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WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

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This project relates to the adding of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica to Wikisource. This edition is considered one of the best reference works of all time, and was the biggest edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica with:

• 29 volumes
• 44 million words
• 40,000 articles written by over 1,500 authors within their various fields of expertise.

As such, it was considered to represent a summary of human knowledge in the early 20th Century.

Contents 1 Sub-pages 2 Structure and points of discussion 3 Style Manual 4 Wikimedia Sister Project Advertisement 5 Participants 6 See also 7 Sources

[edit] Sub-pages

• /faq — Frequently Asked Questions for the project; look here first for the answers to your questions.
• /Style Manual
• /Advertisement

[edit] Structure and points of discussion

This is a work in progress, feel free to add to the list of things to consider ;)

• Layout: images, navigation etc.
• Organising wikipedians for this mammoth task.
• Linking to corresponding articles on Wikipedia where appropriate
• Creating categories for content. I.E. Cities, biographies, elements, etc. Just like Wikipedia.
• Providing English translations of Latin and French passages (EB1911 doesn't do this).
• Contrasting smaller (detailed information or extended quotes) with larger fonted portions of an entry.

[edit] Style Manual

• The EB1911 style manual is a general style manual that should be used specifically to this project. Mainly, it is a way to standardize the look and feel of going from one article to another, suggestions on formatting, and in general some tips on what to look for when trying to improve these articles over the raw text from external sources.

[edit] Wikimedia Sister Project Advertisement

The Wikimedia Sister Project Ad is a recruiting tool that is to be edited by current participants to try and get some more help here when we are ready for them. The intention is that the contents of this page will be posted in the "Water Cooler" section of the respective Wikimedia projects to advertise this project among other Wikimedia users. As of right now this is just a draft, and add comments in the Talk page about this if you don't like the tone before it gets sent out.

The targets (for now) of participation and announcement will be on Meta, Wikipedia, and Wiktionary. Wikibooks has plenty of advertising for now, although a general announcement might be in order too, at least to formally let everybody know the project is finally over here at this Wikimedia project.

See comment on talk pageApwoolrich 14:30, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

Add your name here with ~~~~ if you wish to join the team!

• GregRobson 9 July 2005 12:46 (UTC)
• —Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 9 July 2005 15:50 (UTC) (although I can't start until the 17th of July)
• Robert Horning 9 July 2005 17:38 (UTC)
• Apwoolrich 20:23, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• --LEMPERERUR1988 20:21, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• — PhilHibbs | WP:talk | talk 09:16, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
• Brian0918 12:14, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
• Tim Starling 03:44, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• J.Steinbock 02:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Danny 04:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Pmsyyz 08:28, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
• Antireconciler 06:12, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• nikemoto2511 11:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
• Jjbeard 21:58, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
• Politicaljunkie 21:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
• Banjee ca 03:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
• Badbilltucker 18:25, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• Laverock ( Talk ) 09:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• John Kenney 03:27, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
• Psychless 04:24, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
• WikiKing 17:07, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
• SQL^{Query me!} 09:55, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
• Chaucelle 07:56, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
• Toby 14:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
• Jeepday 19:56, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
• Anonymous101 12:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
• Bob Burkhardt 21:36, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
• RDBury (talk) 20:17, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
• Dkb (talk) 03:12, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
• —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:59, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
• Manoel Fernández^Msg 16:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
• --Beachcomber (talk) 12:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] See also

• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• Scanned pages at User:Tim Starling/ScanSet PNG demo — Tim has written a MediaWiki extension to view scanned page images from Andreas Grosz's CD/DVD sets. Brian0918 obtained a DVD and uploaded the images.
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Category:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

[edit] Sources

Sources that can be used to source the text of EB:

• Gutenberg Sources:
  • Format: plain text
  • Completeness: largely incomplete
  • Note: There are several volumes that have recently been proofed and edited by Distributed Proofreaders but are waiting final assembly and clearance from Project Gutenberg for formal release. Expect them to be available in the next several months. Robert Horning 9 July 2005 17:47 (UTC)
    • Volume 1 of 28
    • Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 "Andros" to "Anise"
    • Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
    • Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
    • Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
    • Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
    • Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• Google Book Search:
  • Format: all have machine-readable plain text, with many typos
  • Completeness: complete

Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7

Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 Volume 11 Volume 12 Volume 13 Volume 14

Volume 15 Volume 16 Volume 17 Volume 18 Volume 19 Volume 20 Volume 21

Volume 22 Volume 23 Volume 24 Volume 25 Volume 26 Volume 27 Volume 28

• 1911Encyclopedia.org
  • Format: mediawiki wiki text
  • Completeness: incomplete
  • incomplete but useful for an overview.
• jrank version
  • Format: HTML
  • Completeness: ?
  • many fewer typos
  • includes a lot of hidden text, making copy and paste very difficult. Firefox extension CleanHide removes the hidden text to make copy and paste simple.
• Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders
  • A place to help out if you want to get more EB texts available and proofread.
  • List of Distributed Proofreaders "Britannica" projects
• torrent of 29 djvu volumes, losslessly created from the Tim Starling TIFF files. .torrent
  • Format: DJVU
  • Completeness: ?
• archive.org: Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 Complete
• archive.org: Separate volumes with PDF and Flip-book options
  • Format: Flip-book for online reading, plain text, DJVU, PDF
  • Completeness: complete
• archive.org: ninth edition, 1878
• archive.org: a little of the fourteenth edition, 1929