[Wikipedia-l] Buying public domain books

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sat Dec 27 01:48:30 UTC 2003


Peter Jaros wrote:

>> 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.

Thinking of Wikisource where the material could be added in relatively 
large chunks, I would be ashamed of contributing unproofed ocr 
gibberish. :-)

Ec




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