Wikisource features New Holland flora - Wikisource-l

14 Jun 2009


      A few days ago, the first Australian content was promoted to the front
page of Wikisource, where it will stay for a month.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
The project was started two years ago by Hesperian, who has done the
majority of the work, with Moondyne validating the transcription, and
Cygnis insignis has done some as well.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_specimen_of_the_botany_of_New_Holland
It is available as a PDF using the new Book tool:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Books/A_specimen_of_the_botany_of_N...
Also worth a browse is the species index pages that this team have
been creating as a bibliography of works related to the flora of
Australia.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Wikisource_species_index_pages
The page scans for this work came from the National Library of France
([[w:Gallica]]).
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Specimen_of_the_Botany_of_New_Holland....
A list of all featured texts can be seen here:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Featured_texts
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John Vandenberg