Hi, @Languageseeker I had setup the proofreadpage but don't know how to use in mediawiki docker.

@Sandyabhi Try the steps here to check if the ProofreadPage extension works as intended.

Also, if you any doubts about the ProofreadPage/PagelistWidget project, feel free to ping me on Zulip chat under the ProofreadPage topic (Wikimedia Zulip Chat).

@Priyanshugupta1909 Of course, you have the assignment.

Is this not possible via normal Wikieditor customisation?

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar_customization#Add_characters_to_an_existing_special_characters_page

For example, I have a function to add some chars for an index:

var addCharacters = function() {

  $( '#wpTextbox1' ).wikiEditor( 'addToToolbar', {
    'section': 'characters',
    'pages': {
      'yazidi': {
        'layout': 'characters',
        'label': 'Yazidi',
        'characters': [ 'Ḍ', 'ḍ', 'Ḳ', 'ḳ', 'Ṣ', 'ṣ', 'Ḫ', 'ḫ', 'Š', 'š', 'â', 'î' ]
      }
    }
  } );
};

So all we need is a way to inject the data into the Page: namespace based on "something" in the Index page.

@Inductiveload Yes, your thinking is close to mine. Basically, this would have three components.

1. A template such as yours.
2. A section on the Index page to select the template.
3. The ability to inject this data into the Page: namespace.

In many ways, I'm trying to replicate the way that books were actually typeset. Printers had boxes of type that they could reach into and grab the appropriate character. A custom edit bar would make it much easier to insert the appropriate characters and formatting for a text.

This is also a way to address https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Wikisource/UI_improvements_on_Wikisource

Much of this is we need to recast our "special characters" box into something actually useful (probably organised more thematically rather than by Unicode codepage). E.g. "Old English" or "Polytonic Greek", so you don't have to dig about in hundreds of useless chars for the job at hand.

@Inductiveload @Languageseeker This is certainly possible. But it will probably require some more hashing out... For example, which characters should be added based on the parameters on the Index: pages.

Or should it be like a separate housekeeping parameter

@Inductiveload @Soda In my opinion, it's both characters and templates. Take for Example, the EB11 project that uses custom templates such as {{EB1911 Fine Print|}} It would make sense for these templates to be in the Edit Bar of all EB11 projects, but not in a book on English Poetry. Also, I would want the characters to be readily accessible not buried in menus.

@Soda, I think a minimal viable solution here is to extend T255345 to add the other index parameters to Pages via mw.config, then you just need to add a field to [[MediaWiki:Proofreadpage index data config]] and you can process that with JS however you like.

Moving the processing into the extension is then just a nice-to-have to make it default behaviour.

@Languageseeker you can have templates as well with the Wikieditor configuration API. For example the new CSS wikieditor tools provide some pre-set snippets: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help%3AGadget-WikiEditorTools

@Inductiveload Templates are great as well and may be easier to do.