On en.ws, we do need to increase the percentage of texts with page scans. Any suggestions on how to achieve this?
-- John
The biggest stumbling block at en.WS is that we already had so many texts before the Page: feature. Many of the most commonly available files already exist under a seperate edition. I started to do some Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet) for example. I found a nice djvu file (my preference for working with) and uploaded to Commons. Soon I realized the text was completely different. I started adding it as a seperate title but it is abandoned for the momoment. The original idea of being able to check the endless IP revisions to Shakespeare was my primary motivation and it turned out to be worthless for that.
So if we really want to prioritize scans, on en.WS we are naturally going to end up overwriting existing texts. Which is not necessarily a problem so long as we go about it carefully. Both in regard to peoples attachment to past work and to ensure we are not replacing texts with inferior editions or replacing highly proofed text with OCR.
The path of least resistance, which I always favor, would be to start with a quality collection of files of promenant texts. I like .djvu files because you do not need to upload individual pages to Commons. Does anyone have any suggestions about an existing collection of scans available that we might want to start with?
Birgitte SB
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