From: Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com>
To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, 11
February 2013, 18:25
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography digitised on Wikisource
On 11 February 2013 18:03, rexx <
rexx@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Congratulations indeed.
>
> Putting 29,000+ biographies onto Wikisource is a monumental achievement;
> Charles and all those who contributed deserve to be told by us how much
> their efforts are appreciated.
>
> What's next, Charles?
Well, I only got into this project through my so-called friend Dsp13,
at the time in 2009 when I wanted some Puritan biographies. Much of
the point is to have material that can build up WP, with a really
convenient way of linking back to the original. Old text can be used
on WP, but you have to be really ruthless in
editing it.
So almost as important to me on Wikipedia as WP:DNB (Don't Bite the
Newbies) is WP:WP DNB, the WikiProject devoted to quarrying out the
good stuff from the DNB, starting articles, and upgrading them. Now at
last we'll be able to find how many missing topics there are (I guess
5,000 to 6,000, about 20%), through various routes. The Wikisource
category Category:DNB No WP says 13,152 missing today, which is much
too high; but Magnus Manske has a way of sorting by rough length and
so today I'm working on a WP article that is one of the longest
missing (spreads over four DNB pages). Rich Farmbrough has worked on
this category in the past.
Charles
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