On Dec 26, 2003, at 6:21 AM, Imran Ghory wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Cost may not be the problem with this proposal. Scanning and proofreading the OCR results is a long and tedious job that may not suit everybody's temperament.
Have you seen www.pgdp.net, it's a PG project that makes proofreading easier by distributing the process across many people.
Have you seen www.wikipedia.org, it's a project that makes huge information gathering and processing easier by distributing the process across many people. ;)
Sorry, I really don't mean that to be flippant. Just pointing out that we could probably handle the proofreading within the Wikimedia network.
Peter
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