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.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.
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 how would you have access to templates, and components like that from off-line?
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.
Also we generally cannot download the images separately as that is usually part of the later clean-up where people have the technical skills.
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.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.