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Collaboration of the Week

The current community collaboration is collecting works related to
the Eminent Women Series.

Last collaboration: Slavery in the United States (1837)


The current Proofread of the Month is

A Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet  (1902)
by Sarat Chandra Das.

Last month completed: The Tower
The next scheduled collaboration will begin in June.



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Yann (talk) 18:34, 16 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

PSM Categorization[edit]

Thanks for your efforts on the PSM article categorization. For category by subject selections I assembled THIS LIST for reference. If you create or use a category for PSM, could you kindly just add it to the list? Many thanks.— Ineuw talk 10:57, 19 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

Wikisource User Group[edit]

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Reminder: Community Insights Survey[edit]

RMaung (WMF) 17:04, 4 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Short titles.[edit]

Thanks for the updates, moves. You might also want to get the {{Short-title}} set of templates updated along with the underlying module?

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:45, 8 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Pagination issue in Index:The Complete Peerage Ed 1 Vol 6.djvu[edit]

Starting from what should be the Table of Contents page, all the pages in this set are off by twelve (i.e. the text shown is not for the page image shown, but for the page image twelve pages later). BD2412 T 18:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C[edit]

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