User:Laura1822

Awards for participation

	Proofread of the Month September 2014 Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine

	Proofread of the Month January 2016 The Comic English Grammar

	Proofread of the Month August 2016 Index:The Mythology of the Aryan Nations.djvu

	Proofread of the Month October 2016 My Life and Loves

Original plans

My pilot project of the first volume of Ackermann's Repository is underway. Feel free to dive in and help out. Wikisource:WikiProject Ackermann’s Repository of Arts has preliminary info, but so far the bulk of activity is on the talk page, where I welcome suggestions and ideas.

I would like to build a project to enable others to help transcribe at least the fashion plate descriptions of all 40 volumes of the Repository, which are all available at IA. I hope to draw in people from here and from other places who are interested in early fashion periodicals as well as those with expertise in workflows here for periodicals, and who have (or can develop) tools and expertise for creating and managing djvu files.

Ideally I'd like to see djvu files created from the high-resolution images of the complete fashion journal runs at Bunka Gakuen: these need to be collected, split, cropped, assembled into djvus, and then uploaded at IA and at Commons (including the cropped high-res images separately)--all of which are tasks better suited to automation than to people (or to me personally, anyway). They have several other complete runs of several other late 18th/early 19th century fashion journals there, some of them very rare.

I am also interested in doing something similar for The Gentleman's Magazine (which turns out to be here already, though incomplete: I will study it), Annual Register, and other late 18th/early 19th century periodicals, and perhaps even novels or other non-fiction from this period. Ackermann’s Microcosm of London, which is also on IA, might make an even better introductory or pilot project, since there is less text, and the underlying high-res images would be valuable to Commons. Which reminds me-- I need to look for an automated way to upload jp2 files associated with a djvu to Commons, for the Repository as well.

At some point I will upload and transcribe some antique documents and newspapers that I own.

I welcome advice on how to structure and design these projects. I'm just getting started and am quite ignorant. Leave me a message on my talk page or the project's talk page to say hello or comment.

I have done a little bit of work at Project Gutenberg but have not gone beyond low-level proofreading. I hope that the workflow here is easier to manage. (It is so far.)

Heretofore on Commons I have devoted myself to portraiture and some categorization of fashion plates.

October 2021 update

Obviously none of my ambitions described above have been realized. But they remain ambitions.

I do not have nearly enough energy to devote to WS as I would like, which makes me a very inconsistent user. In the future I will probably shift some of my focus from ca. 1800 English periodicals to theology and catechesis, and perhaps some economic and political philosophy. Since I don't seem to have what it takes to create and implement large projects, I will probably stick to basic proofreading.

At a philosophical level, after so many years of evolution of texts, from the early days of PG's text-only-no-formatting editions of the Bible and Shakespeare, to now where most people can read pdf files made from original book image files (as at gbooks and IA) on an ereader, or even on their phones, I wonder if the ultimate goal of creating proofread electronic text editions of all the public domain texts in the history of the world is still a valuable goal.

If that sounds pessimistic, it is, to some degree. But perhaps there is something else more valuable evolving.

Working

Wikisource:Proofread of the Month/little works n/a?

Periodicals

Index:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 1.djvu: Needs proofreading, have to learn how to do musical examples and other illustrations.
Notes and Queries
Index:Compendium of US Copyright Office Practices (1973).pdf: validation
Index:Popular Science Monthly Volume 50.djvu
Index:The Annual Register, or a view of the History, Politics and Literature for the year 1802.djvu
Index:The Gentleman's Magazine - New Series, Volume 6.pdf
first volume of Ackermann's Repository: my pilot project for working on early 19th century periodicals

Literature

Austen Scans List of works, showing progress for validating/proofreading.
Index:Austen - Emma, vol. I, 1816.djvu: Validated, but needs to be re-validated: requires careful reading to correct punctuation, possibly from copying/pasting text from another source. Errors on every page of the first chapter (except the first), mostly in the form of added commas, but also changes to colons/semicolons, dashes, periods/end of sentence/capitalization, archaic spellings, and even the occasional word substitution. Look out for capitalization and italics.
Index:Austen - Pride and Prejudice, third edition, 1817.djvu: Although already validated, requires another careful reading to correct punctuation, ditto Emma, above.
Index:The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2.djvu: first part of Dumas's Ten Years Later
Index:King Solomon's Mines (1907).djvu
Index:A Little Princess.djvu
Index:The Secret Garden.djvu
Index:Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey (1st edition), Volume 1 (Wuthering Heights, Volume 1).djvu: first-pass proofreading
Index:Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey (1st edition), Volume 2 (Wuthering Heights, Volume 2).djvu: first-pass proofreading
Index:Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey (1st edition), Volume 3 (Agnes Grey).djvu: validation

Catholic

Portal:Roman Catholicism
Category:Roman Catholic Church
Wikisource:WikiProject Catholic Encyclopedia Upgrade
Index:Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 1.djvu: Needs proofreading, text a little difficult to read.

Catholic misc.

Index:Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent Buckley.djvu: needs validation
Index:The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII.djvu (available elsewhere individually, also incompletely indexed (transcluded?) here at Author:Leo XIII and Category:Catholic Church Encycicals)
Index:True and False Infallibility of Popes.pdf
Index:Petri Privilegium - Manning.djvu
Index:The True Story of the Vatican Council.djvu: needs validation
Europe And The Faith (1920) by Hilaire Belloc: Like some of the literature above, appears to have been copied/pasted from a text-only source, lacks image-based source/Index; sloppy formatting (italics, capitalization, etc.) Suspect that much of Belloc's ouevre suffers from this same problem.

Catechisms

Index:Catechismoftrent.djvu Catechism of the Council of Trent (1829)
File:A Short Christian Doctrine - Robert Bellarmine - English translation, 1633.pdf on Commons
Index:Anecdotescatechi00spiruoft.djvu Anecdotes and Examples Illustrating The Catholic Catechism by Spirago (1904)
Index:Completecatechis00deharich.djvu A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion by Deharbe (1912)

Needed:

Full Bellarmine (Latin? English?)
Catechism of Saint Pius X (1880)
Catechism on Modernism of Pius X (1908)
Baltimore Catechism (original 1885 No. 2 Concilio and No. 1 Spalding's versions ) and later expanded 1-2-3-4 if available
Catechism of the Council of Trent
Catechism of Summa Theologica by Pegues (1922)

N.B. I will only include catechisms with imprimatur. There are over 15,000 catechisms on Commons (many not about religion, much less Christianity) and even books that claim to be "Catholic" I am, in my ignorance, unwilling to promulgate. Some may be unobjectionable; but some are questionable, and most are anti-Catholic.

Index:Hamman Prayers.pdf (not on WS; deleted on Commons?)

Index:Medivalhymnsand00nealgoog.djvu 1867 medieval hymns and sequences
Index:Lyracatholicacaswall.djvu 1851 hymns and sequences from the breviary and missal, and others

See also: Bobdole2021's list on his user page

Doctors of the Church

Portal:Doctors of the Church
Category:Doctors of the Church
Index:A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church Volume 2.djvu (Pusey)
Index:Saint Theresa of Avila (Gilman 1889).djvu ("Famous Women" series)
Index:Summa Theologica (2nd rev. ed.) - Volume 1.djvu (available elsewhere in epub)
Index:Thoughts of the servant of God, Thérèse of the Child Jesus; the Little flower of Jesus, Carmelite of the monastery of Lisieux, 1873-1897 (IA thoughtsofservan00thrs).pdf (available elsewhere in epub)

Index:The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII.djvu

Liguori

Index:Thecompleteascet02liguuoft.djvu ed. Grimm, Centenary Edition (1886–90)
Index:AceticLibraryV2PreparationForDeath.djvu ed. Shipley (1868)
Index:PassionDeathOfJesusChristV5.djvu ed. Grimm, Centenary Edition (1886–90)
Index:Complete ascetical works of St Alphonsus v6.djvu on the Holy Eucharist; see links for other volumes of this edition: ed. Grimm, Centenary Edition (1886–90)
Index:History of Heresies (Liguori).djvu ed. Mullock (1857)
Index:Sermons for all the Sundays in the year.djvu ed. Callan (1882)
Index:Stalphonsuspraye00ligu.djvu 1888 Liguori (pp. 506-507 missing, no other copies online anywhere, LoC site says "not available") 1888 prayer book

Rosary

Index:How-to-say-the-rosary.djvu (4-page booklet, complete)
Index:TheRosaryItsHistory.djvu (32-page ditto)
Index:LittleBookOfTheMostHolyChildJesus.djvu (112-page prayer book for children, includes Rosary, complete)
Most prayer books have a chapter or section on the rosary

Hymnals and Gregorian Chant

Index:The Roman Hymnal.djvu