[WikiEN-l] 1911EB bites back - and DNB

[Charles Matthews]

I ought to be used to this by now; but I have just found a 1911 
Britannica article we have not imported or covered (see [[William 
Stewart of Houston]]). These almost always crop up when the 
disambiguation of common names, such as "William Stewart", was not 
exhaustive in the checking.

Anyway, this might be a moment to mention ongoing work with another 
merge, that of the old Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). I have 
just reached the half-way point in doing a complete listing (with 
summaries); see on [[User:Charles Matthews]]. The "raw material" for 
that is in Magnus Manske's user space; I wouldn't mind help at all, but 
the various types of corruption of scanned text make it a bit daunting 
even with the "Concise Dictionary of National Biography" (CDNB) to hand. 
In effect the 63 pages I'm producing are the content of the CDNB 
summaries, restricted to the first edition (1900 and before) of the DNB. 
Do ask if this seems of interest as a project.

It will all be moved into project space when it's looking more complete. 
There is an ambitious Wikisource project to get the original DNB 
articles posted: unlike the 1911EB, and some others we use, this work is 
_not_ yet conveniently available online.  (And it is a huge resource.)

Charles