Awards for participation

Proofread of the Month
November 2015

Special: Validation month


Wikisource has a number of active Wikiprojects that could use
your help in tackling these large additions to our library.


New Student's Reference Work Project
Work: New Student's Reference Work

The current Proofread of the Month is

More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary  (1927)
by Montague Rhodes James.

Last month completed: A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand

The next scheduled collaboration will begin in January.

Project guideline

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User:Zoeannl/The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Books

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Disambiguation

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  • Author:Thomas Wright is (1810–1877); also 1711-86 (astronomy) and 1809-1884, (morning and evening prayers), 1822-1910 (surgeon, natural historian), 1809-1884 (physiology, natural historian)

Create Transcription Project

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Proofreading

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For Beginners

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Long s’s

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ToC To Do

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Indexes to do

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Ads to do

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Images

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Poetry

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Transclusion

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Libraries

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Carrie Chapman Catt, early sufferagette

Wikisource_talk:Annotations, Wikisource:Annotations

Match and split

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Validation projects

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User:Beleg_Tâl has a list of projects

Translation projects

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Wikisource:DoubleWiki Extension Author:René Primevère Lesson referenced by Darwin. No translations found on IA or google search.

User lists

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Portals

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Wikiprojects

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Need fixing

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Periodicals

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Authors

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James Maurice Wilson

Portals

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Publishers

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See w:Jacques_Cattell

Archives

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Texts without scans

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Categories

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  • proofreading promised - books to upload; index to fix;
  • {{missing image}}; {{greek missing}} etc "level 2 proofreading"
  • transclusion needed - links to make - external (WP) references + internal e.g. index, contents
  • (v) short work

Exemplars

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General editing

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<section begin=Ennn /> At the top of the page where one article ends and another begins.
<section end=Ennn /><section begin=Bnnn /> This indicates the end of the previous section and the beginning of the new article.
<section end=Bnnn /> At the bottom of the page. This appends the beginning of the new article to the rest of the article.

User

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  • User:xxx/common.js

Basic notes

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  • Login
  • Click up arrow to get to page index
  • Click page number
  • Click Edit tab
  • Show preview


Templates

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  • Templates: some work in Main-, some in Page space
  • Templates spanning pages
  • Templates used-shows templates (click triangle arrow at bottom of page for list)
  • Template pages-click templates used to go to template page
Template:tl Displays template name and links to template page
What links here-click Tools on side bar for examples of use.
User:Pppery wiki gnome does templates, lists properly et al

Scripts

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works per page

pathoschild (Jesse) go to man

Documentation including how-to at TemplateScript

Bots

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works per file

  • reference bot, searches books referenced in WP: adds links to WP
  • reference bot searches for WP articles in public domain, add to wishlist
  • Scanno bot: should be run at all pages proofread stage.
  • red link bot - picks up template typos
  • reference bot- collates links within book

m:Manual:Creating_a_bot

script

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tutorials

html + css

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w:List_of_Latin_phrases should be in wikiquotes wikt:Appendix:List_of_Latin_phrases
Greeks
Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo. Kepler on La.Wikisource-how to shortcut?
  • wiktionary could trawl Wikisource texts (start with dictionaries and encycl.s), link [wikt: and then have sources through What links here.

Book link Template

Input: Book-->automatic search for other references in wikisource, wikipedia, wikiquote etc. in right column. Special:What links here

Prompts for- (pull-down menu)not applicable/unknown/options-suggestive and predictive text (based on common usage in wiki)

Author
Gender, Ethnicity/Nationality, Scholarly Qualification &/or Affiliation, Wikipedia article
Publisher -->Portal
Date
Year, decade, century, era, epoch, etc; automatic out of copyright/year copyright runs out -->category
Optional Place if significant
Other, proposed option

-->Bibliography of xxx

Category

Pull-down menu of categories

Author/Publisher/Place/date/
Automatic check for match with existing categorised books (e.g. women authors)
Fiction/Non-fiction/Biographies etc
Subject categories
Library classification systems
Wiki works tree

Texts by reading level

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Is there a site where we could input text file and get reading level assessment, vocabulary list etc.?