User talk:David Nind
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Hello, David Nind, and welcome to Wikisource! Thank you for joining the project. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Again, welcome! Beeswaxcandle (talk) 10:44, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
An afghan for you!
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(The afghan is the unofficial biscuit of Wikimedia Aotearoa.)
Kia ora David; it was great to see you at the Wikisource tutorial. I just wanted to thank you for all the work you've done with Emerald Hours and Through South Westland; it's made a big difference, and it really drives home for people I'm explaining Wikisource to that it's a distributed, collaborative project. Hopefully I'll catch you at the next Wellington meetup. Ka kite ano. — Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 07:14, 23 August 2021 (UTC) |
dashes at beginning or end of pages
[edit]Hi, the easiest way around the spacing problem is to use {{hws}} and {{hwe}} with the hyph field in hws set to nil. In this case they will look like {{hws|calamity|calamity—the|hyph=}} and {{hwe|—the|calamity—the}}. [By the way, it's an em-dash rather than an en-dash.] Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:44, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks! One to remember when it comes up again. David Nind (talk) 22:52, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
West Coast Task Force
[edit]Hi David; the West Coast Task Force project page is growing, as we now have a paid person scanning regularly. Feel free to add yourself to the team if you'd like to contribute regularly. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 21:37, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
News from the West Coast Task Force
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ELLO from our West Coast Wikisource project. There's been quite a bit uploaded recently, so a quick list of things you might be interested in helping with.
- Baughan, Blanche Edith. (1898). Verses. A medium-sized poetry collection; the table of contents has been created but otherwise lots of poems to transcribe.
- — (1912). Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven: Being Sketches of Up-country Life in New Zealand. Short stories evoking colonial life, easy to transcribe but lots of apostrophes (which we should try and do as curly single quotes). I love the little illustrations in this one—it would be great to get them in Commons in high res.
- — (1923). Poems from the Port Hills. Very short poetry book; try out your poetry formatting.
- Drummond, James. (1907.) The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon. We've solved the problem of the missing page, so it's now a matter of proofing and validating the text. I need to upload the plates into Commons.
- Faris, Irwin. (1941). Charleston: Its Rise and Decline. The photos are all in Commons and just need to be inserted into pages, and validated, and then we're done.
- Hickey, Patrick Hodgens. (1925). "Red" Fed. Memoirs. Fascinating and short labour history, almost all just text. A quick proofread.
- Reid, R. C. (1886) (2nd Edition) Rambles on the Golden Coast of New Zealand. I've uploaded all the ornate capitals and page ornaments (which include the ones in this post) to Commons, so all that's left to do is add them to pages.
Lots more books coming, but some of these we can polish off quickly so they can be loaned out as library books. Drop me a line if anything's not clear or leave a message on the book's Talk page. Happy proofreading! —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 09:58, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Smallrefs
[edit]Hi, {{smallrefs}} belongs in the footer of each page rather than in the Body. This is so that the references will display in the correct place both in the Page: namespace and the mainspace when the full chapter/poem/section is transcluded. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 20:55, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'll go and fix up the ones I've changed - the help page was unclear to me on this 8-). David Nind (talk) 21:03, 22 June 2023 (UTC)