Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:54:11 -0800

Similar request, Charles.
 
In the next few months we will be uploading quite a few articles and book reviews onto cy Wikisource, As yet, no templates are in place for such delicacies as Proofreading etc. Any help would be appreciated by our small community.
 
Thanks
 
Robin Owain
 
 
On 08 November 2013 at 11:42 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

On 8 November 2013 11:33, Richard Nevell <richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk>wrote:

But, returning to the point of this thread: proofreading Wikisource. If there is an appetite to take part, how would it be best organised? Checking for typos and using a spellchecker seems like the simplest approach, would it be one which results in a significant impact?
 
As a start, if WMUK thinks it would be putting some staff time towards this competition, the best thing might be to start a thread at
 
 
just saying you are considering backing it. 
 
English Wikisource runs a "Proofread of the Month" and one model would be to adapt that to the needs of the competition ("all must have prizes" in PoTM, namely a template on your userpage). So there could be a definite bunch of works selected, where people proofread and validate them page by page.  
 
Charles

  
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