User:MLauba/DNB in a nutshell

This is a quick & dirty guide to proofreading DNB pages and creating the corresponding articles. We'll be starting from scratch, on a page that has not been touched by any human before.

Proofreading

 * 1) If the scan is completely unreadable, scroll down below the edit summary field, change the page status to blue (Problematic), add  to the page footer. To do so, on your toolbar, press the  [+]  button to expand page headers and footers. Pick another page :)
 * 2) For readable scans: On your toolbar, press the  [+]  button to expand page headers and footers. In the header, transcribe the two names and the page number using the rh template, see for instance This page, which has  as a header.
 * Best practice: make both names bigger using tags, and add  to reproduce the horizontal separator line.
 * 1) Transcribe the page removing any unnecessary line breaks (we transcribe the text as continuous rather than matching the original scans linebreaks) and hyphens
 * 2) In article titles, the subject's name is in full capitals, additional titles are usually written with Small Capitals, use the sc for that. In general, authors of cited works within an article are also in small caps, do the same for these.
 * 3) The references at the end of an article are enclosed within two  tags
 * 4) The initials of the author at the end should be linked using the DNB XYZ template, removing extra dots: eg. T.C. becomes DNB TC
 * 5) If you have properly transcribed an entire page without any issues, change it's status to yellow (proofread). If there were issues, like missing text you couldn't read, leave it pink.
 * 6) Speaking of which, if you cannot make out some letters, simply mark them with two question marks. If you're missing entire words, you may want to prefer Illegible.
 * 7) If there are systematic issues (for instance the scan is simply missing a bit of the left or right side of the page, leaving entire words), make sure you set the page status to blue (Problematic).

Recreating the individual articles
Beyond just transcribing the pages, we also recreate each individual article on its own, using a process called transclusion. If you're not familiar with the term yet, what this means is that we will grab the text from the proofread transcription and display it on the standalone article (as opposed to copy / pasting it). This is how it is done:
 * 1) On each proofread page, every article must be enclosed between a and a tag. The section name between the quotation marks must of course match, and should be a unique variant of the article name. If for instance you have two articles on Anderson, Alexander, their sections should be made distinct using their year of death, eg. "Anderson, Alexander d1811" and "Anderson, Alexander d1619".
 * Note that for articles spanning multiple page, you should add the section begin and section end tags on each page.