Mailing List Archive: Re: Proofread Page (was: Social networking (was: Analysis of lists statistics: community in decline)

--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Milos Rancic <millosh@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm
> >
> http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage_Statistics
>
> It seems that all Wikisources together had begun decrease
> at the
> beginning of 2008. However, according to the second link,
> it seem that
> they stays well. (BTW, I would like to see a short
> explanation of the
> significance of ProofreadPage extension and pages which
> used them.)

The proofread page extension allows a collaboration space for proofreading a text side by side with an image of each page from djvu file on Commons[1] This single page of text is then transcluded into the main area of the project in more readable/printable increments[2][3] The drawback is that the location readers use does not contain the editable text, but the benefits of simplifying collaborative proofreading off the same copy and the straightforward tracking of proofreading progress [4] are worth the tradeoff.

Birgitte SB

[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Aristotelous_peri_psuxes.djvu/43
[2] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Vital_Principle/Book_1/Chapter_3
[3] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Vital_Principle/Whole_text
[4] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Aristotelous_peri_psuxes.djvu

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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The proofread page extension allows a collaboration space for proofreading a text side by side with an image of each page from djvu file on Commons[1] This single page of text is then transcluded into the main area of the project in more readable/printable increments[2][3] The drawback is that the location readers use does not contain the editable text, but the benefits of simplifying collaborative proofreading off the same copy and the straightforward tracking of proofreading progress [4] are worth the tradeoff.

In other words, this is a significant measure for activity on
Wikisources. Good to hear it!

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