To which I pointed out that this would in many cases result in the posting of severely deficient texts. Formatting is important.
Because sometimes it may be worth letting a text molder rather then
OK, but I can also point to texts that were almost "good to go" before they went into DP, only to molder indefinitely there. Is there some way to make a decision on this one way or another. How about letting the PM make the decision whether or not to post a "preliminary version" to PG? preemptorially ripping it out of someone's hands and annoying the hell out of them. OK, but how and when do you decide that the PP has actually moved on in life and is not really willing to finish up the book to which others have in good faith contributed their blood sweat and tears in the hopes of getting an honest to god book? Not to mention the possibility of a PP not working in good faith?
Is guiguts not quick enough for you? This is a fairly simple tool problem.
It's easy to come up with a rhetorically stupid title. But if you
Tried it previously and didn't find any value in it. I will take a look at it again. pulled a real title, then we could actually discuss the audience and why someone would upload that. Pick any title active in the rounds right now. Based on the best statistics I can find on PG usage, which is actually from IA, the most popular books from PG get read literally 100,000 times more often than the least read books. Now, it is hard to find a book that is going to be that popular. But it is easy to find a good book which will get read literally 40x more often than the books in DP right now, as well as being at least several times faster and a easier to create.
Is there any way to more actively promote the acquisition and prioritizing of texts that are generally recognized as being "better than average" aka "famous" or at least "well known"?
That presumes that that should be our goal. Some of the works I'm proudest of are works where the PG edition is the best in the world. Sure, more people may read the Canterbury Tales, but every who reads our edition of Stephen Hawes's "A Joyful Meditation....
Is it possible to split the queues and the efforts into "esoterica" vs. "books that will be actively read?" Right now the "books that will be actively read" I am afraid are stuck in the queue behind "books that no one is actually willing to work on." I went there recently to try to help and it looked like "the powers that be" were trying to force through books that really no one wants to work on -- books that were really hard and not very interesting even to the people who volunteer their time to DP. You can't force people to work on things they don't want to work on. Either they work on texts that they want to work on, or if DP is not willing to present any of those, they they go on with their lives, or maybe, like in my case, they "route around damage" and work on books outside of DP. The problem is NOT that there is "esoterica" vs. "books that will be actively read" -- the problem is that the "esoterica" takes so much time and effort compared to "books that will be actively read" that "esoterica" ends up swamping the other categories. Are you really saving a book if you pickle it for posterity without it getting read? Isn't that like locking up a ballerina's shoes in order to preserve ballet? Or locking up an artists paint and brushes in order to preserve art? To my taste books exist while they are being read. Otherwise they fail to exist -- beyond little magnetic domains stuck somewhere on the internet. A simple answer would be to put in separate queues for the differing levels of difficulty and/or categories of books. Then people who want to work on esoterica can do so without impacting people who don't.