Talk:VOC Journal

How far back should the list of publication go ? Champagne 14:47, 23 October 2006 (MDT)

Well, I think ideally all of the VOCJs would be listed. It would probably be a lot of work to create TOCs and add all of them to the index though. Scott Webster 16:41, 23 October 2006 (MDT)

I got the template (not Template:-----) down on my Talk section. We just need to copy the code and put the information for each VOC Journal in it. The Index part would be by far the longest thing to do. Champagne 17:03, 23 October 2006 (MDT)

Well, even just typing out the table of contents into the template will take quite some time. I think there are 36 or so volumes to go, and even if you can do it really fast (say 15 minutes each?) it would take 9 hours of work. Scott Webster 17:34, 23 October 2006 (MDT)

Evan was talking about making it a workhike last week. I'll have to see if that as progressed any further... It would definitely cut-down on the amount of time required for completion. Champagne 18:11, 23 October 2006 (MDT)

On the subject of indexing, make sure to add the volume and page number to the master index page VOCJ_index so that articles can be looked up without scanning through all the tables of contents. I've noticed that for the indexing work that is in progress that this has not been done. I wonder if there might be an automated way to do this similar to the Category system. It may in fact be good enough to just add the text to the "index" column in the TOC since the entire wiki is searchable. Scott Nelson