User:MartinPoulter

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I'm involved in outreach for the Wikimedia projects, including Wikisource. I've previously done this in my role as Wikimedia Ambassador for the educational charity Jisc.

From April 2015 to March 2016 I was the Wikimedian In Residence at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. This involved paid editing on the Wikimedia projects (to share content from the Bodleian and elsewhere in Oxford University). I am also using this account for volunteer editing.

My "home" wiki is the English Wikipedia. My profile there lists my publications about Wikimedia.

My profile on Wikimedia UK lists the workshops and presentations I've given for or about Wikimedia.

Here's my Wikisource author profile.

Volunteer work

Awards for participation

	Proofread of the Month April 2015 Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

	Proofread of the Month May 2015 Journal of a Voyage to Greenland in 1821

	Proofread of the Month May 2015 (second work) Provincial Geographies of India: Burma

	Proofread of the Month July 2015 Chuang Tzŭ

	Proofread of the Month December 2015 Science Lectures: The Chemical History of a Candle Various Forces of Matter

	Proofread of the Month December 2016 True Stories of Girl Heroines

	Proofread of the Month February 2017 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

	Proofread of the Month September 2017 Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass

The feminism portal struck me as quite scant when I first saw it, so I have been adding some essential texts.

I'd like to expand Wikisource's collection of humour, especially of Victorian England, so these sources appeal:

• Everybody's Book of English wit and humour (1880) (transcription project)
• The Book of Humour, Wit & Wisdom: A Manual of Table-talk (1874 version), (1887 version), (1884 version) Interesting because it provides the text used in the Mechanical Comedian project

Other works I'm interested in:

• Mill's A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
• As a Bayesian, I'm also interested in Volume 53 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society which contains Thomas Bayes' monumental "An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances"

Texts done

• The Female Advocate, or an attempt to recover the rights of women from male usurpation, creating an author page for Mary Ann Radcliffe
• The feminead: or, Female genius, creating an author page for John Duncombe, also creating these pages for people mentioned by Duncombe: Author:Susanna Duncombe, Author:Frances Brooke, Author:John Philips (1676-1709), Author:Elizabeth Pennington
• Thoughts on the Education of Daughters by Mary Wollstonecraft
• Are Women People? by Alice Duer Miller
• Ode to Cynthia, creating an author page for Martha Peckard (praised by Duncombe)
• An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles, creating an author page for Mary Leapor
• Female Piety and Virtue, an Ode, creating an author page for Thomas Gibbons
• The Sentiments of an American Woman, creating an author page for Esther De Berdt Reed
• A Dissuasion from the Slave Trade, creating an author page for James Swan
• An exhortation & caution to Friends concerning buying or keeping of Negroes, creating an author page for George Keith
• Slavery, a poem by Hannah More
• On the constitutionality of a national bank by Alexander Hamilton
• A proclamation requiring all seamen and mariners to render themselves to Their Majesties service
• The Leisure Hour/1871/Number 1032/Mrs Mary Somerville
• Enfranchisement of women, creating an author page for Harriet Taylor Mill
• Uncivil Liberty, creating an author page for Ezra Hervey Heywood
• The Female Right to Literature, creating an author page for Thomas Seward
• An address to the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland creating an author page for Catharine Macaulay
• Women are people! by Alice Duer Miller
• An Account of a New Comet by Caroline Herschel
• An Account of the Discovery of a Comet by Caroline Herschel
• Remarks on the new Comet by William Herschel
• The Abolition of the White Slave Traffic by Clifford G. Roe
• Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things by Percy Shelley
• The Daemon of the World by Percy Shelley
• The Rainbow (Byron) by Augusta Ada Byron (Ada Lovelace)
• The Anti-Apartheid (United Nations Convention) Act 1981 by the Parliament of India
• A letter to Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M.P. on his proposed Bill for the Amendment of the Poor Laws by Thomas Malthus
• Pity the Poor Africans by William Cowper
• The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives creating an author profile for Sarah Chapone
• Ljubljana OER action plan 2017 by the Second World OER Congress
• Gujarát and the Gujarátis (I assembled in mainspace: others did proofreading)
• Description and Use of a New Celestial Planisphere, creating an author page for Author:Stephen Godwin
• A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities by Pierre-Simon Laplace

US Federal documents

• Investigator's guide to allegations of 'ritual' child abuse by Kenneth V. Lanning
• The Economics of Climate Change: a Primer by the Congressional Budget Office
• Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center
• Cyber Threats to Elections: a Lexicon by the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center
• Implications for US National Security of Anticipated Climate Change by the National Intelligence Council
• Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections by Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• The Cost of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change by the Council of Economic Advisers
• Climate Change: The Fiscal Risks Facing The Federal Government by the Office of Management and Budget

Interested in:

• https://science2017.globalchange.gov/downloads/
• File:Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community Unclassified 2014.pdf
• File:Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community Unclassified 2015.pdf
• Index:Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community Unclassified 2016.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Testimonies/SSCI%20Unclassified%20SFR%20-%20Final.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Testimonies/2018-ATA---Unclassified-SSCI.pdf
• Index:Impact of Climate Change in 2030 Russia (2009).pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/2009%20Conference%20Report_Russia_The%20Impact%20of%20Climate%20Change%20to%202030.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/climate2030_china.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/2009%20Conference%20Report_China_The%20Impact%20of%20Climate%20Change%20to%202030.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/climate2030_india.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/2009%20Conference%20Report_India_The%20Impact%20of%20Climate%20Change%20to%202030.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/climate2030_north_africa.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/2009%20Conference%20Report_North%20Africa_The%20Impact%20of%20Climate%20Change%20to%202030.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/climate2030_southeast_asia_pacific_islands.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/2010%20Conference%20Report_Southeast%20Asia_The%20Impact%20of%20Climate%20Change%20to%202030.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/climate2030_MexicoCaribCentralAm.pdf
• https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/2010%20Conference%20Report_MexicoCaribCentralAm_Climate%20Change%202030.pdf
• Climate Change and Agricultural Risk Management Into the 21st Century
• https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Trump%20Saudi%20Nuclear%20Report%20July%202019.pdf

UK Medical Heritage Library

• Scientific Method in Biology by Elizabeth Blackwell
• Observations on medical reform by John Kidd
• Remarks on some proposed alterations in the course of medical education at the University of Edinburgh by a Graduate of the Old School
• Author:Donald William Charles Hood
• The Thruston speech upon the progress of medicine 1869, creating an author page for Author:Arthur Ransome (1834-1922)
• Dr. Andrew Ure: a slight sketch
• Some Account of the Science of Botany creating an author page for Author:John Frost
• Index:Advice to Medical Students (1857) William Henry Fuller.djvu
• Author:Henry William Fuller

Texts from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

• A most surprizing large Warwickshire hog
• A most beautiful dog
• Musical dominoes. An original game of skill
• Rules of the Game of the Sacred Way
• Playbill of Covent Garden, Monday, November 22, 1784
• The Game of Deer Stalking

Texts from the McMaster Archive of the History of Economic Thought

• An Investigation of the Cause of the Present High Price of Provisions by Thomas Malthus
• Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws by Thomas Malthus
• The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn by Thomas Malthus
• An Inquiry Into the Nature and Progress of Rent by Thomas Malthus
• Author:Allyn Abbott Young
• Author:Knut Wicksell
• Author:Albert Conser Whitaker
• Author:Edward West
• Author:Amasa Walker
• Author:Ernst von Halle
• Author:Rice Vaughan
• Author:Jacob Vanderlint
• Author:Andrew Ure
• Author:George Unwin
• Author:Arnold Toynbee
• Author:Robert Ellis Thompson
• Author:Frank Hatch Streightoff
• Author:James Steuart
• Author:Werner Sombart
• Author:Henry Lowenfeld author of apparently the "first complete theory of international diversification"

Other additions

• Portal:Taoism
• Portal:University of Oxford
• Portal:Law of India
• Portal:Dance
• Portal:Climate change
• Author:Elizabeth Fry
• Author:Amelia Opie
• Author:Mary Hays
• Author:James Burgh (cited by Catharine Macaulay)
• Author:Thomas Wade (mentioned by Shelley)
• Author:Thomas Medwin (cousin and biographer of Shelley)
• Author:Jean-Baptiste Say (cited by Malthus)
• Author:Esther Copley
• Author:George Rose (cited by Malthus)
• Author:John Weyland (cited by Malthus)
• Author:Elizabeth Melville (transcriptions being created by a project at the National Library of Scotland)
• Author:Lawson Whalley
• Author:Robert Fergusson (mentioned by Robert Louis Stevenson and an influence on Robert Burns)
• Author:Abraham Woodhead discovered via Wikidata query for authors in Project Gutenberg but not Wikisource
• Author:Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe
• Author:Anne Killigrew
• Author:John Oldmixon
• Author:Susanna Centlivre
• Author:William Playfair
• Author:Abigail Adams
• Author:Elizabeth Elstob
• Author:Mary Prince
• Author:David Walker
• Author:Horace Waller
• Author:Venture Smith
• Author:Sarah Kemble Knight
• Author:Henry Robert Plomer
• Author:Harry Gidney Aldis
• Author:William Wollaston
• Author:Alexander Brome
• Author:Phineas Fletcher
• Author:George Gilpin
• Author:Thomas Hall
• Author:Christopher Love
• Author:Aston Cockayne
• Author:Jöns Jacob Berzelius
• Author:Thomas Blount
• Author:Nathaniel Hodges
• Author:Abraham de Moivre
• Author:George Sale
• Wiki Ways: a Wikimedia poem creating an author page for Matt Harvey
• Manifold Wonder: a Wikimedia poem creating an author page for Francesca Beard
• Author:Wilson Armistead
• Started transcription of Heroines of Freethought (transcription project), creating a profile for author Author:Sara A. Underwood and for biographical subjects Margaret Chappellsmith and Emma Martin

Outreach

Example: a simplified illustration of a workflow for using Internet Archive books across Wikimedia:

Link to get the full rendered HTML version of a text from the Wikisource API:
http://en.wikisource.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text&format=json&utf8=1&disabletoc=true&disableeditsection=true&page=The_Wrongs_of_Woman,_or_Maria

Most consulted help pages

• Help:Formatting conventions
• Help:Templates
• Help:Table
• Works without scans
• Finishing touches : Remember also {{DEFAULTSORT:}} for titles with an article
• Acceptable wikilinks
• Template:Wikidata link

Linking to Wikisource from Wikipedia

• w:Template:Wikisource
• w:Template:Wikisource_author
• w:Template:Wikisourcehas

Linking to Wikisource from Commons

• commons:Template:TransWikisource (but better to use the link internal to the Book template)