User:Peteforsyth

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I'm Pete Forsyth.

In April 2020 the Signpost published my essay on why Wikipedia's history matters to the study of collaboration:

Trusting Everybody to Work Together

For more about me, please see my profile on English Wikipedia.

Wikisource projects

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Awards for contribution

Proofread of the Month
November 2011

Special: Validation month

26 validated works

Proofread of the Month
November 2014

Special: Validation month
26 works

Oregon

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Encyclopedia articles about Oregon

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Modoc War

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  • Complete (but need validation): volumes Vol. 1 through 4, 7. Other volumes in progress.

Marcus Whitman

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Other

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Open education

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Wikimedia

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Miscellaneous free culture

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Miscellaneous government & politics

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Miscellaneous literature

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Miscellaneous history

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To do

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Stuff to explore

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Fun

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For future reference

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To extract and replace text in a djvu file:

Rename on GNU/Linux command line

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$ ls
23-aa hello aaa23-aa
$ rename 's/^[0-9]*-//;' *
$ ls
aa hello aaa23-aa

Search non-transcribed pages

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Enter page: subpageof:"Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf" gleanings into the search field. The first bit is the namespace, the second the wikipage name minus the namespace prefix, and the last is your search term. Page names with spaces in them must be enclosed in quote marks (as is the case here). (per Xover/WS:S)

and put new text between the two slashes