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2014

2014 January

 * The Chapter 2 title from The inequality of human races causes me to pause. (2 Jan) Started Chapter 3. (3 Jan)
 * Proofreading (by request) transcription of A History of the Australian Ballot System in the United States (scan) (4 January)
 * Wikilinking authors and works in The Founding of New England chapter III and chapter IV, missing scan, replace front image with better quality scan from IA.
 * Poetry of the Magyars sections "On the Magyar Language" and "Magyar Biographical Sketches" organize/move (18 Jan)
 * Created Author:Gottfried Keller (20 Jan), Author:Stefan George, Author:William Henry Goodyear (21 Jan), Author:Ebenezer Hazard, Author:Henry Otis Thayer, Author:Frank Aydelotte, Author:William Robert Scott, Author:James Phinney Baxter, Author:Alexander Brown . (25 Jan)
 * Babbage's Passages from the Life of a Philosopher internal wikilink TOC pages ix to xii based on work started by User_talk:Jason Boyd. (26 Jan)
 * Validate parts of Handbook of Maritime Rights like page 99.
 * Chatting with User:Aubrey about LucidChart for his WS diagrams. (30 Jan)
 * Welcome committee: User talk:Cassandra Gales, User talk:Doyem7, User talk:Minijackson, User talk:Ekowahyoe77, User talk:IRABOR Bolu, User talk:JohnetteBurkhar, User talk:GaleMeeker, User talk:PAR1138, User talk:Publicgoods, User talk:Engrestoration, ‎ User talk:Seekinglearning,User talk:Melba6416lgq, User talk:SherylNZPmgg, User talk:Tobiasandersenn, ‎ User talk:Nails3, User talk:Helen0506, User talk:LenoraRabinovit, User talk:Marykendall, User talk:Bwillcut, User talk:Dolphin lover44, ‎ User talk:ElizbethTench,User talk:MableChinn,User talk:Jefft0, User talk:Stenskjaer, User talk:Pocket calculator operator, User talk:LondoM, User talk:MarianneCuk, User talk:Gymel, User talk:BerthaDupont, User talk:Dcole7, User talk:Billyhmt, User talk:Jonoleth, User talk:Vishnu banjare satnami, User talk:Zainsaleem89, User talk:Susuh50, User talk:Cloudz679. (25, 26, 31 Jan)

2014 March

 * Wikidata integration see list Maintenance of the Month/Wikidata/Wikipedia authors: Barrows (WP); Barron (WP); Barnhart (WP); Barraclough (WP); Beeching (WP); Bellow (WP); Bellows (WP); Bendall (WP); Benham (WD item created);Bennett (WP) and many more.

2014 April

 * Preparing for feature article for Romanes Lecture


 * Created page Author:Charles Butler (1750-1832). Initially used spaces before and after birth and death years.  (8 April) Later learned that no spaces is preferred. (20 July)


 * Translation of "Chevet" in Dictionary of French Architecture from the 11th to 16th Century from original in French Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle. (9 April)


 * Uploaded Index:The founding of New England (1921).djvu to replace text for The Founding of New England (29 April)


 * CoM March 2014, validation and wikilinking to finish. (19 April)

2014 May
Character of Renaissance Architecture (scan) wikilink on page 89 and others. (6 May)

Seeking the source for the Wolowski quote on page 337 from Lord Acton's Lectures on Modern History (around 25 to 27 May):
 * Wolowski Created author page
 * Roscher was author of Principles of Political Economy, not his son Wilhelm Roscher
 * Lalor was translator of both works including Wolowski's Preliminary Essay on the Historical Method in Political Economy

Should enWS have a copy of Cyclopædia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States edited by Lalor?

Is Cajori's work from 1928 A History Of Mathematical Notations (scan) truly in the public domain? (27 May)

My first introduction to the template: WiktGray used for on page 52 of A History of Mathematics (1893) (29 May)

2014 June
Working on adding DNB to Grove and found a few missing Musical Notation pages in a small work: Index:Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Grove).djvu My first attempt on pages 27 and 28 at using the tag and Help:Sheet music. No luck yet.

Put PD-US-no-renewal on A History Of Mathematical Notations published in 1928 from Cajori who died in 1930. Did the copyright renewal search and found nothing. (4 June) Added similar tag on file on Commons (5 June)

Found Burke from a wonderful quote on curiosity in On the Sublime and Beautiful: "curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually, ..." from Chapter 1: Novelty (5 June). Found and partly fixed errors in his DNB entry on page 350. Realizing how extensive some of these articles can be. Thinking about to bring this goodness to the world. Media of choice could be video or animated SVG fly-thru books and pages with narration.

Enhance Foreign Language Education Using WikiSource - researching idea to see if it can spawn a new project which applies across sister WMF sites including WP and WQ. Start with a Italian language class taught in a US secondary school given my friend is a teacher of Italian. Inspired by the enWS translations of French at Dictionary of French Architecture from the 11th to 16th Century. See also:
 * 1) Why Wikipedia Does Belong in the Classroom by Jonathan Obar September 2012. "The proper place of social media in the classroom remains a mystery to most people, with Wikipedia standing as the biggest, baddest new media nemesis of them all."
 * 2) WMF Wikipedia Education Program: Case Study: Translation (Spanish)
 * 3) English Wikipedia pages tagged for needing needing content from other languages: w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki/Italian;  w:Category:Articles needing translation from Italian Wikipedia;  w:Wikipedia:Featured articles in other languages; Translation of the week; w:Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English; w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Italy section for requested pages
 * 4) WikiQuotes featured in Italian better than English version, see Anne Hathaway;
 * 5) Wikiconference USA: Wikipedia, Medicine and Language on the need for medical translations to help medical professionals around the world.  I didn't realize how often WP was used by doctors until this presentation!;
 * 6) w:Wikipedia:Translation and w:Wikipedia:Student_assignments
 * 7) w:Wikipedia:Education Working Group/RfC

Comparing The Travels of Marco Polo to Italian original The Million. Useful for students? (7 June)

Using RAMP Editor to create Ezra Booth and Louis-François-Michel-Reymond Wolowski. Background article describes the purpose and motivation, "From Finding Aids to Wiki Pages: Remixing Archival Metadata with RAMP" (11 June)

Éloges historiques de Bonnet et de Saussure (1810) by Cuvier on French Wikisource. Boldly, given my French is pedestrian, added this work to the French WS site's author page: fr:Auteur:Georges Cuvier. Found work from quote in Lord Acton's Lectures on Modern History page 337. Always enjoyable to find the citation already on the site. Learning experience when it's in a different language. On frES, they use a template called L2S for describing a work.

Created EB1911 entries for Thomas Simon and Simon Ben Yoḥai. The Latin extended character 'h' with a dot below caused me some trouble. Should it be used? (12-13 June)

Created author pages for George Vertue and T. E. Thorpe. Expanded Horace Walpole and Humphry Davy. Considering if author page for engraver Thomas Simon is appropriate. (14 June)

Author:Antoine Barnave created author page (16 June)

For Intro to ethics by Jouffroy with translation from French by Channing - created author pages Author:Théodore Simon Jouffroy and Author:William Henry Channing (21-22 June)

EB1911 Volume 7: DANNECKER, JOHANN HEINRICH VON (1758-1841), DANNEWERK, and DANSVILLE. Working up ton Dante. (24 June)

Ouch, my first revert: Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 21.djvu/694. I try to keep a clean record, but no longer a perfect one. This edit came from my early days when I didn't know about all of the templates unique to WS. Watch out when trying to proofread the PSM. (26 June)

Looking at edit tools for common.js: User:Alex brollo/Editing tools.

2014 July

 * Created common.js with cleanup. Still unreliable upon loading from Page namespace. (1 July)


 * Daniel Bernoulli uses w:Wikipedia:Rouse History of Mathematics and copy of EB1911 not from enWS. This link can be improved by a citation to our entry on enWS.  (2 July)


 * Entries in EB1911 volume 15 page 523 used on Author:Théodore Simon Jouffroy. (4 July)


 * Researching José Ortega y Gasset at José Ortega y Gasset. (6 July)


 * Expand Author:Otto Heller: to do add Wikipedia page, fix up wikidata, add Ibsen (1912), Otto Heller Papers 1890-1961 at WUA University Archives! (8 July)


 * Refer to User:Dominic/Missing Wikipedia links to find Otto Heller and others. A good WS community water fountain. (8 July)


 * Quote from Leo Tolstoy on WS in Family Happiness Part I, Chapter V, added to WikiQuote (14 July)


 * Found comment on Wikiquote about the poor quality of WS text. The example given was Jowett's translation of Plato's The Republic.  Should we host other editions? -  "Links to external hosts of complete works" q:Wikiquote:Village pump archive 37 (15 July)


 * Helping Author:Charles Butler (1750-1832) page on Wikipedia with links to WS. (21 July) Note, article move to remove spaces around year.


 * Helping validate a few pages of The Russian School of Painting after seeing the request on the FcM page. (22 July)


 * Expand Author:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve beyond only one work from NSRW. Connected to The Sappho of Bliss Carman and Shiller, which led to WS translation Ode to Joy. Should this be moved into the translation namespace? (23 July)


 * The Harvard Classics; Lectures on The Harvard Classics, Volume 51 offers a misleading name. Thinking it should be renamed Lectures on The Harvard Classics and drop the "Volume 51".  See complete set of books at Harvard Classics.  How many do we have already? I may create an manifest for them.  Created wikilinks from several author's "About" section to chapters from these lectures: Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill and John Woolman. (24 July)


 * Author:Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin created from the Russian Paintings Feature candidate (27 July)


 * Author:John Eliot (missionary) and Author:John Eliot (statesman) add internal about links for DNB and EB1911. (28 July)


 * Researching miasma (Greek mythology) - seeking Atreus and Thyestes from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Atreus found on page 407 (29 July)

2014 August

 * Expanding works by Author:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. Found this text with Pascal to be a good one to add to WS: Essays on men and women (1892)  (1 August)


 * Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Q. Atrius to Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Atropates (7 August)


 * Improving Author:Johann Sebastian Bach. Found Author:Alfred Maczewski and need for new author page for translator Author:Charles Sanford Terry (9 August)


 * Dreaming up a new way to visualize Recent Changes data stream as a dashboard in HTML 5. Associate Index/Pages changes by multiple users to highlight and encourage collaboration. (19 August)


 * Authors of mathematics wikilinked at Book of References (page 14) and (page 15) in A History of Mathematics (1893). Expand links for Author:George James Allman and found Men of the Time, eleventh edition. Expand Author:George Bruce Halsted with great handlebar moustache! (22-23 August)


 * completed, great joy and relief. This was a longer work which I started on June 24. (23 August)


 * Author:Henri Poincaré finding PSM articles about him (23 August)


 * Created Author:Charles Sanford Terry link to historian on WP. However, there is another Charles S. Terry that was a translator. (23 August)


 * Wiktionary should use WS for sourcing usage much like OED. See kilter and "The Man from Eldorado" and Vailima Letters/Chapter XXV (23 August)


 * Cool character with a great caricature for Author:John Morley and started on TOC for monumental work by F. C. A History Of Mathematical Notations at (27 August)


 * One more entry from volume 7 - (27 August)


 * Add q. v. links on DNB using DNB lkpl at Herschel, John Frederick William (DNB00) (29 August)

2014 September

 * Horace Hart created, expanding August Comte and George Lewes with The history of philosophy from Thales to Comte (9 September)
 * Les Fonctions Mentales dans les Sociétés Inférieures completed Review of book by Levy-Bruhl in Folk-Lore volume 23 (23 September)
 * completed after 20 days (10 to 30 September)
 * Working on List of Contributors for EB1911 in the "R" to "S" section page 976 to 978. (30 September)

2014 October

 * Organizing new subpage for Quotes and moving some content to Portals page. (1 October)
 * Reason in Common Sense fixed heading near famous quote on page 284. Is to ok to use EB1911 Shoulder Heading in works outside of EB? I would like to see the WP article on Santayana link to WS! (2 October)
 * List of Illustrations in Biographical Dictionary of America, Vol 1 (13 October)
 * List of Contributors in Biographical Dictionary of America, Vol 1 (14 October)

2014 November

 * Poem "Queen Mab" page 754 by Shelley due to a reference at page 37 in The inequality of human races (2 Nov) Quote: "Nature rejects the monarch, not the man..." Canto III, line 170. page 764 (7 Nov) Continue to page 757 (12 Nov)
 * Searching for author citations from page 338 of Lectures on Modern History. Found nothing on WS for Gotthard Oswald Marbach and Dr. D. Saul (12 Nov)
 * Translations of works by Plato, sparked by Talk:Timaeus and User:Geekdiva. See Author:Benjamin Jowett, Perseus, [translations of works already in Wikisource], page 62 (IA), page 54 (IA), page n9 (IA), Dialogues (IA) (13 Nov) "Benjamin Jowett's interpretive vernacular translation (1871) of Plato's Republic" from Mathematicians. More on this system of Stephanus pagination. Quote "the best translation for The Republic was by Allan Bloom." from Benjamin Jowett's Plato in Ancient History section of LibraryThing forum. (14 Nov)
 * Idea for discussion at Wikisource Community User Group: post 1-3 ideas for (a) existing WS to sister programs success, (b) future plans for project to start yourself (looking for help) or (c) ideas for someone else to adopt. Crowdsource the best ways to strength the bond between WS and other wiki projects and to offer a vehicle to share and communicate ongoing work. (15 Nov)
 * Found translator for The Red and The Black by Stenadhal is Modernities Samuel, Horace Barnett, 1883- (15 Nov)
 * Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922) page 53 (21 Nov) Creates entries for Avarice, Awkwardness, Ayr, Azalea (23 Nov)
 * Babies (quotes) refers to page 54 from Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), improve linking? (23 Nov)
 * Author:Vittorio Alfieri page created - Change (quotes) refers to Reason for Changing his Democratic Opinions in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96. (23 Nov)
 * Author:Richard Gall, Author:Samuel Lover and Author:Robert Pollok pages created. (25 Nov)
 * Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, volume 5 - Contents. See This too shall pass quote on page 273. (26 Nov)

2014 December

 * 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Carol found on same page as Author:Elme-Marie Caro while researching Page:Lectures on Modern History.djvu/345 (1 Dec)
 * Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln improve TOC in vol 5 using vol 4 as reference (2 Dec); building volume 5 in main namespace and linking to "This Too Shall Pass" (13 Dec)
 * Thinking more about the annotation from multiple different editors: The Annotated "Ulysses"/Page 003 (5 Dec)
 * Proofread notes for Nietzsche the thinker by William Mackintire Salter (7 Dec)
 * DNB [q. v.] links using DNB lkpl for son Fletcher, John (1579-1625) (DNB00), father Fletcher, Richard (d.1596) (DNB00) and ; Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) (DNB00)