A Wikisource transcribathon :-) Nice idea John, congratulations. Do more! Aubrey
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:14 AM, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Late on Monday the State Library of Queensland launched its 'Pitch In' > program, where the SLQ staff work with digital volunteers working on > Flickr Commons, Trove, Wikisource and Historypin. > > http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/about-us/pitch-in > > Their 'Wikisource' page: > > http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/about-us/pitch-in/transcribe > > Our 'SLQ' page: > > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_SLQ > > They are using 'pitchinslq' as the tag to communicate with the digital > volunteers on twitter and facebook. > > https://twitter.com/search?q=%23pitchinslq > > https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/pitchinslq > > Already one work has been transcribed by volunteers, and the majority > of the transcription came from a new contributor 'HelenVSmith', which > is tweeting as Helen V Smith @HVSresearch. > > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/HelenVSmith > https://twitter.com/HVSresearch/status/354231873628680196 > > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Eleanor_Elizabeth_Bourne_Papers > > (note that you can add links to Wikipedia or Wiktionary to the text, > if it helps comprehension. A great example is 'Persia', which links to > the Wikipedia article 'SS Persia (1900)') > > SLQ is also providing their own transcription, where they have > obtained it the old fashioned way. We've uploaded their transcription > into Wikisource, so now we need people to carefully review the > transcription. > > > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:George_Green_-_2nd_Light_Horse_Regiment_Gallipoli_Volume_1.djvu > > The first 'big' project is the transcription of an 170 page book, with > about 20 pages done so far. > > > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Australian_enquiry_book_of_household_and_general_information.djvu > > The SLQ staff are helping: > > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mawarre > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Araunik > > And there online campaign is bringing in many new contributors: > > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Evelyn_Kruger > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Danielseed > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pippigolightly > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Penelopean > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Carmattif > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sscoates > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Natsa > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Natalie > > Not bad for 48 hours! ;-) > > And finally, a big thanks to Craig Franklin for helping with the > influx of Wikisource newbies ;-) > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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