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_Regimen…
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_a…
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