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Pagelist widget should cater for repeating patterns; or at least allow multi-select
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Screenshot 2022-07-03 at 12-47-07 Editing Index Harmonia ruralis (Bolton 1794) (IA harmoniaruraliso00bolt).pdf - Wikisource the free online library.png (378×885 px, 38 KB)

The above image is a pagelist in progress. The work has a repeating pattern of:

  1. Incrementally numbered page
  2. unnumbered image page
  3. blank page
  4. blank page

broken only by a change of volume.

The markup repeats in blocks like:

160="35"
161="img"
162to163="—"

It would be very convenient if the widget could detect this, and then would mark up the rest of the page (semi-)automatically.

Failing that (or additionally), the user should be able to multi-select pages such as those shown as numbered 38 (also highlighted), 39, 42, 43, 46, 47, etc, and then select from a menu to mark them all as "—" in one edit; then select and mark 37, 41, 45, 49, etc. as "img", and so on.

The index in question is https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Harmonia_ruralis_(Bolton,_1794)_(IA_harmoniaruraliso00bolt).pdf

Event Timeline

Pigsonthewing renamed this task from Pagelist widget should cater for repating patterns; or at least allow multi-select to Pagelist widget should cater for repeating patterns; or at least allow multi-select.Jul 3 2022, 12:46 PM
Kghbln subscribed.

Pretty sure that this is not about the Widgets extension. Replaced it by OOUI though this is only a guess, too.