User:DutchTreat/projects/wikisource

Use Cases

• linking to English Wikipedia articles, like stubs referring to EB1911

Montaigne in EB1911 from w:Michel de Montaigne

• Citations for Wiktionary: and Wikiquote: entries

wiktionary:Citations:supercilious: The Federalist, No 66/67 p. 468 (1787) and Ivanhoe, Chapter 24 (1820)

wiktionary:Citations:fastidious: Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, "Grayling"

wiktionary:Citations:pique: Jean Wilde Clark, A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery, "Weddings":

Namespaces

• Author: contains two main sections: a listing of "Works" and a biographical "Works about" secions.

• Main: each text is represented by one mainspace article.

• Index: listing of source linked to the PDF/Deja file on Commons plus the listing of all pages with review status.

• Page: side-by-side view for proofreading. The close-up view of the original printed text with original layout and typefaces can be enchanting for book lovers like myself.

• Others: Portal, Projects, Annotations, etc.

Workflow

1. Upload document to Commons

{{ext scan link}}

2. Create Index on WS

{{small scan link}}

3. Fill-in Index: metadata

set preference in Gadgets for autofill

4. Proofread

cleanup gadget added to JS file

Questions

• Q: EB1911 Style Guide

A: See the Project EB1911 Style Guide

• Q: Annotations

A: Difficult even though there have been attempts to make them available.

• Q: Finding authors for EB1911 articles

• Q: Volume of Texts

A: 460,000 (as of Feb 2020) with a large text like EB1911 counted as one.

• Q: Archival material like letters

A: No unpublished works. What is the best way to handle them?

Samples

• A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900) 4 volumes, ed. George Grove

vol. 2, p. 228 (incomplete)

• Pentagon Papers, 7000 pages
• WikiProject Popular Science Monthly, 92 volumes