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December 2019

Sunday 28

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Darkiñung

Revisiting the °Darkinung / Darkinjung / Darkinyung / Darkinyung language / Darkinung people issue.

Found an academic thesis that may well be the most definitive source: Ford, Geoffrey Eric (2010). Darkiñung Recognition: An Analysis of the Historiography for the Aborigines from the Hawkesbury-Hunter Ranges to the Northwest of Sydney: [commonly written with English characters as 'Darkinung', Darkinyung or Darkinjung]. University of Sydney..

According to Ford, Darkiñung country extended as far south as Eastern Creek near Blacks Town, and that many peope now identifed as 'Darug' ancestry actually have Darkiñung ancestors.

See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia and Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Confirmed language names at AIATSIS. I was inclined to follow Ford in spelling it Darkiñung, but will defer to Kwami's suggestion that we use AIATSIS spelling Darkinyung.

I want to put this on one of the articles' talk pages, but not sure which one:

• Darkinung redirects to Darkinung people (Kwami Feb 2019), prev. to Darkinjung since 2006.
• Darkinjung used to be about the people, was changed in 2011 by an IP-editor to be about the land council for a different geographical area. It has the edit history for both.
• Darkinyung is the AIATSIS spelling. It redirects to Darkinjung language, not people. Was pointed to Darkinyung language, but a bot removed the double redirect.
• Darkiñung redirects to Darkinjung.
• Darkinung language, Darkinyung language, and Darkiñung language all redirect to Darkinjung language, and all have no changes since creation in 2006.
• Darkinjung people redirects to Darkinjung, which is now about the land council; Darkinung people is a separate stub, created 2017; Darkinyung people and Darkiñung people pages don't exist.
• Darkinjung Land Council doesn't yet exist.
• Special:PrefixIndex/Darkin also reveals Darkinjang, Darkinjang language, Darkinoong, Darkinoong language. All redirects, unchanged since 2006.

Wednesday 24

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Recent activity

• Proofreading and creating pages for The Sikh Religion on Wikisource, though I'm starting to find that work tedious. vol I & vol II.
• Reading / verifying The Three Colonies of Australia on Wikisource. Have started a chapter list.
• User:Pelagic/Incubator/Essay – Why I still use desktop view instead of mobile
• Torres Strait; the voyage of commander Don Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, captain Don Luis Baez de Torres, and captain Don Diego de Prado y Tovar, in which were discovered Tamaco in the Duff Islands and Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides / Vanuatu. After separating at Espírito Santo, Torres and Prado continued on to explore the south coast of New Guinea and from there proceeded through the Moluccas north to Manila. We have accounts by Torres, Prado, and Queirós, with translations online. There seems to be a history of Spanish–Portuguese argy-bargy on these articles. Sources and further reading:
  • Letter written by Torres in Manila to King Philip, dated 12 July 1607. Dalrymple's translation was first published in Burney's Discoveries in the South Sea, Part II (1806) pp. 467–478 (appendix no. 1 to volume the second) scan at Internet Archive. The translation was reproduced by later authors, such as: Major (1859) pp. 31–42 scan at Google Books; Collingridge (1895) Discovery of Australia, chapter 39 text at Project Gutenberg Australia.
  • Account of Diego de Prado. Catalogue record at SLNSW, with digitised copy of manuscript and translation.
  • Burney (ibid., p. 275 et seq.) has a chapter (XVII) on de Quiros' voyage where he brings together information from the documents of Quiros, Torres, Torquemada, and Aris.
  • Aside: The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea (1906) is an abridged version of Collingridge's 1895 book, cited in some of the WP articles. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0501051h.html
• Have drawn on the above to expand the history section of Espiritu Santo Island.
• Ignoring my Echo notifications. ;-)

Old tabs

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility#Indentation including mention of {{in5}} "universal templates".
• s:Wikisource:Scriptorium
• Commons/Wikisource discussion of djvu and pdf. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/369887592
• Was trying to improve Kabaddi, which appeared on the main page or as a random page, with reference to Kabaddi in India, Pro Kabaddi League, etc.
• Rupee, History of the Rupee, etc.
• Short descriptions. Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Short descriptions, Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 145#RfC: Populating article descriptions magic word