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===The Newsletters Themselves=== | ===The Newsletters Themselves=== | ||
There are a number of ways that the actual content of the newsletter can be made part of LPedia. For a general discussion of digitizing and uploading hardcopy documents, see [[Contributing Historical Documents]]. | There are a number of ways that the actual content of the newsletter can be made part of LPedia. For a general discussion of digitizing and uploading hardcopy documents, see [[LPedia:Contributing Historical Documents|Contributing Historical Documents]]. | ||
But before you do that, check to see if some or all of the articles are already online somewhere else. Some LP groups already make a practice of posting PDFs of their newsletters on their own site. This is more likely to be the case for recent issues, but it's worth checking before doing a lot of extra work. If the content is already online, you can either create links to each issue there or download it from there and then post a copy to LPedia. | But before you do that, check to see if some or all of the articles are already online somewhere else. Some LP groups already make a practice of posting PDFs of their newsletters on their own site. This is more likely to be the case for recent issues, but it's worth checking before doing a lot of extra work. If the content is already online, you can either create links to each issue there or download it from there and then post a copy to LPedia. | ||