Wikisource:WikiProject Transactions NZ Institute
TRANSACTIONS
AND
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE
Overview
[edit]The Royal Society of New Zealand, previously called the New Zealand Institute, has published proceedings since 1868. This project will create text versions of those proceedings where copyright has expired.
To do
[edit]This is a high-level list of tasks. Details are in subpages or links to the appropriate Help pages.
- Proofread and validate articles
- To find an article to work on, start with the Topic list and see what interests you
- See Help:Beginner's guide to proofreading and Help:Beginner's guide to validation for guidance
- Transclude proofread articles
- See Transclusion notes for guidance
- Categorise articles
- Sort out Author redlinks (see each volume's Table of Contents)
- Sort out authors with initialisms and honorifics (see Category:Contributors to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute)
- Add links to proofread obituaries to the Works about section on the Author page
- Clean up images from 1888 ff and upload to Commons using the year categories in c:Category:Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
- Proofread and validate Tables of Contents volumes 31 ff
- Validate Tables of Contents volumes 1 to 30
- Proofread and validate appendix in each volume
- Transclude proofread appendices (use Volume 15 as a model)
- Proofread Proceedings in each volume (use Volume 15 as a model)
- Transclude proofread Proceedings (use Volume 15 as a model)
- Proofread and validate the two Index files—including linking all the cross-references
- Maintain Portal:Royal Society of New Zealand
- Create cross-reference templates for internal links
- Create link templates for use on other works
- Add new volumes as they come out of US copyright (as djvu files for consistency). Preferably find scans that aren't on Papers Past due to the licencing issues
- Delete unneeded files on Commons (pdf duplicates and uncleaned up images)
Project members
[edit]- Beeswaxcandle (talk) — general co-ordination
- Ambrosia10 (talk) 02:37, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
- DrThneed (talk) 02:38, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
- Canley (talk)
- Stitchbird2 (talk)
- David Nind (talk)