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How thoughtful of Nature to not be disturbed by people. It was near to the ship, and there Mr. Broadhurst found the traces of two distinct camps, which nearly a century and a half had not obliterated. Indentations were still apparent in the ground made by the feet of the company while moving, in the [...]
[Keywords: Abrolhos Islands, books, History, nature, Reading, W. B. Kimberly, Western Australia, Wikisource] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Because I never make the time elsewhere to get anything done, I have decided to schedule in an hour or so — just a tiny bit of time, but regular (and here I am, for the second time) — every Wednesday afternoon at the local library, to focus on Wikimedia stuff. Not that I’m very [...]
[Keywords: Fremantle, Fremantle Society, laptops, libraries, QR codes, QRpedia, Roel Loopers, Wiki Wednesday, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, wikis, Wikisource] [4 comments] [Permanent link]
Wikisource has begun, at long last, to be able to produce export formats for its books. PDF and Epub have been made available in the last week or so, the first via the WMF-wide book creator tool (which has just started supporting the <pages /> markup that is used on Wikisource to assemble transcribed books) [...]
[Keywords: books, epub, exporting, PDF, Reading, typography, Wikimedia, Wikisource] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have been working again this morning down at the Local History Collection at the library. The newspaper clippings’ catalogue is progressing — up to a hundred and thirty clippings so far — and proving to be quite an interesting project. This morning I got up to the end of 1953, the beginning of ’54, [...]
[Keywords: archiving, cataloguing, Fremantle, indexing, local history, newspapers, volunteering, Wikisource, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
