User:Pelagic/sandbox/j/2019/12/24

Wednesday 24 & Thursday 25 December 2019.

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