Peteforsyth

Photo by Ellis Christopher, licensed CC BY.

I'm Pete Forsyth.

In April 2020 the Signpost published my essay on why Wikipedia's history matters to the study of collaboration:

Trusting Everybody to Work Together

For more about me, please see my profile on English Wikipedia.

Wikisource projects

Awards for contribution

	Proofread of the Month September 2011 Ninety-three

	Proofread of the Month November 2011 Special: Validation month

	Proofread of the Month January 2012 A Desk-Book of Errors in English

	Proofread of the Month February 2012 Natural History, Mollusca

	Proofread of the Month July 2012 A Wayfarer in China

	Proofread of the Month November 2014 Special: Validation month 26 works

	Proofread of the Month December 2016 True Stories of Girl Heroines

Oregon

Encyclopedia articles about Oregon

• 1879 American Cyclopaedia
• "Oregon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
• 1914 New Student's Reference Work
• 1921 Collier's New Encyclopedia
• "Oregon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)

Modoc War

• History of Oregon (Bancroft)/Volume 2/Chapter 22
• Indian History of the Modoc War

Oregon Historical Quarterly

• Complete (but need validation): volumes Vol. 1 through 4, 7. Other volumes in progress.

Marcus Whitman

• Victor's initial error in The River of the West and Eleven Years...
• Frances Fuller Victor in Oregonian Nov. 7, 1884
• Ross, Eells, Gray: The Whitman Controversy (1885)
• Eells: (transcription project) (note many images)
• Eells: (external scan)
• Nixon: How Marcus Whitman saved Oregon (note many images) (1895)
• Victor: San Francisco Call/1895/How Oregon Was Saved (1895)
• Nixon: San Francisco Call/1895/How Dr. Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon (1895)
• History vs. the Whitman saved Oregon story (1904)
• Nixon: Whitman's ride through savage lands, with sketches of Indian life (1905)

• Whitman reading list from Seattle Public Library

• The Legend of Marcus Whitman and the Transformation of the American Historical Profession by Sarah Koenig

Other

• Oregon, My Oregon (state song -- music transcription
• Memoirs of Henry Villard/Volume 2/Book 8
• Oregon Constitution
• Olmsted report on Portland, Oregon parks from 1903
• Address at Oregon Bar Association annual meeting (F. V. Holman)
• Constitution-Mending and the Initiative
• State vs. National Control of Public Forests from the viewpoint of a western state
• Proclamation of June 19, 1846 and Oregon Treaty
• Index:Report of the Oregon Conservation Commission to the Governor (1908 - 1914).djvu, Prepared by Joseph N. Teal.
• Index:Protection afforded by volunteers of Oregon and Washington Territories to overland immigrants in 1854.pdf
• Works of Joseph Nathan Teal
• Centennial History of Oregon
• Portland, Oregon: Its History and Builders
• Oregon: Her history, her great men, her literature (Horner 1919)
• Final Report - The Columbia River Interstate Bridge
• Index:Looters of the Public Domain.djvu
• Leaves of Knowledge
• Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains & A History of the Sioux War by Frances Fuller Victor

  Note: Here's a transcription of The River of the West

• History of Oregon Newspapers
• The Oregon Trail

Open education

• Cape Town Open Education Declaration
• Open Education Resources (OER) for assessment and credit for students project
• Guidelines for Open Educational Resources in Higher Education
• A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources
• Index:A Review of the Open Educational Resources Movement.pdf
• Index:The potential of Open Educational Resources.pdf

Wikimedia

• The cartoon: What can I upload to Wikimedia Commons? (for the Upload Wizard on Wikimedia Commons)
• Review of Governance of Wikimedia UK
• Assessing the accuracy and quality of Wikipedia entries compared to popular online encyclopaedias
• Belfer Center Wikipedian Summary
• Funding Free Knowledge the Wiki Way - Wikimedia Foundation Participatory Grantmaking

Miscellaneous free culture

• Index:Wireless Networking in the Developing World (WNDW) Third Edition.pdf

Miscellaneous government & politics

• Aircraft Accident Report for Buddy Holly's crash
• Intelligence Memorandum: Allende's Chile: The Widening Supply-Demand Gap
• NIOSH Hazard Review: Carbonless Copy Paper
• Full disclosure: The perils and promise of transparency

Miscellaneous literature

• You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters by Ring Lardner

Miscellaneous history

• History of Warren County including History of Warren County/History of Johnsburgh
• Index:Hungarians Successfully Conduct Cooperative Mine.pdf
• What's the Matter with Kansas?

To do

• Sunset (magazine) between 1912 (when it merged with The Pacific Monthly) and 1920 (2nd ownership change)
• Index:The Early Indian Wars of Oregon.djvu by Frances Fuller Victor
• commons:Category:Creative Commons Newsletter
• Homer Davenport autobiography, with illustrations: [1]
• Get these photos IA

Stuff to explore

• http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html (and Rare & Special Books) from Doug
• Author:Hubert Howe Bancroft (at least write an intro indicating contribution of Frances Fuller Victor) Done
• Frederick Law Olmsted's article: The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Park Done (still needs a good proofread)
• About Google Books and their technical decisions: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/32611.pdf
• Washington State Library has many original texts, inlcuding IWW, pioneer women's narratives,etc.

Fun

• Fake news! Scientific American/Series 1/Volume 1/Issue 1/Improvement in Oregon

For future reference

• Converting JP2 to PNG: I have finally found a pretty convenient way of doing this on Ubuntu Linux. (Previously, I made use of online conversion tools like convert.io, which is inconvenient for many reasons.)
  1. Install the package img2pdf
  2. Download or unzip the JP2 file you want to convert.
  3. On the command line, go to the directory containing the JP2 file.
  4. Run the command, with the following syntax: img2pdf file.jp2 -o file.pdf
  5. Now, open the PDF file in Atril Document Viewer. (If you're unsure whether you grabbed the correct page from the archive, this is where you can check.) (Perhaps other PDF readers would work as well, I'm not sure.)
  6. Right-click on the image, and choose "save image." Save it as a .png
• Better method: Wikisource:Scriptorium/Help/Archives/2018#Converting_Jp2_files_for_upload_to_Commons

  opj_decompress -ImgDir . -OutFor PNG

• A good diff for a screenshot, illustrating cleanup of OCR: [2]
• A good example of an article with value added through contextual (internal and external) linking: San Tzu Ching/San Tzu Ching
• Dealing with non-free images in transcriptions of freely licensed works (EDP / exemption doctrine policy)
• Getting bots to start pages from OCR
• convert a folder of JP2 files to PNG (in Ubuntu-based linux): opj_decompress -ImgDir . -OutFor PNG (see WS:H from June 2018)
• overfloat formatting see history at Page:History of Oregon Newspapers.pdf/260‎
• Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/2016-10#Exemption_Doctrine_Policy_(EDP) (thanks @Slowking4: for the link!)
• Table to build transcluded chapters, ping Mpaa Wikisource:Scriptorium/Help/Archives/2019#Tools_for_building_transclusion_pages?
• Sept. 2021: Get images for Teaaeea.
• Instructions on how to make a mass deletion request at the WS:Administrators' noticeboard from Xover: Special:PermaLink/12118715
• Ordered lists: [3]
• {{auto parents}}

To extract and replace text in a djvu file:

• djvused -e 'output-all' file.djvu > file.dsed
• djvused -f file.dsed -s file.djvu
• Here's a bit of info: http://www.ub-filosofie.ro/~solcan/wt/gnu/d/hdjv.html
• This is useful for just extracting the text (e.g. for M&S): djvused myfile.djvu -e 'print-pure-txt'

• An interesting instance of CC dedication by an author's estate: A Tribute and a Claim

Rename on GNU/Linux command line

$ ls
23-aa hello aaa23-aa
$ rename 's/^[0-9]*-//;' *
$ ls
aa hello aaa23-aa

Search non-transcribed pages

Enter page: subpageof:"Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf" gleanings into the search field. The first bit is the namespace, the second the wikipage name minus the namespace prefix, and the last is your search term. Page names with spaces in them must be enclosed in quote marks (as is the case here). (per Xover/WS:S)

and put new text between the two slashes