[Wikisource-l] Re: MediaWiki, Wikisource extensions, and new implementations deployment

2021-11-20 Thread Ruthven
Hi Ankry, on Italian Wikisource and on Neapolitan Wikisource there are "Technical" village pumps. I suppose that would be the correct place to post it if there is such a page in other languages. It would be interesting to see what happens if a whole community writes on Phabricator in order to

[Wikisource-l] Re: MediaWiki, Wikisource extensions, and new implementations deployment

2021-11-20 Thread Ankry
Well, I was notified by techncally skilled users that the ned OpenSeadragon library is much heavier and more memory consuming than curreently used tools. So I can only hope that its load into memory can be disabled if one needs so. (may be critical while working on multiple pages at once)

[Wikisource-l] MediaWiki, Wikisource extensions, and new implementations deployment

2021-11-20 Thread Ruthven
Hi all, as usual, I get surprised every time there are major changes on the MediaWiki software that are deployed without providing advance warning to the community. Every time it's the same story: something stops working on the project. A gadget, a toolbar or some personalised JS. This time it

[Wikisource-l] Re: 2021 report

2021-11-20 Thread Ankry
I think that information like "WCUG member X presented a session on Y at event Z" would be hard to manage in this form as (1) we have no formally managed membership at the moment (maybe we should change this and ask interested people for formal declarations at regular intervals? - the list on