Le 24/03/2018 à 16:22, billinghurst a écrit :
Though that would defeat the purpose of online
proofreading with
account verification. Some of the true value of our online process is
that contribution builds a level of trust and knowledge and that is
reflected in both our patrolling and the allocation of autopatrolled
status.
How providing tools to make batch work offline would interfere in anyway
with that? Once the work is done, it can be uploaded to Wikisource with
whichever account the user want.
Actually, to my mind, the main benefit of the online aspect is the peer
to peer production model. Also there is no need of a central node
carrying accounts to take into account the trust given to a particular
contributor. There is digital signature technologies such as gpg for
example. Having a central node with a web interface just makes things
easier for most users, it doesn't improve the trustability of the
environment. On the contrary, with a single point of failure, we
actually rely on a weaker solution on this regard.
Also how would you have access to templates, and
components like that
from off-line?
Well, that just show how innefecient are this tools to continue to
contribute while being offline. It's allways possible to install
Mediawiki and download required templates, but currently this process
seems way to complicated, doesn't it.
Also we generally cannot download the images separately as that is
usually part of the later clean-up where people have the technical skills.
I'm
afraid the term "image" misguided your answer. It's seems you
interpreted that as picture elements from files, while I was talking
about this files themselves.
So yes, there is the capacity to have the text and
proofread the text,
that actual checking the text against the image is not the sole
component of proofreading, and further it would not be at all helpful
for validation.
There is nothing magic about working directly in a browser. People
do
download and upload all the required material anyway, but on a page per
page base. The result is just as valid as it is done when transactions
are operated on a file repository level.
Cheers