Wikisource:Maintenance/Tasks

Maintenance type

Text & content
Copyright
Date
Language
Missing elements
Source
Structure
Templates

Easy

These tasks are relatively straight-forward and should not take too long to complete.

Texts with page numbers‎ (Pages requiring attention: 20)

Directions

Remove the page numbers and breaks (which probably come from un-proofread OCR text). If the OCR errors are too frequent, this might require deletion.

Examples

1. Oversight Hearing on the "10th Anniversary of the Congressional Review Act."
2. On the Will in Nature
3. O.K. v. George W. Bush
4. The Crimes of Alexander Borgia
5. The Story of Isaac Brock: Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada
6. The Old Testament in the Jewish Church
7. A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations
8. The Castaway (Rives)
9. The Girl That Disappears
10. The French Revolution

Texts without page numbers‎ (Pages requiring attention: 0)

Directions

Examples

Texts requiring OCR fixes‎ (Pages requiring attention: 47)

Directions

Correct the OCR errors, with reference to a source text. If the OCR errors are too frequent or there is no source available, this might require deletion.

Examples

1. 1997 Special Investigation in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns/Section 7
2. 1997 Special Investigation in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns/Section 10
3. Holiday Magic, Inc. v. Warren (357 F.Supp. 20)
4. Holiday, Inc. v. Holiday Magic 59 C.C.P.A. 996, 458 F.2d 152
5. Dotter v. Maine Employment Sec. Commission 435 A.2d 1368
6. Rescuing the Czar
7. The Sentiment of the Sword/The Ninth Evening
8. The Sentiment of the Sword/The Eighth Evening
9. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah
10. Washington and the Riddle of Peace

Texts requiring reference fixes‎ (Pages requiring attention: 5)

Directions

Identify references and footnotes included as part of the body of the text. Format them correctly per Help:Footnotes and endnotes.

Examples

1. Against Jovinianus
2. Venus in Furs
3. A Moslem Seeker after God
4. The Sexual Life of the Child
5. A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations

No reference tag (Pages requiring attention: 4)

Directions

When <ref> tags are put on a page they need to be specifically cited on a page; add {{smallrefs}}, or a similar template, to the bottom of the page, above the licence template and categories.

Examples

Needs wikifying‎ (Pages requiring attention: 13)

Directions

These works need to have wikilinks added to appropriate pages on Wikisource, Wiktionary or Wikipedia. See Wikisource:Wikilinks for guidance on appropriate wikilinking.

Examples

1. Ashtavakra Gita
2. Ten Days That Shook the World/Appendices
3. Uniform Parental Rights Enforcement and Protection Act
4. US House Resolution 333
5. Helsinki Final Act
6. The Economic Development of the Jewish People
7. Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2001
8. Anglo-Iraqi Treaty
9. National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995
10. Mineral Law of Vietnam, 2010

Hard

These tasks will take more time to complete in full.

Nonstandard texts (Pages requiring attention: 731)

Directions

These pages do not meet Wikisource's style guide and need to be cleaned up.
There is a large range of possible problems so the time and effort necessary to fix these pages will vary from page to page.

Examples

1. Conveyance of lands by the Native American Chiefs of the Five Nations
2. Use of free software in public agencies
3. Treaty with the Chippewa Made at the Fond du Lac of Lake Superior, 1826.
4. The Internationale (Pottier, English)
5. F. R. Benson's Richard II
6. Microsoft Research DRM talk
7. 9/11 Commission Report/Chapter 2
8. 9/11 Commission Report/Chapter 3
9. 9/11 Commission Report/Chapter 4
10. 9/11 Commission Report/Chapter 5

Migrated texts requiring clean up‎ (Pages requiring attention: 70)

Directions

These pages have been migrated to a DjVu-based scan but still contain OCR errors, or similar problems, that need to be resolved.
See Help:Proofread.

Examples

1. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
2. Poemata Minora, Volume II
3. North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
4. The Pearl of Great Price (1913)
5. Seventy-two resolutions
6. The Visions and Prophecies of Zechariah
7. Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought and Learning
8. Wild Animals I Have Known
9. Secret Diplomacy
10. The Journal of Leo Tolstoy