On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Jim Adcock wrote:
really important to push them out the door. I don't think DP has changed anything else so what I think they have done is simply reduced the rate of books accepted into the system in the first place, increasing the (implied) queue of books digitized but not begun proofreading.
On the contrary, I'm aware of a decent amount of change at DP over a last few years. I've seen a more concerted effort to encourage users to work in higher rounds, and give them help to do so. I've seen increased flexibility in having projects repeat and skip rounds. If you look back far enough P2 was a problem that focused on, and then brought into a pretty good balance. At that point P3 seemed an insurmountable problem with a huge backlog. Then the efforts above brought that backlog down sooner than anyone expected. I gather the focus now is on F2 and PP. Of course it is not a perfect system, it never was, and never will be. There is still lots of room for improvement. Also, it is always changing, so it can be hard to get a grasp on just what the currant state of affairs is. Sometimes just the numbers don't tell the whole story. --Andrew