User:CalRis25

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary

This is the project site for the Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, which aims to be a "glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans." The project Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary is named thus after the book Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon by Anthony Rich (first edition from 1849), the content of which, transcribed by the present user, forms the initial data set (RICH-1849). For brevity sake the project will be referred to as RICH-2K. The official name of the project is Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary. For more about the project (including why the shorter name instead of the complete name of the book) see the Project Description.

This page and section acts as a directory for the project-related pages until the project is up and running.

Directory

• User:CalRis25/Sandbox: Sandbox for testing wikitext.
• User:CalRis25/RICH: Road to RICH-2K: Draft version of reminiscences about the origins of this project.
• Project Description: Description of the project. What it is (not) about? What is its scope? How can users contribute?
• Project Layout: How should subpages be used to organize this project?
• Project Status: Things-to-do list with status of the project.
• Templates: Templates necessary for this project.
• Categories: Categories necessary for this project.
• Categories of the Classed Index: Categories contained in the Classed Index of RICH-1849.
• Citing Sources: How to cite sources.
• Test pages:
  • [Moved into mainspace] Test Main Page: Draft of the project's main page.
  • [Moved into mainspace] Project Description: Draft of the public Project Description
  • Project Rules: Rules for the project.
  • Recommended Editions: Recommended online editions, to which to link when citing texts.
  • [Moved into mainspace] Classed Index 1849: Draft of the project's Classed Index 1849-page.
  • [Moved into mainspace] Greek Index 1849: Draft of the project's Greek Index 1849-page.
  • Article List 1849: Draft of the project's Article List 1849-page.
  • [Moved into mainspace] How to contribute: Draft of the How to contribute-page.
  • Test article 1: Test-article.
  • [Moved into mainspace] Technical Aspects: A description of technical aspects of this project, providing an overview of categories, templates, and design decision.
  • Categories of the Classed Index (Draft of the public version): This page provides an overview of the categories of the Classed Index.

Wikiversity: Relevant pages

• Colloquium-thread "RICH-2K: New project with some initial questions"
• Wikiversity:Policies
  • Wikiversity:External_links
• Pages dealing with categories:
  • Wikiversity:Categories: Introduction to Wikiversity's approach to categorization.
  • Wikiversity:FAQ/Categorization: Specifics of categorization.
  • Special:Categories: List of all existing categories.
• Pages dealing with subpages. RICH-2K probably will heavily use subpages.
  • Wikiversity:Subpages
  • Wikiversity:Subpages/Forking and organizing
  • Help:Subpages
• Formatting etc.
  • mw:Help:Images
• Mediawiki
  • API-description
  • API:Edit: This one will be needed for bulk-uploading articles.
• External non-wikimedia links (Test):
  • Pywikibot documentation
  • Manual:Pywikibot
  • Manual:Pywikibot/Scripts
  • Manual:Pywikibot/Installation
  • Perseus Digital Library

Problems to be solved. Questions to be answered.

Unsolved problems:

• User search for article: How can the user find a specific article within RICH-2K? After all, Wikiversity's search field provides a search across the entire Wikiversity. Is there a way to restrict the search to the RICH-2K-namespace (i. e. Level 1 in the project's layout)? See User:CalRis25/RICH: Layout.
  • Solution: Search-input box, which is incorporated in the project's Navbox (see below).
• Is it possible to implement a Random article-function which applies only to the RICH-2K-namespace?
  • Possible solution: Special:RandomInCategory/RICH-2K/Articles

Solved problems:

• [SOLVED] RICH-2K will need quite a few of its own categories. Some of these are content-categories and are stand-ins for the categories in RICH-1849's Classed Index (for a list see RICH: Classed Index). Others will be more of an administrative kind (To-Do).
• [SOLVED] External links: This project will need many external links. The Recommended Editions (see above) alone probably will have several hundred external links. However, only relatively few web-sites will be involved, and most of these should be trustworthy. Perhaps there is a list of web-sites, for which external links are generally allowed?
  • Solution: External links seem to be working now. According to a user's answer Wikiversity uses a blacklist-model instead of whitelist-one. Plus it is fine to aggregate external links in learning resources.
  • For classical references see w:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classical_Greece_and_Rome/Guides
• [SOLVED] The project needs a navigation-template which is displayed at the top of each page (except for the project's main page). See Template:Navbox for more about this.
  • Solution: The template is accessible at Template:Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Navbox. For more on the project's templates see User:CalRis25/RICH: Templates.