Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Archive/Creation of a template for newspapers and magazines

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Creation of a template for newspapers and magazines

N Does not require engineering resources

Problem: Wikisource is an excellent tool for transcribing paper works online. However, a majority of online archives are newspapers and magazines and these media are significantly absent from Wikisource. Current transcription models can prove to be a real headache when it comes to transcribing newspaper or magazine articles, which discourages many from tackling them on Wikisource.
Who would benefit:
- All editors on Wikisource
- All users of Wikisource
- Researchers
Proposed solution:
- When a file is registered as a newspaper or magazine on Wikisource, the editing page should offer a different template of transcription.
- The new template should allows the editor to have an interface that recreates the organization of chosen newspaper or magazine articles.
- The creation of a "calendar" page which allows to locate the newspapers or magazines transcribed according to the year, the month and the day of their publication. To view an example of a calendar page, see this Gallica link.
More comments: Newspapers and magazines represent a wealth of information on thousands of subjects. These could be offered to all Wikisource users if only their transcription was made easier and more efficient.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Guillaumelandry (talk) 16:39, 10 January 2022 (EST)

The idea with calendar is good, but also need possibility for more issues in one day. This can be done by adapting cs:Template:Kalendář, wchich can made calendar for every month. But this is local solution, global would be better.JAn Dudík (talk) 10:24, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Guillaumelandry: This appears to be something that can be done on the wiki by creating the appropriate templates. Therefore, I am archiving. Thank you for taking part in the survey. DWalden (WMF) (talk) 18:00, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Yann (talk) 13:12, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Le ciel est par dessus le toit (talk) 08:30, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]