User talk:Wizardist

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Please help translate to your language

-Zyephyrus 21:56, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi. The page you created today - Лісты з-пад шыбеніцы - has no language category and no details about the author, the source, the licence. Please add these details to it as it could be deleted soon. Thanks, regards, -jkb- 22:04, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your first help, best regards, -jkb- 23:30, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

The hardest thing was to realize find what categories I had to add. :) Wizardist 23:38, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Касiў Ясь канюшыну

Прывітанне! Разумець - я разумею, але цяжка пісаць (я не маю кірылічная клавіятуры.)

Sorry but because of this "technical problem" the rest of my answer will be in English...

Of course you can write in Belarussian - I understend it pretty well (but to say the truth my speaking is not as good as reading).

What about formating: I know that kind of format. It is used mainly in Russian Wikisource. The problem with it is that is not compatible with ilustrations. If you want illustrate the text the best place for ilustration is put it on the right of poems. And it is rather impossible with this template.

With < poems > < /poems > format there is no problem, see e.g. -> Kosił Jaś koniczynę.

To sum up: I am not against it. I understand that the most of poems are without ilustrations... And if there would be one with a picture we can always change the format template...

Also you are right that poems with cyrilic letters look better when they are with serifs.

Regards from Poland :) Electron  ^<Talk?> 14:43, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Image formatting is not the problem indeed. When we get our own Wikisource, I'll make everything for images to fit on pages well. As I said first, I've formatted the article with the first template I came across. So, this is not really a problem. I've asked about the font family and approximate arrange of contents on the page in the future project.

PS: please answer my questions where I've put them. It's much easier for me to track the discussion. Thanks! Wizardist 23:21, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

OK. If you say it is no problem...

What about the arangement of text and fonts: I used to the format that is used on pl-wikisource because I worked there for some years and lerned it pretty well. So my opinion might be rather skewed ;) I take here some template from pl-wikisource, as well. Some of them didn't work (e.g a header for authors and a special format template for plain not poem text) here because it is need to add some scripts in Mediawiki and I have no admin rights here to put them in the proper place (and have no time and strong will to please the admins to give me a help).

I don't have my strong opinion about the font that would be the best. If you have your own idea and proposals we can discussed them in the future when there will be Belarusian subdomain. Maybe it is a good idea to take a look haw it is done in ru-wikisource. They have more experience with cyrilic texts...

The first step should be to import all Belarusian content from the old wikisource to the new wiki with their all edition history - it is important matter because of the copyrights. After that we can arrange the others things gradually. Regards Electron  ^<Talk?> 22:55, 13 April 2011 (UTC)