User talk:Brianmc

Hello, Brianmc, welcome to Wikisource! Thanks for your interest in the project; we hope you'll enjoy the community and your work here. If you need help, see our help pages (especially Adding texts and Wikisource's style guide). You can discuss or ask questions from the community in general at the Scriptorium. The Community Portal lists tasks you can help with if you wish. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page.

You might be interested in Help:Side by side image view for proofreading. You can upload the entire pdf as a single file to Commons and get results like this for editing and this for the end result. If you are using Firefox the mouse zooms in on the text in the editing image.--BirgitteSB 11:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I asked in #wikisource about this, I've still to read most of these documents for a piece on Wikinews. The case I'm uploading details of is a Racial harassment in the DC police, and it should be closing soon. Some of the documents are scans while some are PDFs that could be cut and pasted from. --Brianmc 11:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Any image can be used in the proofread page extention. However a pdf or dju could be uploaded once for all pages and other scans would need to have individual pages uploaded. The extension is meant to simplify for proofreading, but it can be useful for transcription as well.--BirgitteSB 11:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Currently we mainly host the opinions of court cases. I am worried that you may run into copyright problems with some of the documents from the proceedings. I don't know for certain either way. But it is an issue we have been worried about and you may want to keep that in mind that research is needed to be done in this area.--BirgitteSB 12:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, all these documents are publicly available via the PACER system for a nominal fee of 8 cents per page. The final judgement isn't up yet but I want these documents available somewhere for collaborative work on Wikinews. I'm lazy I know - hoping that someone else will turn them into text documents, but I'll get the hang of WikiSource eventually. :) --Brianmc 14:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

The decisions are public domain as part of the law. But other documents in a court case could still be copyrighted, which has nothing to with being publicly available or not. It depends on who wrote the document. Anything written by private lawyers will be copyrighted, even things written by state prosecutors may be copyrighted. Stuff written by federal prosecutors will be public domain. I am not sure about how all these documents came to be written or who wrote them, but you can see the reason for concern.--BirgitteSB 12:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Media

Please upload images and other media at Wikimedia Commons. Thanks. —Benn Newman ^(AMDG) 13:46, 1 November 2007 (UTC)