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Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikisource/Automatically detect blank pages

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Automatically detect blank pages

  • Problem: Currently, a user must individually mark a specific page as a blank page in a book
  • Proposed solution: Create a mechanism (maybe via the Wikisource extension?) via which the software will auto-mark specific pages as blank pages for the user without the user having to actually go to those specific pages.
  • Who would benefit: Wikisource editors
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Sohom Datta (talk) 11:10, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Magnoliasouth (talk) 23:20, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Sohom Datta: What do you mean by auto-mark? At what level - index NS or Page NS? Automatic status change to "Without text"? What about scans containing, for example, illustrations, scores, notes, ..., which we mark "Without text", but also add other required data. Zdzislaw (talk) 14:53, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Zdzislaw By auto-mark, I mean changing the status to "without text" for a specific page.
    The way I picture this working is via a prompt in the Pagelist Widget/Index edit screen (at the Index: level) or at the top of a Page: page (at a Pgae: namespace level) that you can click on to automark a page/a set of pages as "Without text". For now, I think it makes sense to include only pages that are blank or are wholely composed of illustrations, however, we can looking into encompassing other types of "without text" pages as well later. Sohom Datta (talk) 16:16, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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