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:
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Proposer: Sohom Datta (talk) 11:10, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Good idea, or no text (image only for exemple) --Nehaoua (talk) 17:58, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Additonally, there is impossible to use Special:Shortestpages on Wikisources, because are full of "empty" pages. JAn Dudík (talk) 13:49, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
See also wikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2022-07#Lots of blank pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:46, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Your link incorrect Proeksad (talk) 22:52, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies; fixed. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:01, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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?

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]

Voting

Support Nmarshall25 (talk) 20:03, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 00:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Poslovitch (talk) 00:25, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Klein Muçi (talk) 00:51, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 02:36, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support EpicPupper (talk) 05:37, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Muted Red Tulip (talk) 08:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szymonel (talk) 08:46, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Exilexi (talk) 09:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mike bzh (talk) 15:39, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support FinixFighter (talk) 15:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nehaoua (talk) 16:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 18:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support VastV0idInSpace0 (talk) 20:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 01:13, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:55, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 03:11, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jayantanth (talk) 08:05, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support PMenon-WMF (talk) 06:41, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:02, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gillum (talk) 23:21, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dankowski (talk) 22:49, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support DoublePendulumAttractor (talk) 06:00, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bicolino34 (talk) 08:19, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support This should be added. Thingofme (talk) 16:28, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 12:40, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kcat37 (talk) 13:37, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Morten Haan (talk) 18:51, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]