On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
One of which is post the text after P3 rather than waiting to finish PP.
To which I pointed out that this would in many cases result in the posting of severely deficient texts. Formatting is important.
Don't know how to help the PP queue except I don't understand why you allow almost finished texts to be stuck moldering in the hard-drives of one PP'er so long. If a PP'er just can't get it done -- take it away and assign it to someone else. Doesn't matter how good or experienced a PP'er is if they just can't get it done.
Because sometimes it may be worth letting a text molder rather then preemptorially ripping it out of someone's hands and annoying the hell out of them.
Perhaps an automated or semi-automated tool for turning these simpler texts into HTML quickly?
Is guiguts not quick enough for you? This is a fairly simple tool problem.
Another obvious suggestion is that there are too many texts in the world to take them all on. Are the readers of PG really interested in "Annals of the Annual Proctology Meeting of 1847" ?
It's easy to come up with a rhetorically stupid title. But if you pulled a real title, then we could actually discuss the audience and why someone would upload that.
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 of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth" is thrilled that we have it, because the alternative was deciphering the blackletter originals and trying to figure out the lost parts yourself. Augustan Reprint Society works are a large class of works I've done where they have some scholarly interest, but the reader will only find facsimiles outside of PG. On the other hand is stuff like "1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century" by Henry Hartshorne. It is none of those things; it's just a fun work to read, even if that fun comes at its own expense. I don't think anyone who worked on it is the least bit unhappy about that. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.