A little more information. That same project (which is 232 pages, about 1/8 of one volume out of 29 volumes.) It was being P3 proofread from April to November of 2007 (about 7 months). Then it sat in queues with no one working on it from Nov. 2007 to Sept. 2009 (almost two years) except for a brief spell (3 months) when it was in F1. And that was pretty speedy. A new project (such as I'm preparing now, which will be 300+ pages,) will not be quite so fortunate, because now the queues are much longer; and more significantly, there will be many more EB volumes ahead of it when it gets to each queue. So I'd be prepared to spend some time proofing at least (if you don't prefer formatting and PP) so help it along in those brief windows of opportunity (roughly 9-12 months) when it's available to anyone at all. (But given well-established trends, it will probably be much longer.) Fortunately, you'll have lots of time to scan and OCR each project. In fact, I bet you'll be so fortunate as to have a new generation of scanning technology available every couple of projects or so. It may easily take longer to proof, format, and publish the ebook than it took for the original - an acknowledged epic in itself. For sure, it could be re-typeset in a small fraction of the time. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Robert Cicconetti <grythumn@gmail.com>wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:04 PM, don kretz <dakretz@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's a point of reference for you. The current Encyclopædia Britannica project in F2 has been there since September. Number of pages: 232 Pages remaining: 24 Pages I've done: 203 Pages other people have done: 5 Some rounds get cherry-picked pretty badly; and OED is not a cherry. Stay away from buses.
I might be willing to do a parallel F1 / merge, and automated markup check for F2 skip if I don't have to find a PP in advance.
Let me be blunt... I'm easily distracted; doing this kind of markup would drive me nuts quickly and result in orphaned projects. I'll prep the images, run OCR, answer questions, write the code to do the automated checks. But I don't PP or format.
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