David A. Desrosiers said: > What are everyone's feelings about this? Should we start to > converge skills and contributor time to move some of this forward, in a > more-structured fashion? I see a lot of wheels being reinvented over and > over again with Plucker.
This is true, and would most likely be true with most project I take on as my free time is sporatic at best. for that alone I am stepping away from even attempting Wikipedia. I just dont have the time to do anything of quality. > 3.) Project Gutenberg > > Many of us have been tinkering with converting the entire > Project Gutenberg collection to Plucker format, including > adding some nice "cover art" for each book, so they look > professional, polished, and commercial. > > The problem is that there are 13,516 separate works, as I > type this email, and a good majority of them are formatted > slightly differently, based on the auditor doing the > edits. > > I've made some good progress with some Perl code to rewrap > and reflow the text, add paragraph markers where they make > sense, add italics around "quoted material", and so on, > but... I'm only one person, and my time is dwindling > rapidly, now that I have a daughter to take care of. > > Is anyone interested in this venture? The goal is that ALL > of Project Gutenberg, converted to Plucker format, will be > available from the Plucker website, in a searchable, > categorized format. > This is a project I'd like to see succeed, but I think the method will breed too much 'extra' work. Creating a static archive will lead to out of sync work and necessary housekeeping to keep it in sync. I see that to be a job that would be after the real work of writing a converter and would eventually not get the attention or dilligence it would require. My take on it would be a bit different. I would write the converter as expected, but write it to yank live copies from the Project Gutenberg archive. The only work after that would be to programicly keep their index in sync with something on the Plkr site. I'd like to discuss how you have made your conversions in the code and maybe offer anything from my experience of converting/automating stuff like this. From there I can determine if there is anything I can add to the mix. -- -- Wesley Mason -- TDPSoft.net <!-- Club88 --> _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
