User:AdamBMorgan
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I initially migrated over from Wikipedia due to my interest in, amongst other things, pulp magazines and the pulp fiction that appeared in them. Since then, Wikisource has become my "home" site amongst the Wikimedia projects.
My favourite author is Robert E. Howard and I have been attempting to put as much of his works as possible on this site. This is likely to be a slow process, however, as a lot of the original documents are rather expensive and difficult to acquire in any freely-available form. I have other pulp magazines, however, (as well as similar period periodicals) and I have begun experimenting with scanning them for myself. Results are mixed so far but getting better. As these documents appear to be unavailable anywhere on the internet, it is nice to be able to (slowly) provide the world with scanned copies. I like the kind of fiction that was published in pulps and similar publications—adventure, fantasy, science fiction etc.—regardless of period and I am interested in expanding the collection of these on Wikisource.
In non-fiction, I am interested in science, history, exploration and travel literature. It is not my immediate intention to add this kind of book to Wikisource—fiction takes precedence—I have worked on these fields and will continue to do so in the future.
I have, rather unexpectedly to be honest, become an administrator on this project since settling here. See the "Admin" section below for what I consider my strengths and weaknesses as an admin (especially if you have an admin-y related reason for reading this page).
I really like organisation and organising things. I organised the Portal namespace into a system based on the Library of Congress Classification system, after migrating them from index pages in the Wikisource namespace. I continue to monitor, expand and generally help with the portals here at Wikisource. I am also interested in expanding the Help pages, filling in some blanks in the Policy pages, solving occasional Category problems (duplications, inconnection, broken branches etc) and so forth. I may get around to all of that in the future.
On top of all this, I am interested in the multimedia aspects of Wikisource and, to this end, I have added several audiobooks from LibriVox to the matching Wikisource texts. This has been sidelined to some extent by the portals and other things but I very much intend to get back to it later.
Admin[edit]
For the benefit of anyone seeking admin help or just admin-related information about me, I have rated myself as follows, using the tutorial on Wikiversity as a guide (and the "What makes a good sysop?" section in particular):
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| Human Resources† |    |
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| Hybrid skills‡ | |
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| Fun and enthusiasm | |
| ‡ This is a combination of Human Resources and Technical skills. | |
I hope that's helpful if you are looking for assistance. For any of the low-scored qualities, I would recommend contacting a different admin but I can do what I can if necessary (or point you in the direction of someone else).
† I have been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which probably isn't that rare on the various Wikimedia projects, and it does limit my people skills. This is not usually a problem on the internet, where communication is commonly via text and everyone tends to experience some loss of nuance, but I occasionally fail to pick up on unstated and/or subtle details (whether they are intended to be subtle or not). Please don't be offended (or too confused) if this happens. On the plus side, this may be the reason I like organising things.
To do list[edit]
An ever expanding list of ideas, notions, vague aspirations, ephemera and so forth:
- Portal namespace, including:-
- Create new portals to create complete navigation navigation chain in portal space.
- Expand portal space as materials allows.
- Propagate links back from portals to works (portal parameter).
- Specific portals: Years, ships,
people...
- Audiobooks, including:-
- Attach outstanding LibriVox recordings from Commons to texts.
- Implement {{Media}} more thoroughly.
- Down/upload more LibriVox recordings as required & as time allows.
- Separate LV portal?!
- Robert E. Howard: try to fill in all red links and find scanned sources for existing files.
- DjVu scanning, creation and proofreading.
- Pulp magazines for the time being.
- Try to find pre-scanned pulp magazines (if possible).
- Help with WikiProjects (see list below).
- Some additions to plain sister (alt names? more fields? slashes from portal to others)
- Metadata? Dublin core + OCLC, LCC etc?! (template?)
- Gnoming: licences & publication years.
- Write and expand Policy & Help pages to cover gaps.
- Possibly use essays to explain or describe PoV & non-set-policy situations.
- Comic books: work out best method of structuring volume/pages
- Films: test film-with-transcript approach
- Learn more about:
- DjVu files (and manipulation) incl. DjVu Libre.
- Bots, AWB etc.
- Add to portal parent code - use switch to catch "-", "0", "null" etc and replace with asterix
- ...
Useful links and information[edit]
Administrator[edit] |
Data[edit]My userpages on: Wikipedia • Wikimedia Commons • Wikiquote • Wikibooks My performance: Visual edit counter • Yet another edit counter |
Subpages[edit]This userpage has the following subpages:
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Sample additions[edit]Proofread:
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Info: Templates[edit]Links to help pages on Meta: Template • Advanced templates • Parser function • ParserFunctions • Parameter default • Variable • Magic word • System message • Substitution • Array • Calculation Occasionally useful: Header templates (colours) in the Scriptorium archives.
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Info: Portalspace[edit]
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Current DjVu proofreading[edit]
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Near future planned proofreading[edit]
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Potential future proofreading[edit]
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WikiProjects[edit]
(Abbreviations in brackets to indicate related proofreading) |
Scanning[edit]I have experimented with scanning pulp magazines for myself. The results are Avon Fantasy Reader #10 and Weird Tales (vol. 36, no. 1) listed above. Neither is perfect but they're okay for now. I have more to come eventually but it is even more time-consuming than I had at first thought. I have these to proofread anyway. |
Assisting[edit]I am helping with these focussed projects: (...and perhaps more, on and off, that do not require links as yet.) |
Personal Project: Pulp magazines[edit]I like pulp magazines and many are now in the public domain (in some cases only partially, as both the publisher and the authors could renew copyrights) yet they are also a gap in publicly available publications. I have scanned some of my own pulps and have several more to scan. I have also found a CD of them on eBay, from which I have been extracting the actually public domain works. I'm currently working on the following:
More on Commons |
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Personal Project: Audio files[edit]
I have experimented in adding spoken word versions of some texts. This started with adding the chapters of Red Shadows from Librivox. The actual recordings are on Wikimedia Commons. I have continued this for all files I can find for Robert E. Howard and I have started adding files for his correspondant H. P. Lovecraft. I started marking the appropriate texts with the I intend to add more Librivox audio files as time and my ISP's download limit allow. |
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Personal Project: Domesday Book[edit]Following an interesting presentation about the Book at Wikimedia UK's 2012 AGM, I have considered trying to translate the Domesday Book into English as a Wikisource translation project. I have not attempted this yet but I have started two smaller prelude projects:
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