User:Qq1122qq
| Awards for participation |
|---|
Most of the works below have illustrations, and these are generally collected together [in galleries on Commons].
Useful Characters and Templates
[edit]Will be updated with characters that I keep searching for.
★ - filled 5 pointed star
⁂ - Weirdly the standard asterism in Unicode is 'upside down' compared to the version you normally see in old books, hence this `inverted asterism` template.
− - a minus, which isn't a dash!
āēīōūȳăĕĭŏŭy̆ - a collection of breves and whatever the other symbol is called!
Dual line is very useful when you want two words
like this to appear vertically aligned in the middle of normal text.
Works
[edit]| Volume | Progress | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_1).djvu | ✔ | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_2).djvu | ✔ | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_3).djvu | done apart from music | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_4).djvu | done apart from music | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_5).djvu | ✔ | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_6).djvu | some work done | |||||||
| Index:The_Strand_Magazine_(Volume_7).djvu | some work done |
I've been interested in digitising The Strand Magazine for literally decades, and some of the original PG Strand Magazine uploads were done from my scans. One of my early motivations in 'returning' to WS was in finally getting The Strand Magazine done 'properly'. It's a lot of work to crop and upload the images - for these I'm using the scans that I originally uploaded to IA more than 10 years ago!
One major admin effort with these is adding Contents Pages for each issue, as these are generally not included in scans (they would have been in the advertising section which is generally removed when the issues are bound into 6-monthly volumes). I've now added these for the first 10 volumes, using the information from http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k10/k10309.htm
Going further, I'm now also putting the information about the articles on the individual author pages. Currently all the information for the first 10 volumes is done - the aim is to get full contents pages for the first 20 volumes (everything from the 19th century).
April 25: I've recently spend quite a lot of time refreshing the main contents page for The Strand Magazine, so that all of the transclusion work that people have done on later volumes is now properly represented on this main page.
| Volume | Progress | Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vol. 147 (Jul-Dec 1914) | ✔ after a LOT of work! | ||||||
| Vol. 148 & 149 (Jan-Dec 1915) | Vol. 148 main issues now done. |
I also find the WW1-era Punch magazines very interesting -- seeing how the comfortable pre-WW1 world was utterly changed in September 1914. The 1914 volume took a lot of work, some of it semi-automated, to fully transcribe, including cropping hundreds of images, and linking the index to all the articles and authors. I'm now coming back to volume 148, and wishing that I had properly documented my 'semi-automated' steps for Volume 147 - there's a lot of work to move between page numbers, and issue numbers!
| ... | |||||
| Index:The_Gentleman's Magazine 1731-05.pdf | Done. | ||||
| Index:The_Gentleman's Magazine 1731-06.pdf | Done. | ||||
| Index:The_Gentleman's Magazine 1731-07.pdf | Ready to proofread. | ||||
| Index:The_Gentleman's Magazine 1731-08.pdf | Ready to proofread. | ||||
| ... | |||||
The first monthly magazine (which originally meant 'storehouse'), famous for publishing many of Samuel Johnson's early works such as his reports of Parliamentary proceedings. The first 12 issues are on the site, and the first 6 are proofread and transcribed.
| ... | |||
| Index:The_Grub-street Journal - 022.pdf | |||
| Index:The_Grub-street Journal - 023.pdf | |||
| Index:The_Grub-street Journal - 024.pdf | |||
| Index:The_Grub-street Journal - 025.pdf | |||
| ... | |||
Issues for 1730
While working on the Gentleman's Magazine I came to enjoy the excerpts it gave from The Grub-street Journal, and then discovered that a complete archive of it exists on archive.org - it ran for 8 years so there's a lot to get through, but each issue is only 4 pages long, so it looks like a fun project to set up - focusing on 1730 for the moment.
| Volume | Progress | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index:The_New_York_Times,_1918-11-11.pdf | ✔ End of WW1 | |||||
| Index:The_New_York_Times,_1865-04-15.pdf | Death of Lincoln | |||||
| Index:The New York Times, 1929-10-24.pdf | Start of 1929 stock market crash |
My focus on this is getting a complete proofread/transcribe of some important historical dates, as well as getting the page structure organised. The page structure is now looking a lot better than it was when I first worked on it, although I'm still not sure what the point of a 'portal' is! At the main page now makes it possible for readers to browse through the large amount of articles that other people have proofread and transcribed.
Comptometer-Related Material
[edit]| Index:Comptometer_News_1.1.djvu | ✔ Done | |||
| Index:Comptometer_News_1.2.djvu | Illustrations cropped and uploaded. | |||
| Index:Comptometer_News_1.3.djvu | Illustrations cropped and uploaded. | |||
| Index:Comptometer_News_1.4.djvu | Illustrations cropped and uploaded. |
A surprisingly long lived quarterly news bulletin covering events in the lives of Comptometer operatives worldwide.
Other Material Being Worked On
[edit]| Index:The_Whetstone_of_Witte.djvu | Preface done. |
The Whetstone of Witte is the first English algebra textbook, and one that I have used material from for a long time. It's definitely worth transcribing, but has a few problems - if nothing else, the 'cossic' symbols are not in Unicode!
| Index:Notes and Queries - Series 1 - Volume 1.djvu | Issues Done: First 15. |
I'm not entirely sure why I get attracted to periodicals above everything else, but back in the PGDP days I spent quite a lot of time working on Notes and Queries, and the state of it in Wikisource is rather poor - it looks like people have concentrated on getting five million page images on the site, without ever getting anything proofread. So, I'm starting to work through Series 1, Volume 1.
| The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp | First couple of chapters done. |
An interesting autobiography of a Welsh tramp-poet, which I read over the summer and then realised it wasn't in WS. Looks like the index was created a few years ago but has had no work done on it until now.
| Index:The Bell System Technical Journal, Volume 1, 1922.pdf | Some articles done, illustrations for 1.1 |
I have proofread a couple of articles from this journal + processed the illustrations.
| Index:The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection.djvu | Index created. |
A key work integrating Darwinian evolution with Mendelian genetics.
| Index:Electrical Experimenter - 1919.02.pdf | Index created. |
An early popular science magazine which changed its name a couple of times and eventually merged with Popular Mechanics in 1931. This issue contains some interesting material on and by Nikola Tesla.
| Index:The Cumulative Book Review Digest, Volume 1, 1905.djvu | 1 page a day! |
I came across this when looking for archives of book reviews. It is an edited collection of reviews of books from a wide selection of different journals, and seems perfectly calculated to turn into a massive time sink for me! Created 5 years ago, no one had proofread any pages until I came along, so I've put together what seems like a sensible formatting scheme, and will slowly be working on it from time to time. Let's see if it takes another 5 years to get finished!
| Advertising Age - 1930.01.11 | Done. | |||
| Advertising Age - 1930.01.18 | Done. | |||
| Advertising Age - 1930.01.25 | Index created. | |||
| Advertising Age - 1930.02.01 | Index created. |
Advertising Age is a long-running magazine, starting as a weekly newspaper in 1930. This is the very first issue.
| Time - 1930.03.24 | Done. | ||||
| Time - 1930.06.09 | Done. |
Time is a long-running weekly news magazine. I chose this issue because it has a picture of Al Capone on the front cover! Time has a really good archive of its old issues so there's less need to be preserving this periodical on WS, but I may well do some other key issues.
Completed Works
[edit]| The Life and Writings of Alexandre Dumas | ✔ |
I worked on this as a 'palate cleanser' between harder projects. I processed as it was linked from the Author page for Dumas, who featured in several Strand Magazine issues.
| Blackwood's Magazine - Volume 2 | Issue 12 done! |
I've been specifically concentrating on Issue 12 of Blackwood's Magazine, as it contained a couple of articles I was interested in, and in particular an early review of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. As I've proofread it I've grown to enjoy its style - it's similar in conception to the Gentleman's Magazine, but 100 years later and Scottish. I've now completed proofreading the issue that contained that review, and I'm not planning on doing any more work on it in the immediate future.
| Methods of Operating the Comptometer (1895) | ✔ |
The manual of an early calculating machine, and the first one to gain widespead popularity. There are several editions, books of exercises, and both US and UK magazines from the 20s onwards. Initially found due to a reference in a jobs advert in the 1918 New York Times. I'm happy to see that this has gone through the Monthly Challenge and is now completely validated. It may be a while before any other work that I've contributed to the site reaches the same status!
| The Radio Times - 1923.09.28 | ✔ |
The Radio Times was the official listing magazine of the BBC, starting in 1923, and continuing into the 21st century. This is the very first issue, from 1923. I like the idea of proofreading more of these but, if I do, I'll probably focus on the articles rather than the listings (which are already available from the BBC). This one is completed, though, so there's a formatting base to work on.
| The Metropolis of Tomorrow | ✔ |
An interesting early work on city planning and the architecture of 'skyscrapers'.
| A Perfect diurnall of the passages in Parliament - 1642.06.20 | ✔ |
An early news-book, A Perfect diurnall is arguably one of the first ever newspapers - a weekly record of the proceedings of Parliament. It ran in various guises through the English Civil War, with many imitators.
| Volume | Progress | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Popular Mechanics - 1928.01 | ✔ | ||||
| Popular Mechanics - 1928.11 | ✔ |
I recently found that Popular Mechanics had a great archive of scans on IA, and have dived into the most recent copyright-free issues (from 1928 as of when this is written). All the 1928 issues have index pages. Often the 'behind the scenes' admin is just as time consuming as the proofreading with projects like this - most recently all of the named authors have been linked to their own WS pages.
I'm not planning on doing any more issues of this in the near future.
| Photoplay - 1929.07 | ✔ Done | |||
| Photoplay - 1929.08 | ✔ Done | |||
| Photoplay - 1929.09 | ✔ Done | |||
| Photoplay - 1929.10 | ✔ Done | |||
| Photoplay - 1929.11 | ✔ Done | |||
| Photoplay - 1929.12 | ✔ Done |
What do you do when you have 10 active projects? Start another one! Photoplay was one of the first fan-oriented Hollywood movie periodicals, and is a great record of how movies were reviewed when they first came out. The next few years will be very interesting as the early years of the 'talkies' come out of copyright. This was the July-December 1929 volume, and it is now completed.
| Fortune - 1930.02.pdf | Done. |
The long-running American business magazine Fortune (from the same publishers as Time, and, still to come, Life in 1934) started in 1930. Here's the very first issue.
| Index:The Annual Register 1758.djvu | Transcluded. |
The Annual Register is important work of British 'official history', including the founding of the 'Black Hole of Calcutta' mythos that lead to the British military focus on India in the 2nd half of the 18th century. Not my index creation, but languished for a long time before I picked it back up. After 3 years of off and on work, it's transcluded and our work is done.
'Shelved' Projects
[edit]| The Illustrated London News - 1923-02-24 | Index created. |
An incredibly long-running weekly illustrated newspaper, and yet another Sisyphean project that I would never be able to complete! I'm looking at specific interesting issues to work on, and this is the 'Egypt Special' coinciding with the wave of interest due to the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb. Lots of nice illustrations, but sadly it's all from microfilm so the quality is not as good as it could be. I also don't want to have to deal with moving images back and forth to Commons based on UK copyright law, so I will probably shelve this project for the moment.
| The Origin of Modern Calculating Machines | Just created. |
An illustrated book on the history of calculating machines from 1921. From Chicago so with a Compometer bias! Vaguely interested, but very low priority to work on.
| The Arts - Volume 1 | Issues 1 and 2 done. |
I have wanted to work on a 'modern art' journal for some time, and this looks like a good one - published for around 10 years from 1920 into the early 1930s. Sadly it looks like uploading the art to Commons would get very complicated due to the need for everything to be out of copyright in both the US and the country of origin, and I don't really want to have to deal with that.