Wikisource:WikiProject Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition

This project relates to the adding of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition to Wikisource.

Sub-pages

 * /FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions for the project; look here first for the answers to your questions.
 * /Style guide
 * /Transclusion
 * /Advertisement

Disclaimer

 * See Project disclaimers/Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition

Structure and points of discussion
This is a work in progress, feel free to add to the list of things to consider ;)
 * Layout: images, navigation etc.
 * Organising wikipedians for this mammoth task.
 * Linking to corresponding articles on Wikipedia where appropriate
 * Creating categories for content. I.E. Cities, biographies, elements, etc.  Just like Wikipedia.
 * Providing English translations of Latin and French passages (EB1911 doesn't do this).
 * Contrasting smaller (detailed information or extended quotes) with larger fonted portions of an entry.

Style guide

 * EB9 does not have its own style guide yet. Until it does see:
 * EB1911 style manual
 * Style guide

When written the EB9 style guide will be a general style manual that should be used specifically to this project. Mainly, it is a way to standardize the look and feel of going from one article to another, suggestions on formatting, and in general some tips on what to look for when trying to improve these articles over the raw text from external sources.

Using transclusion
Few people read a volume of a long encyclopaedia from cover to cover. It is a reference work, and the natural unit for the reader is the article. To do the two things at once (reproduce the paginated text, produce single articles) is quite possible, using the transclusion of whole or partial pages into other pages. For one fundamental aspect of the activity of the project, checking the text against the image of the original in our djvu files, this has a clear advantage: correction of an error found with the text next to the image will propagate into the free-standing article. And then anyone can go and verify a spelling or date (say), and make a change if one is needed.

The technical requirements to do the transclusion are twofold: markup in the Page: namespace, which is simple and something of which the reader will not be aware; and the transclusion syntax applied by the article creator, which lives on the article page.

The current position is that the project uses two styles of transclusion, and there are numerous pages created simply by article text plus header only. Therefore there are three types of pages that you will see if you go to the edit tab on a EB9 article. The project does not prescribe which way is "correct". For more details see /Transclusion. — Until the EB9 transclusion guide is written see the EB1911 transclusion page

Wikimedia Sister Project Advertisement
The Wikimedia Sister Project Ad is a recruiting tool that is to be edited by current participants to try and get some more help here when we are ready for them. The intention is that the contents of this page will be posted in the "Water Cooler" section of the respective Wikimedia projects to advertise this project among other Wikimedia users. You are encouraged to write it or add comments in the Talk page about this if you don't like the tone before it gets sent out. See the draft EB1911 Advertisement for ideas.

The targets (for now) of participation and announcement will be on Meta, Wikipedia, and Wiktionary. Wikibooks has plenty of advertising for now, although a general announcement might be in order too, at least to formally let everybody know the project is finally over here at this Wikimedia project.

Participants
Add your name here with ~ if you wish to join the team!
 * Bob Burkhardt (talk) 14:21, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Tripler06 (talk) 02:30, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Free, public-domain sources for Ninth Edition Encyclopædia Britannica text
Internet archive: • 2 1 - 20 of 20 Results for all fields: Encyclopaedia Britannica ninth edition HathiTrust’s digital library

Other sources for Ninth Edition Encyclopædia Britannica text

 * 1902encyclopedia.com About — states it has copyright and adds: "This website is the free online Encyclopedia Britannica (9th Edition and 10th Edition) with added expert translations and commentaries"