On 27 January 2012 17:59, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:43:17PM +0000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
On 27 January 2012 07:58, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
A third (new) type would be those files that are, in some way, modified, derived, or produced by other people and their tools. Not necessarily WWers or the original producers/submitters. In a word, crowdsourcing. Or community editing. Or version control. Or whatever you want to call it: the point would be that ANYONE with desire and some basic capability could make changes to existing files, or provide derivative files.
Like on Wikisource? http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Desk-Book_of_Errors_in_English.djvu
Wouldn't that be more of a replacement for the proofreading/editing chain? One main difference from what I described is that I'm focused on entire books, which have already been proofread and formatted. Wikisource seems to be focused on a page at a time.
No, that's just the proofreading view. If you click the link beside 'Title', it'll give you the regular view. Here's a completed work: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Picturesque_New_Guinea.djvu The corresponding title: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Picturesque_New_Guinea
Using Wikisource as an alternate pathway to DP and the type of tool set provided there would be a good option for some contributors. I don't know that I've seen items get into the PG collection from that direction.
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