Brad606

A learning Wikisourcer. Feedback or advice on my edits is welcomed! I've been on Wikipedia for awhile, but Wikisource has grabbed my interest.

I've installed and run a personal Mediawiki instance since 2017 that deals with the unification of science, philosophy, and religion. It's impressive software; I'm basically amazed it exists and is as easy to administer and use as it is.

Things I'm working on

The Urantia Book, 1st edition

Index:The Story of Philosophy.pdf A book that re-popularized philosophy, at least briefly, in the 1920s.

Index:Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1st ed, 1813, vol 1).pdf A fine classic novel I've yet to get around to reading. Fully proofread, this needs validating.

Things that have caught my eye I might work on

Index:Buried cities and Bible countries (1891).djvu Well-executed Wikisource style Table of Contents (though using wikiable seems to be the current vogue advice)

Index:Essays on the Higher Education.djvu

Index:The wealth of nations, volume 1.djvu A classic. As of early 2024 proofread but not validated

Sacred Books of the East, Volume 6.

The Study of Sociology. Transcluded from Popular Science Monthly. Already validated but I made a few small corrections. There is a later "library edition" that Spencer considers his best and final version; I may consider that as a separate, new project at some point.

Index:Americans (1922).djvu. . Looks like a writing style comfortable to me and it is a study of Americans I am interested in.

Some one of these: Hamlet (Shakespeare)

Index:William Hazlitt - Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817).djvu Seems like eloquent writing. I could at least validate the characters and plays I know.

Index:Augustus (Shuckburgh) Augustuslifetime0000shuc.pdf. . The Roman emperor during Jesus' early years.

Index:Dickens - A tale of two cities, 1898.djvu. . I adore Dickens and still need to get around to this novel. Might as well validate as I go.

Index:The Victorian Age in Literature.djvu An opinion essay by G.K. Chesterton. Might be a candidate for Match and split

Index:Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology, 1837, volume 1.djvu Buckland is not a geologist/theologist I ever learned of in my geology education (maybe not surprising if it was a materialist conception of reality). I like the title of this.

Index:A dictionary of printers and printing.djvu Seems like a lovely, if lengthy work on the history of printing up until then. The guy did it on nights and weekends, which is commendable. Original scan needs at least one repair.

Index:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1827) Vol 1.djvu Not sure I'll ever get around to this giant tome, but if I do it would deserve full presentation on Wikisource.

The Urantia Book workspace

Vibing with this.

• Improve Contents of the Book formatting using styles.css and Help:Page styles#Tables of contents
• Proofread Parts I and III.
• Block 1 of papers
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• Block 10 of papers (manual inspection)
• Block 11 of pages (front matter; manual inspection, italics check?)

Subpages

• User:Brad606/common.js
• User:Brad606/common.js/typoscan.js
• User:Brad606/sandbox