[Wikipedia-l] Re: Distributed Proofreaders

[Ian]

They don't appear to have a historical theme.

I agree, though, it looks like a execellent project, but that it is
something we don't need to replicate.

Ian Monroe
http://ian.webhop.org

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Daniel Lee Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> On Thursday 18 April 2002 12:02 pm, Imran 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
> > > rather than by a single person, especially if, e.g., a book is broken
> > > into chapters taht can be edited seperately.
> >
> > It's already been done without a wiki see,
> >
> > http://charlz.dns2go.com/gutenberg/
> >
> > Imran
> 
> What an excellent project! If we do decide to implement some kind of 
> protected source setup, we should encourage wikipedians to go to that website 
> first for historical documents. Although there may be some copyright 
> concerns.....
> 
> maveric