[Wikipedia-l] Re: Distributed Proofreaders

[Daniel Lee Mayer]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 12:02 pm, Imran wrote:
> > IMHO such a project *could* work with the wiki system, especially for
> > OCRed pages that need manual work. This could be done by a community
> > rather than by a single person, especially if, e.g., a book is broken
> > into chapters taht can be edited seperately.
>
> It's already been done without a wiki see,
>
> http://charlz.dns2go.com/gutenberg/
>
> Imran

What an excellent project! If we do decide to implement some kind of 
protected source setup, we should encourage wikipedians to go to that website 
first for historical documents. Although there may be some copyright 
concerns.....

maveric