At 06:23 PM 4/21/2005 -0400, you wrote:
On Thursday 21 April 2005 02:47 pm, Michael Hart wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Carlo Traverso wrote:
It is much better if the incomplete projects remain at DP: when pages are found, DP updates both the text and the images, so that, when these will be made available, these will be complete too.
Is there any reason these projects cannot be kept at DP as suggested and also still shared with the world?
Hi. This is only an idea, so if it's not practical, my apologies and please disregard. Why not start a subproject either within PG or DP that could still post the books as long as it is clearly understood that they are not official PG books and have x pages missing? Maybe the PGCC could have such a collection. This way people could still see the books in a transitional statt of completeness while they would not become a part of the PG archive. To take this a step further, they wouldn't be assigned PG ebook numbers and maybe the PGWW people won't even have to be involved, since the books are in a transitional state anyway. I guess it would be similar to the second round of proofreading in DP, the book still has errors, missing pages, etc but is available for all to see. The wanted requests could still be posted to the main PG site and newsletter in hopes that volunteers will find such missing pages more quickly. Since there would still need to be a way to keep track of these substandard books, give them the DP project numbers or no numbers at all. They would still stay within DP, they would just be released earlier with notes that x pages are missing, x more proofing needs to be done, etc. Again, maybe PGCC would be best for this so it's not directly associated with the PG archive.