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WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica…

Automated conversion script - Gutenberg to Wikisource format To anyone who has used or would like to use the already-proofed text version of the EB1911 at Gutenberg.org (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=title&go=Go&query=britannica) which has nearly all the articles from "Andros" to "Mecklenberg", I've been working on an automated script to convert HTML to Wikisource format e.g. italic text to ''italic text'' as well as the more complex "style=" statements, author initials etc. are handled.
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WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica…

Footnotes are not handled, these have to be done manually. Cases where a use of a template like "smallcaps" etc. spans multiple lines will have to corrected manually (you can end up with a on the line following) Diagrams have to be added manually (but the caption formatting is handled) It's not 100% perfect, but I've been using it recently and it's been a great help. I have to add italics manually to variables to most maths articles, as the Gutenberg version doesn't usually include these. As always, check with "Show changes" to see what has been changed before saving.
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WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica…

Half a dozen left At the moment there are last half a dozen Wikipedia pages that access EB1911 articles that have yet to be placed on Wikisource (over 20,000 done) :
If anyone is thinking of proofread some pages please consider doing one of these. They will be time consuming as they are not strait forwards (apart from "Solomon, Psalms of" which needs someone who can proofread the Hewbrew text) .
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