User talk:Erik hammerstrom

Revision as of 20:24, 13 July 2009

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I've looked through all the periodical entries, many of them still need work but it's not material that I can access from home at the moment.

Re: the section I changed on your user page, that covers photographs for both the PRC and the ROC - and since photographs are primarily what we're reproducing here I thought it would be handy to have.

--Greg 10:33, 17 June 2009 (CST)

Great ideas on both accounts. Any outside sources for more information on institutions? It might be worthwhile to search the MFQ(B) and see if there are any announcements regarding them that might offer some more information.

--Greg 00:02, 19 June 2009 (CST)

I'll run through the institution articles today, then I'll help with looking through the biographical ones. The guidelines you've written up look great, I'll keep those in mind as I look through them.

If you find that Haichaoyin might have a photograph of someone for whom we need an image, I can scan from the original 2003 reprint, which is very good quality. The DDM index does indicate whether a piece is a written article or a photo, so a quick search for the person's name might turn up a photograph or two.

Also, we should think about making up redirect pages for each person's alternative names, at least the more popular ones. Although the search engine does a great job of producing the main article when you input a style or dharma name.

--Greg 22:48, 20 June 2009 (CST)

I installed the GoogleMaps extension - check it out on the 南京 page. It's really versatile, could be really useful for geographical and institutional articles.

Note that the "make a map" function doesn't work in this version of Mediawiki.

--Greg 23:13, 20 June 2009 (CST)

Working through the biography articles. I made up a template for a resource that I cite quite often: Template:ZJFRZ. I could make up similar templates for other sources too, if you think they'd be useful.

--Greg 09:11, 22 June 2009 (CST)

That's precisely how it works. I'll make up templates for the other major source we use, including Welch.

I'm trying to finish my article draft by the 1st though, and working part-time now, so my contributions may come at a slower pace than before. I think we're still in a great position to open by August though!

--Greg 20:44, 24 June 2009 (CST)

I haven't been able to find a listing for a multi-volume ZJFRZ. If we do have a multi-volume bibliographic template though, we can always use X:YYY in the citation, where X is the volume number. I think you've already done this for other citations.

For the ones that have 續編 and even 再續編, they should definitely have separate templates, because the year will probably be different, and the publication info may be as well.

--Greg 03:35, 26 June 2009 (CST)

Draft Announcement

I think the announcement is good to go. The two paragraphs regarding content are important, I think, and will help to put the idea of CC-licensed content in the minds of the readers. I edited the main URL slightly to be shorter, it still works and automagically redirects to the main page.

--Greg 20:24, 13 July 2009 (CST)