[Mediawiki-l] Distributed proofreading of scanned books possible in MW ?

[Harald Groven]

A Project Gutenberg support group runs a wiki system where
proofreaders can fix OCR text from scans. This speeds up the
digitization process of public domain books since image files of the
book pages can be uploaded and published alongside the text itself.

An example of how it looks like can be found on PG's Nordic sister
project Project Runeberg:

http://runeberg.org/pictswed/0257.html

Could these features be included in MW? What's needed is:
* Batch uploading image files while OCR read text will be included in
the page body.
* A split screen where the image can be viewed in a column on the left
while the text may be edited on the right hand side.
* A check box where the page can be flagged as "proofread"

This feature could be really useful, especially in Wikisource.



Links
http://www.pgdp.net/c/ Distributed Proofreaders

Sourceforge page for the wiki web application
http://dproofreaders.sourceforge.net/

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Harald Groven
University of Tromsø
web: www.groven.no/harald