Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Distributed indexing/Cyclopaedia

This project may no longer be necessary, as it appears that most of the work has already been done elsewhere.

The goal of this subproject is to create an editable index to Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1728), which can then be used in the Missing articles project to determine missing articles/redirects/content. See Cyclopaedia scans

Suggestions

• The simplest means for producing this index is for the user to set up two windows, side-by-side, one for the scans, and one for a text editor in which to type the entry titles.
• You can change the size of a scan by clicking on the different-sized white boxes on the left.
• You can get rid of the surrounding boarders on a page by clicking on the printable version link.
• You can reach the next page of the printable version by simply incrementing the URL, with a bookmarklet, for example.

Guidelines

• To make this project as easy as possible for those involved, this initial list will simply be a block of unformatted words. The only requirement is that the user must hit Enter at the end of each word, so that each entry is separated when viewing this list in Edit mode. They do not need to be separated by blank lines.
• Alternate terms/spellings within a single entry should generally be included in the list as well, each on a separate line. Alternate definitions for the same word don't need to be indicated in the list at this point.
  • Simply write each unique word/term once, each on its own line.
  • For example, within the definition of "Animated", there is a separate entry for "Animated mercury". Both of these should be included in the list, on separate lines.
  • Note: Italicized words immediately following an entry title are not alternate spellings or part of the title, and should be ignored.
• The curly ƒ is an s. See long s.

• Volume 1 (4 of 52 sections done)
• Volume 2 (0 of 58 sections done)