User talk:AdamBMorgan/2011

Latest comment: 12 years ago by AdamBMorgan in topic Wikisource Conservatism portal

Wikisource referencing

  What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
For coming up with an elegant solution to both meeting the guidelines for Wikipedia citations and creating a way to update the existing mess of templates. Theornamentalist (talk) 15:42, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

British Library follow-up

 

Thank you for participating in the English and Drama Editathon at the British Library on June 4. I hope you enjoyed the day and got something useful out of it.

If you are new to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, I hope you had any questions or problems answered and maybe found being a contributor as addictive as many of the regulars do. If you've got any questions or need help, please feel free to ask any of us on our talk page or by e-mail (, Tom Morris, Sadads, James F., RHaworth, The Land, AdamBMorgan), ask on the British Library collaboration page or through the Wikipedia Help Desk.

If you are interested in working on Wikipedia, you might want to consider joining one of the WikiProjects. These are places where team work between editors interested in a particular topic can be coordinated. Some suggestions for WikiProjects that may be of interest to you as a participant in the event on Saturday include Literature, Poetry or Science Fiction. A full list of literature and language related WikiProjects can be found here, and a list of all WikiProjects is here. The WikiProjects often have things that need doing, and if you need help you can often ask in their talk page.

But there are other places you can get involved. If you are interested on working on images, such as improving image descriptions, categorisation or uploading new media, consider getting involved in Wikimedia Commons. Wikisource also needs people willing to help make available original source material, and Wikiquote is trying to compile a directory of quotes which you may be able to contribute to.

If you want to continue some of the work we got started on Saturday, here are a few potential things to help with:

  • Following on from work on Ella D'Arcy on Saturday, work has started to make all of The Yellow Book available on Wikisource. If you go to the page on Wikisource and pick a volume then click on 'scan index' you can start helping to proofread pages from the journal - simply click on the page you want to work on, and go through to check that the text on the left reflects the text on the right. If you need any help with getting started, please ask User:Tom Morris.
  • If you created any new articles at the event, you might want to submit them to Did you know?.
  • If you are able to translate into other languages, why not pick one of the articles we worked on, translate it and post it on another language version of Wikipedia: there are now versions in hundreds of languages. On Wikimedia Commons, it is also possible to provide multilingual descriptions of images and categories: this enables editors on the other language versions to better find images and media files they can use in their project.
  • If you need images from the British Library to illustrate articles, please add them to the image requests page. If you would like a British LIbrary curator to help collaborate on an article, please add it to the collaborations page.
  • You might also be interested in attending GLAMcamp London.
  • To explore more articles related to the British Library, visit Portal:British Library.

Whatever you do, please tell us about the positive and negative experiences you have. On behalf of the organisers of the event, thanks again.

Tom Morris (talk) 11:27, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Gondal (fictional country)

Materialscientist (talk) 18:05, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Styles and themes of Robert E. Howard

Materialscientist (talk) 10:04, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

 

Hi AdamBMorgan, just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Arbitrarily0 (talk) 04:06, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Citations

Hi, re this edit - please don't use the parameter |accessed= - all that it does is to place the page in hidden category Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters. Instead, use |accessdate=, which adds the text "Retrieved on ..." to the citation. Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:31, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

  The Editor's Barnstar
Thanks for your extraordinary efforts improving the article about Wikisource. John Vandenberg (chat) 00:23, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikisource Conservatism portal

Thank you for creating the portal and updating portal:Conservatism! I think it will be a great tool for improving conservatism articles. I think project members would be interested in learning about how Wikisource operates and how to use it here on Wikipedia. Would you have some time for a brief interview for The Right stuff? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lionelt (talkcontribs) 23:40, 1 November 2011‎ (UTC)

It's part of what I do as a Wikisource admin and I'm happy to answer any questions you have for The Right stuff. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 22:35, 2 November 2011 (UTC)