Very interesting. It appears that Wikicommons has implemented a more

refined publicly accessible text proofing process, and at least one of

PG's texts is part of their subject corpus.

Take, for example, PG #32607; particularly the article about diazo compounds.

Notice the embedded images; for example

Here are two versions of the same text on eb.tbicl.org.

First, a clone of the PG ebook:

and then after processing it into an article:

As we have discussed previously, I have added to the page numbers by

making them linkable to the page image on TIA.

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Here is the same article at Wikisource.

You can see that the cropping in the embedded image is identical to PG's.

Further, they have included a linkable page number (including an additional one at the

heginning of the article.) But it doesn't link the same place. Instead it links to

which is their own editing interface for that page.

So there it is. The public can proof a text derived almost directly from PG,

using an interface that includes the page image and text text editor for

matching.

(Note to self: the image they use is from a source I wasn't aware of and the

using a well-crafted page url template.)

One might choose to repudiate the term "crowdsourcing", but it would be

just semantics at that point.