Comments from a Whitewasher: Do not use the WWers as experimental subjects. We're busy, too. If genuine, textual, errors are found, send a report to PG's errata system, and it'll be dealt with. If there are lots of textual errors, contact the WWers for advice first--it's possible you might be asked to submit a complete corrected fileset, which we'll use to replace the existing files, which would be archived. Al
-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Jeroen Hellingman Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 8:07 AM To: James Adcock Cc: 'Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion' Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] procedures for contributions, forum for questions and ideas
Lets experiment. You find a book with a mistake, fix that mistake, and I will ask the PG white-washers to update it.
Note that any correction to mistakes should be either obvious or attested by a printed version, and that you need a clearance for any version your working with for more than trivial information.
Formatting issues can be matters of taste, and in particular with copyrighted submissions, you will find pretty bad formatting, which the white-washers might be more reluctant to upgrade.
Don't expect people to start fixing a book just because you point out the formatting is horrible; we know there are horrible books in their, but we are also busy.
Updated books are posted almost every day. Just follow the posted list.
Also, nothing prevents you from picking up a terribly wrong book, and improving it, then resubmit it to PG, with some explanation what you've done.
This is simply not true. Tons of people have pointed out
problems with specific books over the years, asked PG how they can submit fixes, and have been told that they are not allowed to do so. The "work around" has been to find a version of that book under a different edition, and then submit a "new book" based on
On 2012-09-20 15:31, James Adcock wrote: formatting that edition,
but then under PG's webmaster's policy of continuing to promote the oldie-moldie versions of books, the customers continue to download the old defective versions.
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