User talk:Drystubble

Hello, Drystubble, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here. If you need help, see our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). You can discuss or ask questions from the community in general at the Scriptorium. The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page.

I have created Max Havelaar as the top level for this text you are adding. Note that I have tagged it with translator? because we need to know who is the translator of the text that is being submitted to Wikisource. If you need help with any of this, let me know here or on my talk page. John Vandenberg 14:03, 25 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I am the translator. I haven't finished yet - not yet. And I would be pleased if someone corrects my errors. Drystubble 14:24, 25 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Excellent. What edition of the original are you using (i.e. year and publisher) ? John Vandenberg 15:14, 25 October 2007 (UTC)


 * My main source is []. I use it because it is so much easier to translate on the computer screen. However, this text is not true to the original. I have a printed book, published in 1949 by Van Oorschot, Amsterdam, which claims to be the very first exact copy of Multatuli's manuscript, and I give priority to this one if I see a disagreement. Drystubble 15:40, 25 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Great. I have created links between the two main pages.  Regarding your translation, do you wish for it to be a public domain translation (PD-release), or GFDL?  John Vandenberg 16:03, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I searched in the internet for an English translation of this book, but I never found it. That's strange, since the author says (on the last page) that he intends to translate the book into many languages. So I decided to make my own translation. I hope I will be able to finish it, so that the translations's fate will not be like the Dom in Cologne (see Max Havelaar/06).

There is some German poetry in it - the reader is expected to know German. I intend to translate this in two columns: German and English. And the dedication is in French, so that must be translated too.

I invite anyone to correct my errors.

PD-release or GFDL? Oh, I don't know, I'll be satisfied if it is acceptable for Wikisource. Drystubble 21:38, 25 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Either PD-release or GFDL will be acceptable for Wikisource. John Vandenberg 02:50, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, no I don't know the book, but it looks interesting so I am reading it. :-) I'll let you know if I see anything that reads strangely. Cheers, John Vandenberg 10:33, 29 October 2007 (UTC)