User:DutchTreat/projects/wikisource

Use Cases

 * linking to English Wikipedia articles, like stubs referring to EB1911
 * Montaigne in EB1911 from Michel de Montaigne


 * Citations for and  entries
 * wiktionary:Citations:supercilious: The Federalist, No 66/67 p. 468 (1787) and Ivanhoe, Chapter 24 (1820)
 * wiktionary:Citations:fastidious: Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, "Grayling"
 * wiktionary:Citations:pique: Jean Wilde Clark, A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery, "Weddings":

Namespaces

 * Author: contains two main sections: a listing of "Works" and a biographical "Works about" secions.


 * Main: each text is represented by one mainspace article.


 * Index: listing of source linked to the PDF/Deja file on Commons plus the listing of all pages with review status.


 * Page: side-by-side view for proofreading. The close-up view of the original printed text with original layout and typefaces can be enchanting for book lovers like myself.


 * Others: Portal, Projects, Annotations, etc.

Workflow
1. Upload document to Commons
 * ext scan link

2. Create Index on WS
 * small scan link

3. Fill-in Index: metadata
 * set preference in Gadgets for autofill

4. Proofread
 * cleanup gadget added to JS file

Questions

 * Q: EB1911 Style Guide
 * A: See the Project EB1911 Style Guide


 * Q: Annotations
 * A: Difficult even though there have been attempts to make them available.


 * Q: Finding authors for EB1911 articles


 * Q: Volume of Texts
 * A: 460,000 (as of Feb 2020) with a large text like EB1911 counted as one.


 * Q: Archival material like letters
 * A: No unpublished works. What is the best way to handle them?

Samples

 * A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900) 4 volumes, ed. George Grove
 * vol. 2, p. 228 (incomplete)


 * Pentagon Papers, 7000 pages
 * WikiProject Popular Science Monthly, 92 volumes