User talk:Toby~enwikisource

Welcome

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Again, welcome! John Vandenberg (chat) 11:30, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

EB1911
It's great to see you're keenly working on EB1911, and it is fantastic to know you have a physical copy, as there are times where the digital scans are deficient. See WS:EB1911 for details.

In case you are not aware, I have found the quickest method is to use Firefox with the CleanHide extension, find the entry on http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/, e.g. ADYE_SIR_JOHN_MILLER_1819_19oo_, and use CleanHide to remove the junk from the page, then copy and clean it up before posting to Wikisource. John Vandenberg (chat) 00:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi John
This is great to do. The information you give me is new to me but I will figure it out. Until now I work as follows: I choose a subject (in the future I will choose things I am realy interested in), I then look it up in the original cd version and do an ocr scan on it. I compare the ocr version (copied to word) with the original version and correct it. When I think it is ok I put it in wikisource. I am still figuring out the layout. Your links are very handy. Greetz --Toby 01:13, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

EB formatting
I can't see your watchlist, so you will need to point out which changes are causing you some concern. Underlying the problem you are facing is the lack of a style guideline tailored for EB1911 &mdash; it is a big enough project that it needs it's own style guideline if we are going to end up with a consistent feel across all pages.

I suggest that you start a new section on Wikisource talk:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica with an overview of what has happened, and invite to come and discuss it there. I will also get involved in the discussion if necessary, and others may also. John Vandenberg (chat) 00:34, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

email notifications
Hi, after a proposal to enable email notification, Wikisource is now able to notify you of any changes to pages on your watchlist and/or changes to your talk page. In order to take advantage of these features, you need to enabled them in your preferences. -- John Vandenberg (chat) 14:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Toby. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Toby~enwikisource that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:51, 21 April 2015 (UTC)