Wikisource talk:Community collaboration/2020

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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman's 200th birthday is May 2019. It would be nice to feature Leaves of Grass that month, but we have only a cut-and-paste copy. Also, Leaves of Grass went through many editions, and it is unclear which edition we have of the six to nine that were published in Whitman's lifetime. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:34, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Our copy is from Gutenberg, and is compiled from multiple paper editions. Do we have a spare slot in WS:POTM to get a good copy? —Beleg Tâl (talk) 02:19, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

PotM is already filling up with lots of things. I thought we might consider doing multiple editions as the Comm. Collab., since the editions published in Whitman's own lifetime vary widely: only 12 poems in the first edition but 400 in the last edition of his lifetime. Our "Gutenberg copy" has about 40 poems, so I don't know which edition the Gutenberg actually comes from, and it may be a Frankenstein edition pulled from multiple sources. In any case, the fact that there are such widely differing editions, and thus poems appearing in multiple editions, will necessitate the creation and editing of many versions pages for the individual poems. That's not something I'd put into a regular PotM as it can be very confusing to new editors. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:22, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

 Support Wow, that's a lot of variance, I can see why a collab would be a good idea. I also just found that our copy differs significantly from the Gutenberg text named in the textinfo template, so your guess is as good as mine. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 02:32, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Comment One of my many current projects is Index:Leaves of Grass (1882).djvu, the 1882 edition. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 04:37, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

I think we'll go with the 1860 edition then, which is the oldest edition with a scan in IA. @Beeswaxcandle:, once this is up and running, your assistance and occasional oversight would be welcome. And if you think the 1882 edition you're working on can be finished and validated by early April, it would be wonderful to Feature it in May for Whitman's 200th birthday. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:40, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

It seems odd to have "Proofread of the Month" on the front page, and "Community Collaboration which is…a proofread!"; perhaps making it Authorpage specific, or maintenance-specific or something? Lemuritus (talk) 00:55, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

The Community collab is for longer-term projects that could not be completed in a single month. Leaves of Grass is a complicated work with lots of formatting. We've been at it several months and are roughly halfway through. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:46, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Recent (?) Collaborations

Under section Recent Collaborations I just checked the last six links titled "see the improvements!" e.g. Carl Jung. Each one pointed to diffs from 2009. Each of these six subjects had changes more recent in 2018 or 2019. This may be discouraging to the potential contributor, as it makes the project look moribund. Shenme (talk) 19:42, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

The improvements that were made in relation to the Community collaboration date from that time. More recent work was not done in conjunction with the Comm. Collab. efforts. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:17, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Interesting, it might be worth reviving this effort as a new community collaboration. There are a lot of works by Jung that we don't seem to have. It looks like the prior effort was more with respect to a specific work.

In any case, I'll close this as it's very old. New thread if we want to do this. DeirdreAnne^{(talk • contribs)} 18:35, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

A neat little text from England that would be a good start for community collab!

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Eltomas2003 (talk) 19:34, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Sounds like just a text that needs importing and the normal work, not really the level of effort that Community Collaboration is intended for.

Additionally, this discussion is 4 years old and needs to be closed. DeirdreAnne^{(talk • contribs)} 18:31, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Works of Lysander Spooner

Spooner was a major figure in the development of libertarianism in the United States, and his works are lacking in representation on Wikisource. He wrote a number of shorter works (as listed on his author page), in addition to a few longer works, so efforts to proofread both of those could occur at the same time. (I mainly work on WS:PotM, so I don’t know what would be the most appropriate type of selection, but I felt that this would not be a bad place to start.) TE(æ)A,ea. (talk) 02:57, 9 November 2020 (UTC).