Hi WMUK folks,

I can maybe add a little useful information here. WMDE has had a special budget for German Wikisource since 2007. It's been (to my knowledge) exclusively used for digitization of individual documents. The budget has not been used up in any year since it was creatd.

Michail Jungierek, one of our board members, is also highly active in that project and has been managing that particular budget since day one. If you want to know more about his experiences with it, please feel free to contact him directly. I've put him on CC.

Best regards,

Sebastian Moleski
President
Wikimedia Deutschland

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Harry Burt <harryaburt@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
<snip>
Further, experience at Wikisource suggests that
proofreading is the bottleneck, rather than scanning.
</snip>

Other items in this interesting discussion notwithstanding, does anyone know the WikiSource position on paying for proofreading? en.wp is against paid editing, but almost entirely on bias grounds, and there's no room for bias here: either a proofreading is right or it's wrong.
 
One might reasonably worry about the impact on the community of having an amount of work paid for, but, on the flipside this is donkey work and I daresay the going rates would be very low (I base this on having flicked through prices on AMmazon's Mechanical Turk project).
 
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Harry (User:Jarry1250)

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