A Wikisource transcribathon :-) Nice idea John, congratulations. Do more!
Aubrey
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:14 AM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com 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...
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_an...
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
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