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Priority pages that need work
We are trying to pick out those articles ath are really great and exemplary in the 1911. First need to both identify them and fix them up into great condition. Then we will highlight them on the home page so people can get a great taste of just how great the 1911 can be. The following are pages that are fundamentally wonderful articles, but need serious work. Once these articles are fixed up, we can feature them on the home page. Feel free to add/modify to the list:
- Templars
- A: This article doesn't seem to be at this site, although it was in the encyclopædia (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/A).
- Flute
Suggestions for the Site
It would be much easier to clean up misplaced footnotes if someone installed either the ref/note template or the ref/reference script at this site. Unless I missed something, there is no way to link to footnotes, or organize them except by hand here. Here's a description of them at the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes)
A style guide would be nice too.
A new "skin" or template would be worth looking into. Right now, on Camino or Firefox for the Mac, the word "Classic ]" is partially visible above the navigation box, there's a gap between the bottom of the tabs and the content box they're supposed to be attached to, and the illustration at the top is pushed over the the right side of the window with a white gap between it and the background. The site doesn't look very good with the current layout.
Suggestions for Home Page Featured Articles
Please place articles that are canidates for being featured on the home page here:
I'd like to help clean up some articles, but I don't have a scan of the original article and find it difficult to know what mangled word is supposed to be. Is there anyway to get an image of an article in order to correct the OCR scan?
- Another encyclopædia has images of every page en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Tim_Starling. On another note I was trying to revert Greece but it complains about external links, anyone know what the problem is?
- I have reverted that one. Could be that it had an external link, which we had disallowed to help fight spam. Thanks for the heads up on that one. - Howard
- The problem is square brackets in the text. I found 3 sets in the Greece article. They need to be replaced with the html [ ] otherwise the compiler interprets them as external links. If a bot could be run to do that it would make editing a whole lot easier.
- BTW great tip on the scanned pages... makes so much more sense when you see the original. Like two columns per page! James 15:12, 27 Mar 2007 (PST)
Looking for Community Builders & Admins
We are looking for qualified members to become leaders for the site. Let me know if you are interested. Only those who have made substantial contributions will be considered. Email your interest and qualifications to "admin at lovetoknow.com" - Howard
Ref template
I would reiterate the earlier suggestion that references be implemented. This would easily allow clarification of what is 100-years-ago vague without really tampering with the text. I also observe that some external links should be allowed, particularly to Wikipedia, but understand the need to keep spammers at bay. And one needs a spot to suggest moves and the such, as with Alexander Iii --Lohengrin 13:01, 3 Feb 2007 (PST)
- What's a scanner mistake? A scanno? For pages like this, it's not even a discussion really. Just move them to the correct page title I would say. James 15:15, 27 Mar 2007 (PST)
- I have made a ref template as explained here: Help:Template#Template:Ref. It's not quite like the wikipedia one but I'm open to suggestions. James 13:33, 13 May 2007 (EDT)
Thomas
We now have categories for Dutch writers, Dutch historians, Journalism (linked to Industry and business), Animal Husbandry and Horticulture (linked to agriculture and agriculture was linked to economics and biology). Check my contribution to see all my changes and discuss them with me if i did something wrong.
I also posted this earlier on the writers talk page.
Can we change English writers and Scottish, Irish and Welsh writers and other categories into this;
- British writers
- Anglo-British writers (English writers, or people who wrote in English and Anglo-Saxon and come from England)
- Gallo-British writers (Scottish, Irish and Welsh writers, or people who wrote in English and Gaelic and come from Scotland, Ireland and Wales)
- Dutch writers
- Dutch-Netherlandic writers (Netherlandic writers, or people who wrote in Dutch and French and come from the Netherlands)
- Dutch-Belgic writers (Flemish writers, or people who wrote in Dutch predominantly and French and come from Flanders in Belgium)
- French writers
- Franco-Belgic writers (Walloon en Picardic writers, or people who wrote in French predominantly and Dutch and come from Wallonia in Belgium)
Note: When writers, wrote in latin they automatically become part of the writers geographic region of birth. -- Thomas
