User:GavinRobinson

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Historian and palaeographer. I run Different Hand Ltd, doing manuscript transcription, XML markup, research assistance and related services. My PhD thesis and published work are on horses and cavalry in the English Civil War. I got into First World War research through tracing my great-grandad, who was in 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. I was a moderator at Your Archives and used to blog at Investigations of a Dog.

To do list

  • started US and French divisions, corps and armies: get tactical relationships from US OB
  • look for missing British infantry brigades in Becke and James
  • Australian CMF/PF units need linking to Army List
  • should AIF field artillery batteries be merged with parent brigades? List of relationships at Digger History.
  • VTC/VF battalions and regiments (need more AOs first)
  • TF name histories (need more ACIs first)
  • look into replacing {{RefLives}} with a more general template to represent a person, link to any canonical source for their identity, and possibly insert microformats
  • look into using APIs to extract batches of personal narratives and media from major collections
  • pals battalions need cat, redirects and name checks
  • see how many IWM Lives communities need to be added to unit pages
  • decide which tasks most need to be added to How you can help (too many/too complicated could be overwhelming)
  • possible changes to infoboxes:
    • moving refs into separate fields would make cleaner data, more future proof and maybe easier to use
    • fields and categories to track completeness of pages eg are names/relationships complete, with exact dates and citations?