Wikipedia talk:GLAM/British Library/British wildlife edit-a-thon 2015

Parallel lives
There is still a page gathering traffic on Wikimedia UK duplicate] should they be merged or one culled. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 22:36, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Check on edits
Hi friends,

does anyone do some checks on the edits? I found a sound of a yellowhammer, added on a page of a woodlark on the Dutch wikipedia (and on the English as well). Doesn't make much sense. Greetings, --Dick Bos (talk) 17:34, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the errors. I have now corrected the yellowhammer/woodlark mixups on several pages (Dutch, English, etc versions) Richarddr (talk) 21:01, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Forty-three edits in forty three languages in 103 minutes
I have just checked out my theory- it is possible to put a sound bar in the infobox each of the 43 languages shown- just by doing a Cntl-C/ Cntl-V operation multiple times. The languages that have beaten me are Urdu and Arabic.


 * 1) Stage one- goto English- that has been done and Cntl-C the sound file name  Pied_Flycatcher_(Ficedula_hypoleuca)_(W1CDR0001423_BD1).ogg . You hold tight to this.
 * 2) Stage two. Start on the list of languages- I started from the bottom. Winaray. You need to open the wikitext editor- you know where the button should be, one will sat Random letters, and nest to it will be one with two words- like Random letters and more. It will mean edit, and edit code- we need the code editor. In the wiki code editor will be a familiar taxobox or infobox. Find the image file (bird name or other.jpg). The caption or Tekst will be nearby. (To check, look  at the picture on that page, under it will be the caption.) At the end of the caption click Cntl-V and it will paste in the stored code- that always works. Now click preview (yes, it is in the second position)- is it correct? If so, save.
 * 3) Stage three. Select the next bird.

-- there are some slight twists to this.
 * Twist 1. No caption/no idea what the word is in that language. Well if the image line says | immagem = bird.jpg, try typing immagem2 = (then Cntl-V). Do a preview, and then if OK save.
 * Twist 2. there is some code  {{image list bird.jpg|birdie.jpg  (ie no File:)- just insert the sound.ogg in between them (Cntl-V and erase the extra bits) so you get  {{image list bird.jpg|Pied_Flycatcher_(Ficedula_hypoleuca)_(W1CDR0001423_BD1).ogg|birdie.jpg  - that may work
 * Twist 3. some of the German wikis such as Boarish- use a different type of taxobox code- this can be hacked but I can't write and firm rules on the method.

The whole lot took from between 14.12 and 15.53- one hour forty minutes. The job is done but- I can't think how you can record your progress in a machine readable way thougn I can recover the list from a link on the normal my contributions page. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 22:28, 21 November 2015 (UTC)