Wikisource:Annotations/types

Annotation Types

What this is: This is working document to collaborate in creating a list of annotation "types". It arose from a Scriptorium discussion as part of the eventual process of creating a Vote in order to determine the status (existence) of annotations at Wikisource. This not a voting page or a place to discuss the pros and cons of annotations. It is a reference list of all the types of annotations currently (or possibly) on Wikisource. It is also partly a discovery process and the more annotation types we find the better. Please feel free to contribute.

Wikisource Links (WS)


 * Annotation name: WS-A
 * Description: Wikisource author links
 * Example: Charles Dickens was an English novelist.
 * Annotation name: WS-W
 * Description: Wikisource work links
 * Example: Hard Times was a novel by Charles Dickens.
 * Annotation name: WS-P
 * Description: Wikisource publisher links
 * Example: Penguin Press is an English publisher.
 * Annotation name: WS:PO
 * Description: Wikisource Portal links.
 * Example: "Jainism bears a striking resemblance to Buddhism in its monastic system"

Wikipedia Sister Sites (WM)


 * Annotation name: WM-W
 * Description: Wikipedia (Encyclopedia)
 * Example: Wikipedia
 * Annotation name: WM-B
 * Description: Wikibooks (Textbooks)
 * Example: Wikibooks
 * Annotation name: WM-D
 * Description: Wiktionary (Dictionary)
 * Example: Wiktionary
 * Annotation name: WM-N
 * Description: Wikinews (News)
 * Example: Wikinews
 * Annotation name: WM-S
 * Description: Wikispecies
 * Example: Wikispecies
 * Annotation name: WM-C
 * Description: Wikimedia Commons (multi-media)
 * Example: Wikicommons
 * Annotation name: WM-V
 * Description: Wikiversity (Courseware)
 * Example: Wikiversity
 * Annotation name: WM-Q
 * Description: Wikiquote (Quotes)
 * Example: Wikiquote

External links (EL)


 * Annotation name: EL-A
 * Description: Links to any external site not defined elsewhere
 * Example: Yahoo.com is a commercial web portal site.
 * Annotation name: EL-AF
 * Description: Links to certain add-free sites that compliment Wikimedia with open source resources
 * Example: Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, maps

Footnotes

Note: Due to the unique nature of footnoted material, sources are desirable for most things. Sources could be in the footnote directly and/or referenced in the introduction material.


 * Annotation name: FN-R1
 * Description: Footnotes containing definition clarification
 * Example: "..keeping up a galling irregular fire"
 * Annotation name: FN-R2
 * Description: Footnotes containing factual background information
 * Example: "To Mistress —."
 * Annotation name: FN-R3
 * Description: Footnotes containing scholarly analysis
 * Example: "..such may be the result." This is a morality tale.
 * Annotation name: FN-R4
 * Description: Footnotes containing links/information suggesting further reading (perhaps merge with FN-R2)
 * Example: Le Monastier .. for a fuller description of this highland village see Stevenson's A Mountain Town in France.
 * Annotation name: FN-5
 * Descriptions: Footnotes containing revisions between different versions of a document.
 * Example: "for the world words I longed for, and all its their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine."
 * Annotation name: FN-6
 * Description: Footnotes that correct misspellings/syntax
 * Example:

Other (O)


 * Annotation name: O-I
 * Description: Additional images and embedded files
 * Example: Narrative of a Voyage Round the World (volume 1)/Annotated/Chapter III
 * Annotation name: O-P
 * Description: Text with added pop-up messages on mouse-over
 * Example: SIC, tooltip
 * Annotation name: O-T
 * Description: Original translations
 * Example:
 * Annotation name: O-A
 * Description: AuxTOC; Additive TOC not appearing in scan
 * Example: A Witch Shall Be Born
 * Annotation name:O-L
 * Description: listen, media; audio supplement to a given work.
 * Example: The Velveteen Rabbit
 * Annotation name: O-IN
 * Description: Text introduction / Literary history
 * Example:
 * Annotation name: O-X
 * Description: External links / Further reading
 * Example:
 * Annotation name: O-W
 * Description: Wikipediaref excerpt in the header from a related wikipedia article.
 * Example: A specimen of the botany of New Holland