

@大诺史: Thanks. Already blocked but I just deleted his contributions. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:06, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Please block on en.wikiquote. Thanks. 大诺史 (talk) 18:06, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

@大诺史: q:en:Special:Contributions/37.154.221.126 is empty now. I'm a little reluctant to preemptively block with no contribs. If you think there should be global block, that can be posted to the stewards at m:. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:09, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

No specifically this IP, take a look at the recent changes. 大诺史 (talk) 18:10, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

@大诺史: Nice. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:18, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

hiwikisource

Hi! Could you help me delete the hiwikisource pages from here? There are so many of them. I have again made a jQuery to help. You can just copy everything from User:Jon Harald Søby/common.js to User:Koavf/common.js. The script will delete a page once you open it if (a) it's in Category:हिन्दी and (b) the page exists in the Hindi Wikisource. I use a Firefox extension called Snap Links (also exists for Chrome) that lets you open multiple tabs at a time, making the process very fast.

Note that I'm simultaneously moving all pages on the Hindi Wikisource with my bot, from Latin numerals to Hindi numerals (but it's slow due to a bug in Pywikibot), so for some pages it will not delete the page and give the same red warning that "this page doesn't exist in the Hindi Wikisource yet". You can just ignore those for now – once the initial round of deletions is done I will update the jQuery to also delete the pages that have been moved by the bot. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:25, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: This is great. Note that Page:विद्यापति ठाकुर की पद्यावली.djvu/45 hasn't been moved to hi.ws yet. Seems like they are missing lots of templates, too. Are you doing that work? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:54, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, there are several pages missing that weren't categorized properly. After we're done with this main round of deletions, I will check the <pagelist /> tags for all deleted indexes and export over the remaining missing pages. (As you can see, I developed the script a bit further than what I described – even while deleting 100 pages at a time, doing that 280 times in a row got too tedious …) As for templates there isn't really any good tools for checking which templates are used across a given set of pages at the moment, so I think I will try to make a script for that. I could actually turn it into a generalized Pywikibot script actually, I looked at the API and it looks rather straight-forward. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 19:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: s:hi:Special:WantedTemplates? or is there something I'm missing. MediaWiki does the work for you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:06, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh yes, that's a great point. For this case that should work, once the special page is updated (I'm sure there are many more wanted templates than the 11 currently listed). I was thinking of something like "what are the most used templates in category X" – I don't know of any tools for checking that. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 19:09, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

We should take a look at categories that I've recently deleted to make sure that they're empty. e.g. Category:गोदान. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:46, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

More things:

• Index talk:शैवसर्वस्व.pdf.
• Page:शैवसर्वस्व.pdf/33
• Page:भारत के प्राचीन राजवंश.pdf/47
• Page:रामचरित मानस रामनरेश त्रिपाठी.pdf/98
• Page:शैवसर्वस्व.pdf/33
• Author:परशुराम चतुर्वेदी
• लेखक:जयशंकर प्रसाद
• Template:Tulsidas
• Page:संत काव्य.pdf/146
• Page:सत्यार्थ प्रकाश.pdf/420
• Page:सत्यार्थ प्रकाश.pdf/508
• Category:सम्पत्ति-शास्त्र
• Category:सम्पत्ति-शास्त्र
• Category:बाणभट्ट की आत्मकथा
• Category:हिन्दी शब्दानुशासन

@Jon Harald Søby: See above. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:35, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Yup, I've also come across some pages that were only in some subcategories and not the main category. I'm assuming most of those pages will turn up when I check the indexes. I just imported everything from Category:हिंदी, which is an alternative spelling for हिन्दी. More will show up with the index checking. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 07:41, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: Ping me if you need more. Seems like you've got it for now. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:43, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks for all the help so far! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 07:44, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Bot flag

Please note you still have the Pseudobots flag enabled on your account, so your recent posts to Wikisource:Scriptorium would have been hidden from recent changes (along with other edits) - is this intentional? --DannyS712 (talk) 22:06, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

@DannyS712: It is not: deletion took far less time than I expected. I gave myself a week to let it expire but I'll remove it now. Good looking out, D. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:02, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Template:Missing image/i18n

Please restore Template:Missing image/i18n ASAP. I don’t know why you deleted it, but it’s used by Template:Missing image on dozens of pages, which now all show Lua errors. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 00:58, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: Got it. Sorry for that: I was deleting a lot of weird spam from a globally-blocked bot account. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:28, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Could you please restore the rest of the deleted pages as well and then mark Template:Missing image/i18n for translation? It looks like the undeletion is quite more work than the deletion… —Tacsipacsi (talk) 01:16, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

@Tacsipacsi: Done, except one that wouldn't restore. Thanks and sorry. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:22, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Protect page

Due to repeated vandalism, would you please block anonymous users from modifying https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page/Interlingua/Parolas_IED_con_accentos Darseno (talk) 11:28, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:32, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Question

Hello Koavf! I'm taking part in the discussion Requests for new languages/Wikisource Old Tupi and I have a question as you may see here: when attempting to create a new Wikisource, how to deal with bilingual texts? Only focus in the target language, or transcribe everything? I'm in this roadblock because the majority of the texts in this historical language (that some groups are attempting to revive) are bilingual. Thanks, Erick Soares3 (talk) 09:19, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

@Erick Soares3: Great question. You are not obliged to put the content of both languages on here, but this is a great place for multilingual texts. E.g. I started (years ago, nowhere finished) Festival Romanistica. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! And there's also that, if the project survives and becomes a tool for the language revival, what is in Portuguese may be translated into Old Tupi in the future. There's any way to automatically move transcriptions from one Wikisource into another? This work fits better in the Old Tupi project (and I think that there are more works in the Portuguese version that fits the project). Now, theres any equivalent here to the Template:Multicol? Thanks, Erick Soares3 (talk) 09:34, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

There is a transwiki process and bots can do this pretty easily, but I am ignorant of how to do it myself. In many Wikisources, there is a Translation namespace for making new translations, but that's usually into the language itself, not from the language into another one. If the community at a new Wikisource decides they want it to have full bilingual support, that would be up to them, of course. As you can see, {{Multicol}} exists locally, so I'm not sure of your question. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:37, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Request

Hello, could you approve my latest filter-blocked attempt at creating A Confession of Faith? (The text is bilingual in English and Massachusett, so I assume it belongs on Multilingual Wikisource.) Thank you. 98.170.164.88 10:04, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

I don't know how to approve it. I will turn off the filter briefly, like I did last time. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:06, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Reenabled. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:08, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! 98.170.164.88 10:09, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Can you please add the header template and if one exists, a reference to a scan? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:10, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Done. I couldn't add the links though, so I did the next best thing. 98.170.164.88 10:30, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Could you disable it again? 98.170.164.88 03:09, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

I can. It's tricky that we have to coordinate like this. Can you mention a time and date that we can work together? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:54, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

How about the same time tomorrow? (around 6:00 to 8:00 UTC) If another time is better, let me know. 98.170.164.88 08:17, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

I'm in Indianapolis and just woke up (it's the weekend), so I'm around now. If you post to my talk page, I should see it pretty swiftly. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:10, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Okay, how about now then? :) 98.170.164.88 18:11, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Sure. Which filter is it again? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:24, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Special:AbuseFilter/6. 98.170.164.88 18:29, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Disabled. Please post here when you're done. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:04, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Should be good for now, thanks. 98.170.164.88 19:25, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Protect page

Due to repeated vandalism, would you please block anonymous users from editing Main Page/Shqip. Thanks. --Quangdat201 (talk) 03:28, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Done for one year. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:29, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Protection request

Due to repeated vandalism, would you please revert and protection Njet, Molotoff. Thanks. --Quangdat201 (talk) 10:51, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:51, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Request

Hi, please revert State Anthem of the Soviet Union and delete Talk:共產黨宣言 (陳望道). Thanks. --Quangdat201 (talk) 02:57, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

The former was already reverted and protected hours ago. Done on the latter. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:59, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

GRP recreated the Talk:共產黨宣言 (陳望道) after you deleted it. Could you delete the page and salt it? Thanks. --Quangdat201 (talk) 04:44, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:48, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Request

Hi, please block 2001:448a:2022:b44c:d4db:171a:f24:2080 because vandalism. Thanks. --Quangdat201 (talk) 14:57, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Done by someone else. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:46, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Request

Hi, please revert and protect Main Page/Русский and Talk:Vocabulario commune ad latino-italiano-français-English-deutsch pro usu de interlinguistas. Thanks. --Quangdat201 (talk) 02:46, 08 June 2023 (UTC)

Done Merci. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:05, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Request

Hi, please block 101.99.74.188 and report this ip to Steward_requests/Global because cross wiki vandalism. Thanks. --Quangdat201 (talk) 14:29, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Done globally by someone else. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:31, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Request

Hi, please revert edit Interviuvo di Dominique Venner by 156.208.158.194, delete User talk:Rob035499 and block User:Rob035499 because vandalism. Thanks --Quangdat201 (talk) 05:15, 03 October 2023 (UTC)

Done for the first part, but I don't see the vandalism of Rob. What's the problem? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:18, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

see Special:MobileDiff/1001242. It's clearly vandalism. --Quangdat201 (talk) 05:30, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I just don't see it. It just seems like some off-topic noise about downloading files, but not obviously vandalism. I guess there's something I just don't understand. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:31, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hello, Koavf! Thank you very much for your edit. Since you are a native English speaker and I am not, it's good if you correct my not very good English in my messages addressed to a wide range of readers, and you are right - those messages should be easily understandable for others. So your edit was fine, don't worry, and you needn't apologize for such edits anyway. --Nigmont (talk) 21:26, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

<3<3<3, spasibo, tovarisch. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:27, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Wikisource:Sandbox

Hi! Why did you delete Wikisource:Sandbox? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:29, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

It was part of a mass deletion that I did. Sorry and thanks for alerting me. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:46, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for undeleting it! I wish admins could protect pages like the sandbox, the category of pages for speedy deletion etc. in a way that stops themselves from accidentally deleting them, as this is a problem again and again, across wikis. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:31, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Hm, yeah it's best to not delete it, but really if any page could be deleted and there would be no bad consequences, it's this one. Agreed that it should never have been deleted, obviously. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:49, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Issue

Hello Koavf! How are you?

Today I have finished transcribing the Historia da Paixão de Christo e taboa dos parentescos em lingua tupi, but I have an issue: in this subpage I had to use the Template:Translation table, but it automatically added each page and the subpage in the "中外翻譯作品" and "Chinese" categories. There's any way to "force" a noninclude for these categories, or to add a zh=no in the template (since it is useful for more languages beyond Chinese)?

Unrelated question: a few days ago I found the Template:New texts. Has someone ever proposed to use it in the Main page? Looking at the Main history, it seems that the template was never used, but I think that it would be a quite interesting addition (specially if the Template:New texts/item receives a |mul=yes/no|lang=XX option).

Thanks, Erick Soares3 (talk) 20:49, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Odd. The categories were directly added to the template, so it was transcluded by virtue of being part of the template. I've removed it, so purging the page a time or two should fix this.

Re: New texts, I'm not sure, but I would reckon that anyone who created it would want it used there. The hard part is that the main page here is unlike (e.g.) s:en:, where you are purely introducing someone to a given language subdomain, since this main page introduces readers to Wikisource at large as well as the local texts stored here. I think it would be a fine idea to feature new texts such as your work, so if you'd like to mock up how that would look in your sandbox, that would be nice. If not, I'm willing to give it a shot myself. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:55, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Somewhat related: It seems like this is categorized as including Spanish, but a quick glance only shows Portuguese. Is there Spanish or Latin material in this source? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:59, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello!

Thank you very much! It worked here without having to purge the page!

Personally, I think that the "New texts" could fit below the main Wikisource logo, but I would need to check to see how it would look (but I'm not an expert in the advanced Wiki code haha).

Yes, there are Spanish and Latin materials, but it is mostly in the last part: Latin language titles with Tupi/Spanish texts. Part 2 is fully Tupi, if you exclude the "Cover" and the Title; while the Introduction is a Portuguese-language essay. The Old Tupi Wikisource [proposal] kind needs to be an multilingual project, since the sources from the colonial times mostly used Tupi/Portuguese or Tupi/Spanish (with Latin here and there, since it were all religious works) in their books. I don't think that we will se an Tupi Wikisource anytime soon, but I'm adding the texts (side with my work in the Portuguese Wikisource) because I'm interested about this language.

Thanks again, Erick Soares3 (talk) 22:03, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

I tested two versions of the Main page on the Sandbox. I think that Version A may be attractive for newcomers. Erick Soares3 (talk) 22:33, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Lovely again. You may want to propose this at Wikisource:Scriptorium. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:08, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Lovely, thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Deletion of Igbo translations

Hi,

Someone is asking me on Telegram why you deleted most content in Igbo language. For instance pages like Special:DeletedContributions/Bibisuccess (and other people).

Some pages were bad (like Index:AIM-379 which is an obvious mistake) but some/most of them (?) seemed correct (like Page:A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices.djvu/213).

True, it's a bit unusual to do both transcription and translation of pages at the same time but it's not unusual and accepted on most of the other Wikisources (see fr:Catégorie:Traduction Wikisource for example).

What do you think? Can we undelete the good ones?

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 12:12, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

@VIGNERON: I mass deleted because at first, it seemed like spam from a bunch of sockpuppets. I then learned that there was e coordinated effort by individual users, but it seemed like a lot of bad work was posted, so I solicited that group on m: to let me know if they were going to try to do more work here. I am entirely in favor of undeleting any good pages, but I'm a little confused: the example you gave of a good page has never existed here and is entirely in English. Were Igbo users looking to transcribe it in English here instead of at en.ws and then provide a translation here? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:23, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

To be fair, some pages are/were not good, so I understand the confusion (see Category:Igbo for pages that you didn't delete). The person on Telegram promised to improve the quality of the translation (and to work on more regular transcription of documents in Igbo).

And yes, the translation is done directly on the pages, so the scan is in English but the text is not English. The page did existed: https://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=Page:A_catalogue_of_notable_Middle_Templars,_with_brief_biographical_notices.djvu/213 (213 not 214) and the original document is in English but the text is in Igbo. Just like it's done on other Wikisource, I you look at the category I linked before, you could find such pages: fr:Page:Lincoln Memorial (south wall interior)-b crop.djvu/1.

It's a lot of pages so I want to be sure before un-deleting them or not ;) and maybe the solution is in-between and only un-delete some of them… What do you think? The bottom line is that we should be clear and consistent, it would essential to guide this potential new Wikisource community.

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 16:43, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Ah yes, getting the page correct is wise. I really think that transcriptions should go on en.ws and translations here after that is done, but I am amenable to undeleting anything that the community is interested in working on, so I hope that was communicated to them and that is still true today. The problem was that there was a lot of bad material and it all seems to come out of nowhere, so it seemed very suspicious. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:10, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

File:Corner cro ld.gif

Hi. This was deleted Long ago. But I Wonder if it is the same as https://hr.wikisource.org/wiki/Datoteka:Corner_cro_ld.gif and if there is a good source and license. Perhaps you can have a look? MGA73 (talk) 11:28, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

They are identical. I don't know why it's uploaded locally to hr.ws instead of Commons. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:22, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. Which version was uploaded first? The version here or the one on hr.ws? And did the version here have a valid source and license? —unsigned comment by MGA73 (talk) .

hr.ws was first and there was no license here at mul.ws. It's clearly a public domain doodle in virtually all parts of the world, but I suppose it could be copyright-protected in (e.g.) Australia. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:39, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. --MGA73 (talk) 16:44, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Deleting Talk:Modern English to Konkani Dictionary/S

Could you do that, please? (IP is ranting off-topic stuff and has been repeatedly reverting deletion tags.) (Also, may or may not warrant salting; IP's been quite determined over the last three days.) — Alien  3
3 3 20:03, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Done how sad. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:23, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

File move request

Hi, are you able to move File:Tentativadelhomb00neru (1).djvu to File:Tentativa del hombre infinito.djvu? I forgot to change the name when uploading the file. Prospectprospekt (talk) 00:17, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:40, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

About deletion of 'unused' scan files

Hello! I have noticed that you deleted a lot of djvu and pdf scan files of books and periodical issues which could be used for proofreading in some future. For example -- looking to a log of your deletions from date=2025-09-19: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete&user=Koavf&page=&excludetempacct=1&wpdate=2025-09-19&tagfilter=&wpfilters%5B%5D=newusers&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist for example, you deleted files with names like File:Якстере теште 1928-***.djvu with comment: (unused files) which had been uploaded by me before (and I spent a lot of time for uploading them).

Could you explain -- why you did that? It seems to me that such deletion of those files actually was wrong:

1) As far as I know there is no a rule on the Wikisource requiring (or at least stating it as some useful and desired action) to delete unused pdf and djvu scan files containing text content that can be proofread in the future.

2) Moreover, Wikimedia Commons allows keeping such files -- pdf and djvu files of books and magazines etc. even if they are still unused anywhere on the Wikimedia -- provided that their copyright status is OK for keeping them on the Commons. Since the Mul-Wikisource can keep the scan files that are PD in the US but cannot be hosted on the Commons since they are not PD in their originating countries, the Mul-Wikisource should behave the same way as the Commons does for pdf and djvu scan files -- to keep them, if somebody have uploaded them here, wven if they are still unused (not proofread yet).

I think the deletion of those files should be reverted and those scan files should be restored, paying attention that they had been kept for years, and none of the admins had tried to delete them before you eventually decided to do that... --Nigmont (talk) 22:13, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

There is no requirement to delete unused files, but it is conventional to do here and at other wikis, similarly, it is normal to delete abandoned transcription projects that have little or not content on other Wikisource editions. If you want to expand the scope of mul.ws to be like Commons, that is certainly a conversation we could have, but that's not really the scope here either. I'm happy to undelete files you uploaded if you want: are they all just the "Якстере теште 1928-***.djvu" ones? Are you sure that they aren't suitable for Commons? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:44, 18 January 2026 (UTC)