Imran Ghory 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
It's already been done without a wiki see, http://charlz.dns2go.com/gutenberg/
Actually, I have done this _with_ the wiki-like component, for the Scandinavian e-text project that I run, "Project Runeberg". If you want to help me proofread the Swedish translation of Poe's "The Raven", you don't need to know Swedish, you only have to visit http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/rydbdikt/0060.html and scroll down til you see the OCR text below the facsimile image.
I'm afraid you'll get an error when you try to "save" (I should fix this bug soon), but you should get the idea. There's so much that can be done by borrowing ideas from wiki into other projects. Note that this implementation is still a prototype, and should be developed further and bugfixed before it is launched publicly.
There's even a "recent changes" with diffs and all on http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/rc.pike