Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/RICH-2K/How to contribute

Improving the Illustrated Companion

Some of the ways articles in RICH-2K can be improved:

• Fix antiquated language: The original text dates from 1849. Adapt the text and bring its language to the 21st century.
• Update articles: Update the articles so that they present the current state of knowledge.
• Missing online editions: Find online editions of all texts referred to in the articles, both for Latin and Greek texts and for other material referenced in the Illustrated Companion. A list of references used in the articles from RICH-1849, together with some known online editions, is available on the project page Recommended editions. See that page's section on selection criteria.
• Articles without a Classed Index-category: Not all articles of RICH-1849 (and therefore of the starting set of articles of the Illustrated Companion) have a category assigned in the Classed Index of RICH-1849. For these the correct category (and only of these categories) should be found and added. For a list of these articles, see Category:RICH-2K/Classed Index-category missing. Remove this category after adding the Classed Index-category.
• Dead-end-articles: Some articles of RICH-1849 have no links to other articles, i.e. they are dead-ends. Add at least one link to another article of the Illustrated Companion. For a list of these articles, see Category:RICH-2K/Dead-end-pages. Remove this category after adding at least one link.
• Orphaned articles: Some articles are not referred to by other articles. For a list of these articles, see Category:RICH-2K/Orphaned articles. Find related articles and either link to these orphaned articles in the body of the text, or refer to them in a section == See also ==. That section should be a bulleted list, sorted either logically (for example, by subject matter), chronologically, or alphabetically (Wikipedia's Manual of Style). After doing so, remove the category.
• Articles with unresolved references: Find online versions for the quotes in the articles and create links to the respective passages in the above mentioned recommended references (see the section Adding references in the Project guidelines). For a list of articles with missing online references, see Category:RICH-2K/References missing or incomplete. Remove this category after resolving all references of the article.
• Articles without images: Add images. However, see above: RICH-2K is 'not' an image gallery. Still, some image are useful...
  • Many articles use drawings based on bas-reliefs from Trajan's Column. Wikimedia Commons has its category for the different plates: Category:Trajan's Column - Reliefs.
  • A useful Wikimedia Common-category for looking for images from the Roman world is Category:Categories of ancient Rome.
  • A useful Wikimedia Common-category for looking for images from the Greek world is Category:Categories of ancient Greece.
  • For a list of these articles, see Category:RICH-2K/Articles without images. Remove this category, if an image has been added, of if the article merely points to another article.
• Head over to Wikimedia Commons and make the categories of the RICH-1849-images more specific.
• Identify the real objects the drawings are based on, if these are not explicitly stated.
• Compare the text of the 1849-edition, which is the core of RICH-2K, with the text of the 1890-edition and note significant changes in a separate section of the article. Do not change the text of the 1849-edition given in the article.

Expanding the Illustrated Companion

• Add articles.
  • A good inspiration (especially for headwords, and here especially concerning about Greek topics) might be the Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines by Charles Daremberg and Edmond Saglio, an online-version of which is available at dagr.univ-tlse2.fr.