“ If you want to figure out if BenchBot has added a case (for example, Sellers v. Dialogue) , then type in the citation (for example, 27 U.S. 1) , and it will take you to the case. BenchBot always creates a redirect from the citation to the case. The citation is almost always unique and consistent. Volume 26, for example, is entirely uploaded, although the index needs to be updated by checking the citation (26 U.S. 1, 26 U.S. 18 . . . 26 U.S. 686) . I have a list of name->citation pairs that I can upload, if you want. ”

“ TIA. — George Orwell III (talk) Ok, I did a test run on the compilation of EOs from 1978. I didn't have any trouble downloading the tiffs/text from HT—it took about 2hrs for 434 pages. It took me a little longer to convert everything to djvu, run ocr, and upload the files. I'm not very familiar with djvulibre or imagemagick. If I uploaded a zip of the images, text, and metadata that I downloaded from HT, would you be interested in handling the rest (converting to djvu, ocr, upload to WS) ? ”

“ Same goes for large swaths of indented sections or sub-sections under a paragraph typically found in legalish works -- its better to address this in the transclusion rather than trying to get things to line up from one Page to the next. However, simple things (bold text, small-caps or italics) should be made within the Page: namespace just as they are found in the original scanned djvu or pdf files. ”

“ We will need to manually move a concurrence-dissent to the proper page. If you happen to notice phrases (in the syllabus, such as "Justice ___ concurring in part and dissenting in part," or phrases at the start of the opinion) , those will be useful to update BenchBot to detect concurrence-dissents. Even if you just collect a list of cases with concurrence-dissents, that would be helpful. stephen (talk) 14:50, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Quick question, are you still importing all the cases by volume to the case name list that you created? ”

“ Uploading the original scans will allow users to proofread and verify the text through the ProofreadPage extension. What type of files are the scans of the source text? Common file types include TIFF, JPEG, and PDF. For many file types, you can use Any2DjVu to convert your scans to DJVU. Once you have a DJVU file, you can upload it to commons and begin adding the text to Wikisource. Cheers, stephen (talk) 17:11, 7 October 2010 (UTC) Reaching Out Hi again,
How hard would it be to create a list of all the parameters and their values currently found in in existing EO headers? ”

“ Well after spining my wheels for an hour or two I have come to realize something isn't quite right with 1938 the first. Besides the Trust's scan itself duplicating scan page numbers 158 (djvu 172) & 159 (djvu 173) again in djvu pages 174 & 175 before returning to normal in scan page number 160 (djvu 176) , something to do with first djvu page itself and its resolution of 1 × 1 causes the thumbnails normally displayed in both edit-view and view-view modes in the Page: namspace not to appear at all; they go to all black instead. ”

“ All I'm trying to do is generate a master-list with the pure parameter values to start getting rid of the 3 or 4 different ways EOs are listed now while still being able to build other lists in the future if and when the need arises. George Orwell III (talk) 06:49, 5 November 2010 (UTC) I wrote this script to gather the data from each transclusion of {{Potus-eo}} via api. The question is, how do you want the data delivered? I can output the data however it is most useful, such as formatting for a template similar to {{Eolist2-item}}. ”

“ It would also be useful to make a giant checklist for federal and state law available on wikisource. I am drafting the project here. stephen (talk) 15:11, 25 May 2010 (UTC) I'll help out with the draft. I agree that a unifying Wikiproject is best. Other projects can be considered sub-projects of the main legal Wikiproject. Regarding federal statutes, I've been adding some of those by way of the United States Code. Legalskeptic (talk) 15:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC) P.S., I made a {{User WikiProject Law}} template so we can rep the project on our user pages. ”

“ My preference is to keep everything before the Back Matter start as one piece; followed by keeping everything before the Table list start as one piece and so as allowable. — — George Orwell III (talk) 02:29, 28 February 2011 (UTC) Compilation 1938 is 1450 pages and 111.1MB, and it is the largest I have seen so far. I tried splitting at the tables, but it was still too large. I split it at Reciprocal Tariff Letters: File:EOCompilation1938_first.djvu and File:EOCompilation1938_second.djvu. George, is that workable? ”

“ Ideas? George Orwell III (talk) 21:37, 29 September 2010 (UTC) Great work cleaning up that case! The text we are importing is imperfect, so 18 U.S. 153 is a good example how Wikisource can improve the quality of material beyond what is already available from other sites. I think it's a good idea to put case name disambig pages in a category. How about Category:Case disambiguation pages? Well since I started locating and then comparing the Lawyer's Edition scans over on Hathi Trust to what Archive.org, OpenJurist, etc. ”

“ F--k it, we'll do it live! - LegalSkeptic (talk) 23:05, 25 May 2010 (UTC) Hello all. While I'm of like mind in addressing this area to make it a better reference source for use across across all the other Wikis, my time on WS so far has shown me that it's harder to get the ball rolling and accepted than you'd think it would be. ”

“ Where are we listing cases that got skipped for whatever reason and need a bot re-run again? (just un-tangled Gibbons v. Ogden w/a disambig) George Orwell III (talk) 09:47, 7 October 2010 (UTC) I would say under the section US Supreme Court Name List or start a new section. Isn't there a page just to list BenchBot issues like that though? Wabbit98 talk 8:33am (PST) , 7 October 2010 You can list pages needing attention in a new section on User:BenchBot/log. stephen (talk) 17:13, 7 October 2010 (UTC) Two Old Books As I understand djvu is used to retrieve text and pictures from images. ”

“ But it really did make the 2,500,000th edit. ResScholar (talk) 08:09, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Thank you for your work with BenchBot (talk • contribs) . I've given you a Barnstar, over at your en.wikipedia talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 18:25, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations Just saw the announcement from Kelly Fay. Neat! Enjoy. Do we get special favours? — billinghurst sDrewth 02:05, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! It's a great team to work with. No special favors, but I am pestering James to get a Wikisource shirt in the shop... ”

“ Hey! I am definitely interested in working on Perseus stuff! Any update on the status of the license? Cheers, stephen (talk) 07:03, 3 March 2011 (UTC) 2,500,000th English Wikisource edit! Dear Slaporte,
On March 12, 2011, 07:26 (UTC) your bot User:BenchBot added a series of new pages concerning the Supreme Court to Wikisource. It has been determined that one of those edits (probably Magruder vs. Supplee) was the 2,500,000 English Wikisource edit! In honor of this Wikisource milestone you have been awarded a print copy of Wikipedia which will be mailed to you immediately! ”