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The Irish Land Acts: a short sketch of their history and development (1917)
by William Frederick Bailey
https://t.co/UQV6A8KsDy
#HistoryOfIreland#LandReform
The Medical School of the Melbourne University: an address delivered on the twenty fifth anniversary of the opening of the Medical School, in the Wilson Hall, March 23, 1887 by James Edward Neild
https://t.co/Oi4eWZu3Vp
#UniversityOfMelbourne
We’re thrilled to share a proposal to extend the work of the #WikiCite community, to support Wikimedia Projects and make citations:
• easier for the editor,
• more useful for the reader,
• and more efficient for our architecture.
#SharedCitations
https://t.co/pqVwQLApNa
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@wikisource_en produced 64 proofread works in #january2021
F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gadsby" arrived in public domain
https://t.co/mAvbEVxtEb
21stC x 4
20thC x 35
19thC x 24
18thC x1
also seeing Biden Administration works appearing.
''Thom's Irish Who's Who'' (1923) by publisher Alexander Thom & Co
https://t.co/Qis7lxxkzK
@wikisource_en
2350 biographical entries (approx.) from 266 pages
15 months of plodding
#Ireland#Biographies #1923
All entries put into @wikidata
@Wikimedia@wm_au@wikimediauk@WikimediaEdu wondering if there is a need/appetite for @wikisource_en ppl to run online sessions about transcribing. #wikisource
We're notorious for just doing our transcriptions, being welcoming and not having blow-ups 🤷♂️ https://t.co/WPbPeHznHf
English Wikisource (September 2020)—23 works transcribed from 1705 to 2018
https://t.co/JH8MmVOEMD
3x 18thC
7x 19thC
12x 20thC
1x 21stC
@wikisource_en#poetry#skis#stories#lectures#Czech#homerule
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910)
by Emma Orczy
English Wikisource (August 2020)—35 works transcribed from 1626 through 1958
https://t.co/Cr2RcSn1Gr
@wikisource_en@wikisource
2x 17thC
1x 18thC
16x 19thC
16x 20thC
An Appeal to England against the Execution of the Condemned Fenians (1867)
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
@wikisource_en
25 works completed presented to the community in May 2020
https://t.co/MD50cUrux5
Not to mention all the chapbooks contributed by the @natlibscot and transcribed by their staff
https://t.co/fRxqSxaQSQ
@natlibscot Great to have some of your people transcribing works from your collection. I can see some 500+ indexes at this time.
Hope that we are getting the right assistance to your team, and can get some analytics and some good display of the works. #KeptBusy
Mrs. Caroline Norton (British author and early advocate for women's rights)
The Maclise Portrait-Gallery of "Illustrious Literary Characters" with memoirs (1883) by William Bates, illustrated by Daniel Maclise
https://t.co/4zJLX3HtBZ
English Wikisource has just reached the milestone of 50% of works' pages being backed by scans (rather than being directly typed in with no fixed relationship with a scanned image).
https://t.co/dNbqcIKSMQ
#WikipediaDay