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.
I'm not sure about this. Are the pages numbered? If so a reader may wonder why pages are missing. Most blank pages are not numbered but some are. It needs to be consistent. I think that at the bottom of the page before the blank, something should say "The next page was blank, so we removed it," which would be better. Anyone disagree?
@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]
Support Nmarshall25 (talk) 20:03, 10 February 2023 (UTC)