User talk:Jen8000

Welcome!
Glad to have you on board. You can leave a note on my Talk page any time, or drop me a line. Looking forward to getting more volunteers interested in proofreading West Coast books so together we can make a dent in that back catalogue. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:09, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Bee-Culture is ready to go
Hi Jenny,

Isaac Hopkins' Bee-Culture is available for proofreading at Index:Bee-Culture Hopkins 2nd ed revised Dec 1907.pdf. Do you have the OCR tool turned on in Preferences > Gadgets > Editing Tools for Page? If so you can OCR some of the remaining pages that need text. I'll be working on scanning nice versions of the drawings and photos for inserting into the text, so just leave a gap for those. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:42, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Mike. Yes, you did explain that to me on Saturday. Jen8000 (talk) 23:47, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi Mike. Just validated the Cover Page of Bee-Culture so it's now all; ready to go. That was a great one for us newbies to get into. Jen8000 (talk) 05:11, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello again. I've just had a look at Emerald Hours in New Zealand. There doesn't seem to be an 'Edit' button on any of the pages except pages 24 & 29. Can you explain how to get that button please? Or have I just missed something? Jen8000 (talk) 05:24, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Through South Westland
Hi Jen8000. We just met on the Wikisource Whereby meetup where I asked to validate David's proofreading. Unfortunately, my attempt on page 119 did not work correctly and I lost the curly " and " and only discovered after I'd validated. I therefore undid both those edits and would be pleased if you are happy to take the validating job on. I think I need to read GFB's blog and re-group before going any further with Wikisource. --Oronsay (talk) 03:04, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Happy to do that for you. (You must be Ann?) Shall I let you know how I get on?Jen8000 (talk) 03:09, 15 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's me. Thanks, Jen8000. I hadn't put this page on my Watchlist, so only just dropped in now. And, I'm delighted to see that you have very nearly finished this book. Well done! and thank you:-)--Oronsay (talk) 23:08, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

News from the West Coast Task Force
ELLO from our West Coast Wikisource project. There's been quite a bit uploaded recently, so a quick list of things you might be interested in helping with.
 * Baughan, Blanche Edith. (1898). Verses. A medium-sized poetry collection; the table of contents has been created but otherwise lots of poems to transcribe.
 * — (1912). Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven: Being Sketches of Up-country Life in New Zealand. Short stories evoking colonial life, easy to transcribe but lots of apostrophes (which we should try and do as curly single quotes). I love the little illustrations in this one—it would be great to get them in Commons in high res.
 * — (1923). Poems from the Port Hills. Very short poetry book; try out your poetry formatting.
 * Drummond, James. (1907.) The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon. We've solved the problem of the missing page, so it's now a matter of proofing and validating the text. I need to upload the plates into Commons.
 * Faris, Irwin. (1941). Charleston: Its Rise and Decline. The photos are all in Commons and just need to be inserted into pages, and validated, and then we're done.
 * Hickey, Patrick Hodgens. (1925). "Red" Fed. Memoirs. Fascinating and short labour history, almost all just text. A quick proofread.
 * Reid, R. C. (1886) (2nd Edition) Rambles on the Golden Coast of New Zealand. I've uploaded all the ornate capitals and page ornaments (which include the ones in this post) to Commons, so all that's left to do is add them to pages.

Lots more books coming, but some of these we can polish off quickly so they can be loaned out as library books. Drop me a line if anything's not clear or leave a message on the book's Talk page. Happy proofreading! —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 09:58, 15 November 2022 (UTC)