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Did you know ...... what Wikisource is ? Really is ? From Danny Wool, flash on Wikisource provided on one of our mailing list I thought it would be a good idea to share some news about another project, the English Wikisource, which has been doing some remarkable work in the past few months, thanks to a small group of dedicated editors and contributors. of some of the major Russian poets, including Baratynsky, Mandelstam, and Pushkin. Here is just one example: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/More_tender_than_tender_ [2]. BirgitteSB managed to find a document in French, describing the establishment of colonies along the Mississippi. It has already been transcribed and posted to French Wikisource, and a new English translation is on the way. You can see it
here: _http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_account_of_the_founding_of_St._Louis_ [3]. Finally, a word about other encyclopedias – we have them too, and many different ones to keep us busy. Laverock is hard at work adding the original letter B articles from the 1911 edition of Britannica, but we also have specialized encyclopedias of Catholicism, the Bible, and more. Shanel, BookofJude, Shimgray and others have been adding to The New Student's Reference Work, a 1914 edition of an encyclopedia for young people: Here is an article about Australia: _http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work/Australia_ The_New_Student's_Reference_Work/Australia. Some of our texts appear nowhere else on the Internet. These include poems by Francis Ledwidge (_http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Francis_Ledwidge_ [6] and the Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus, is being developed by Zhaladshar. Soon to come are the diaries of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Also, keep an eye out for our new French Literature portal, which was developed by our friends in French Wikisource. You will probably notice the specialized headers on each of these pages, which were created by Pathoschild. They help to create a uniformity among all the texts, and make it easier to skip from one chapter to the next. This is just some of the news from the English Wikisource. I hope people will drop by and suggest ways that can help their pet projects by providing a reliable system of internal sources. With all these projects underway, we are also looking for volunteers to help transcribe, translate, scan, proof, link, and add their favorite texts. All of the projects mentioned above are "in progress," and we need all the help we can get. For more information, drop by the #wikisource channel on IRC.
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