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The Irish Land Acts: a short sketch of their history and development (1917)
by William Frederick Bailey
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#HistoryOfIreland #LandReform
ALT House erected by the Estates Commissioners on the Pollock Estate, Glinsk, County Galway
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Women's Votes in New Zealand and Australia (1907) by Nellie Alma Martel
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#WomensSuffrage #Australia #NewZealand #womenpower @wikisource_en
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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
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#UniversityOfMelbourne
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February 2021 @wikisource_en 55 works created
19thC x 13
20thC x 35
21stC x 7
#silentmovies #leagueofnations #pamphlets #poetry #legislation
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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
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English Wikisource retweeted
@wikisource_en produced 64 proofread works in #january2021
F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gadsby" arrived in public domain
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21stC x 4
20thC x 35
19thC x 24
18thC x1
also seeing Biden Administration works appearing.
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@wikisource_en November 2020
24 works
* 2x 17thC
* 14x 19thC
* 8x 20thC
#Kipling #spooner #Verne #Tagore +++
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inlcuding "Waylaid by Wireless" an 1909 mystery novel by Edwin Balmer
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''Thom's Irish Who's Who'' (1923) by publisher Alexander Thom & Co
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@wikisource_en
2350 biographical entries (approx.) from 266 pages
15 months of plodding
#Ireland #Biographies #1923
All entries put into @wikidata
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@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 🤷♂️ en.wikisource.org
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English Wikisource (September 2020)—23 works transcribed from 1705 to 2018
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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
ALT book cover "Lady Molly of Scotland Yard"
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English Wikisource (August 2020)—35 works transcribed from 1626 through 1958
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@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
English Wikisource retweeted
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25 works completed presented to the community in May 2020
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Not to mention all the chapbooks contributed by the @natlibscot and transcribed by their staff
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@wikisource_en March saw English Wikisource complete 47 works
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earliest 1675, latest 2020 covering #COVID19 #Ireland #CuckooEggs #Santa #WoodEngraving +++
Quirky collection again
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@wikisource_en 33 works proofread and published in December, to a total of 339 works noted for the year. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikis…
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New works proofread at English Wikisource (November 2019)
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@wikisource_en 40 works between 1817 and 1921
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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
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@wikisource_en English Wikisource's October 2019 completed works
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#enwikisource No author's repeated
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).
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#WikipediaDay
English poet Adelaide Procter was born #OTD in 1825. Lines from Procter's #poem UNEXPRESSED are etched on seven tablets located on the walls of the Thomas Jefferson Building @librarycongress. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proct… #DNBdates
"No real Poet ever wove in numbers
All his dream..."
