Samwilson
Joined 23 January 2008
I'm a reader, sitting with my laptop in the coffeeshops of Freo, enjoying both the old tech of bound books and the new of wiki interaction—and the jolly fun conversion of texts between the two (as in: paper → scans → Wikisource → pagination → printer → signatures → paper → binding).
I'm a Software Engineer with the WMF Community Tech team. My official account is User:SWilson (WMF). I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, but this is my personal account. Edits, statements, or other contributions made from this account are my own, and may not reflect the views of the Foundation.
For my movement-wide user profile, please see Meta:User:Samwilson. I'm also on the #wikisource IRC channel as 'samwilson', if you want to chat.
My ProjectsEdit
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Some things that I've helped with, and why…
- Terræ-filius: or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford: I wanted to add a citation to Wiktionary:Golgotha of the first recorded use of that term as meaning the rooms of the heads of colleges, because someone queried whether I'd just made it up. So I started transcribing the whole work.
- The West Australian and other newspapers: The Fremantle local history collection has been keeping clippings from newspapers for sixty years or more, and a few years ago I started a database of these. Many from before 1954 (i.e. the public domain ones) are available on Trove, so I've an idea of adding some of these issues to Wikisource.
- Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects by Joseph Whitworth: Contains one of the original papers about mechanically flattening reference plates (which activity I am, from time to time, engaged in: three great slabs of granite and umpteen rounds of grinding…).
- Base Facilities Report: In 2011 an old US Navy laundry building in Fremantle was scheduled for demolition, and the history of the US Navy's 'occupation' of Fremantle was brought to public attention. This was one of the documents used to determine what else was extant from those days (nothing) and to help the case for the retention of the shed.
- The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919: Proofread, because sometimes it's nice to sit and read.
- Twilight (Frankau): Proofread (or 'smoothread', as Project Gutenbergians call it) after it was the PotM for June 2012.
- History of West Australia by W. B. Kimberly: Proofread because I live here, and also saw a few typographical errors in the first few pages.
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: Probably the best-proofread book I've read from Wikisource (i.e. required the fewest fixes post-validation).
- p. 58: "I always think it's living, not dying, that counts. I really respect some snuffy old stockbroker who's gone on adding up column after column all his days, and trotting back to his villa at Brixton with some old pug dog he worships, and a dreary little wife sitting at the end of the table, and going off to Margate for a fortnight—I assure you I know heaps like that—well, they seem to me really nobler than poets whom every one worships, just because they're geniuses and die young. But I don't expect you to agree with me!"
- Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia: A six-part serial published in the The Perth gazette and Western Australian journal. Part of a project to add Noongar language material to Wiktionary.
- Live and Let Live: Proofread; only a couple of dozen corrections.
- Moll Flanders and Roxana: Quite a lot of typos in this one; so many that I only read the first book of the two in this work. I do like reading 18th century novels though.
- A Bride from the Bush.
- Twelve Years a Slave.
- Howards End:
- “To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”
- — p.35, a thought of Margaret’s.
- “You remember ‘rent’? It was one of father’s words — Rent to the ideal, to his own faith in human nature. You remember how be would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say, ‘It’s better to be fooled than to be suspicious.’ — that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.”
- — p.41, Margaret again.
- “To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”
- Haworth's.
- The Lodger.
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (emended 1st edition).
- An Australian Parsonage (1872)
. - King Solomon's Mines (1907) : Another one with unneccessary hyperlinks for normal words. Not a very good book either. Hardly any typos to fix though!
- Index:W S Hall diary Aug 1863 - Dec 1865.pdf
- Index:1843 Almanack
- Index:John Hill Munday's notebook
- Fathers of Men (1912)
- A Child of the Jago (1896)
To smoothreadEdit
MetaEdit
- Category:Index Validated
- Where to get more things to read. See also the ws-cat-browser tool.
- Random things I want for Wikisource
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- A single Flow board for each book (and redirect every talk page for the book—mainspace, subpages, index page, page NS pages, etc.)
- A way to add all of a books pages (as above) to ones watchlist
- Migrate the {{author}} and {{header}} templates to Lua and populate them from Wikidata (see Module:Author, Module:Work, and Module:Edition)
- Flow for the Scriptorium
- An import wizard (see phab:T154413)
Subpages & scriptsEdit
See also: Wikisource:Tools and scripts
- /LinkedLintErrors.js
- Adds a sidebar link which shows a list of lint errors for the current page and every page linked from it. Should work on all Wikimedia projects. To use, add this to your global.js page on Meta:
mw.loader.load('//en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Samwilson/LinkedLintErrors.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); - /PageCleanUp.js
- Adds a toolbar button to clean up OCR text. This is a fork of part of MediaWiki:TemplateScript/proofreading.js, to reimplement it as a toolbar button. To use, add this to your common.js page:
mw.loader.load('//en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Samwilson/PageCleanUp.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); - /CurlyQuotes.js
- Adds a toolbar button for converting all quotation marks, apostrophes, and dashes to their correct nicer typographical selves. To use, add this to your common.js page:
mw.loader.load('//en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Samwilson/CurlyQuotes.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); - /FullScreenEditing.js
- Adds a toolbar button to switch to full-screen editing in the proofreading interface. To use, add this to your common.js page:
mw.loader.load('//en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Samwilson/FullScreenEditing.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); - /common.js
- My scripty bits, hacking up the editing form to fit it all on my little screen.
- /common.css
- My stylesheet modifications; see also Meta:User:Samwilson/global.css. I use the WikisourceMono font for proofreading.
- /tmp
- Scratch pad.
Recently validatedEdit
Recent additions to Wikisource:
- 13 October 2019: Index:Southern Historical Society Papers volume 08.djvu
- 13 October 2019: Index:Philosophical Transactions - Volume 001.djvu
- 13 October 2019: Index:English for Teachers.djvu
- 13 October 2019: Index:United Nations Resolution No. 69-131 (International Day of Yoga).djvu
- 13 October 2019: Index:New Monthly Memoir 1837.pdf
- 13 October 2019: Index:"The Mummy" Volume 1.djvu
- 13 October 2019: Index:Open access addendum for authors to publishers.pdf
- 12 October 2019: Index:Cope December 6th 1870.pdf
- 12 October 2019: Index:Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila (Haklyut, 34).djvu
- 12 October 2019: Index:Landon in The London Literary Gazette 1821.pdf
- 12 October 2019: Index:OTTO WEININGER (THEODOR LESSING) english translation.pdf
- 11 October 2019: Index:Optimum height for the bursting of a 105mm shell.pdf
- 10 October 2019: Index:Battle of Minderoo.pdf
- 6 October 2019: Index:8 King Street Bristol full page.jpg
- 6 October 2019: Index:NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, United Airlines Flight 389.pdf
- 6 October 2019: Index:The Bride of Lindorf.pdf
- 6 October 2019: Index:Kepler(1920).djvu
- 4 October 2019: Index:On Secondary Instruction, as relating to Girls.djvu
- 2 October 2019: Index:116th United States Congress H. Res.0109 (1st session) - Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.pdf
- 1 October 2019: Index:Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky telephone conversation memorandum.pdf
- 28 September 2019: Index:Rimini Street, Inc., et al. v. Oracle USA Inc., et al..pdf
- 23 September 2019: Index:Scouting for girls, adapted from Girl guiding.djvu
- 21 September 2019: Index:Floating City (1904).djvu
- 20 September 2019: Index:The Black Man's Lament or How To Make Sugar.pdf
- 20 September 2019: Index:The Story Without an End.djvu
- 18 September 2019: Index:Casket.pdf
- 18 September 2019: Index:Winn-A Legend.jpg
- 17 September 2019: Index:Zodiac stories by Blanche Mary Channing.pdf
- 17 September 2019: Index:A Picture by Hieronymus Bosch.djvu
- 17 September 2019: Index:Treaty respecting the Independence and Territorial Integrity of Norway.pdf
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