1. What is the approximate success rate & timetable for getting missing pages for books in DP? (I.e., how many books are stalled for missing pages, and how many have had their pages found/restored, and how long after proofreading was complete did this happen?)
My experience as a DP projet manager is that if I simply put a page request up for grabs, I might get a bite, and I might not; I feel the half-life of these "passive" requests might be measured in months. If I am more proactive, and look through library catalogs to identify a library that claims to have the book I need a page from, and then ask a fellow DP-er who might have access to that library, I get better results. My experience is that if I ask two or three people, at least one of them will be willing and able to make the scan at their convenience, and they usually find it convenient to do so within a week or three. So, if a person is willing to put the legwork into locating the book, they will probably get results. Not quickly, but not glacially slowly, either.
2. I'm aware there are a sizeable number of books at DP that have completed proofreading, yet are not yet uploaded to the PG servers. What proportion is awaiting missing pages, versus other types of delays.
Who knows? Other issues that hold books up are a small fraction of illegible text, needing to locate a classicist or speaker of a foreign language, and the project being Just Plain Hard (like doing html for a project with over 300 images). -- RS