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

Improving RICH-2K

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

• Not all articles of RICH-1849 (and therefore of the starting set of articles of RICH-2K) 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.
• Some articles of RICH-1849 have no links to other articles. Add at least one link to another RICH-2K-article.
• 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.
  • The project will include a page, where the recommended references will be collected.
• Find online versions for the quotes in the articles and create links to the respective passages in the above mentioned recommended references.
  • Note: the Perseus Digital Library (search engine expression perseus tufts edu) is the recommended collection of Latin and Greek texts.
  • The list of quotes will be collected in a separate section of the respective article.
• 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.
• 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 (see Archive.org, search expression dictionaryofroma00richuoft) 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 RICH

• 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.