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Wikisource (at least the English one) has a slightly different take on it in that they (now) generally expect proofreading to proceed according to a PDF or DjVu

Wikisource (at least the English one) has a slightly different take on it in that they (now) generally expect proofreading to proceed according to a PDF or DjVu scan of a specific original edition (and you can have multiple editions). There's a page-by-page proofreading interface. Project Gutenberg world are usually non-specific editions and might be a mish-mash or contain editorial fix-ups. Projects like Distributed Proofreaders also operate on a top-down basis where there's a project manager for each book. On Wikisource, you can just get stuck in where you like. No one technically "owns" anything. The Monthly Challenge [1] is quite a fun new innovation where there's a bit more community activity, as a lot of people like to plug away on their own projects, which some people think is a bit boring. [1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Community_collaboration/Monthly_Challenge https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Community_collabor...

zozbot234 5y ago
The "ownership" model on DP means that they're left with a huge backlog of fully-proofread drafts stuck in the "post-processing" stage that never see the light of day on PG. On WS the equivalent to post-processing is a community-driven process, there's no fixed ownership but only the do-ocracy of those who put in the work.
- adhesive_wombat 5y ago
  Wikisource does also have a lot of unfinished works, but it has that advantage that literally anyone[1] with an interest can come along and push them into a proofread state. In fact, the Monthly Challenge is also deliberately trying to promote this, as well as converting very old copy-paste drive-bys (often from PG, actually, from before Wikisource had the page-by-page proofreading) into modern editions verifiable against a specific original. [1]: You don't even need do to register an account to enter the text, but you do to mark a page as proofread, since there's a two-pass validation system and it works by accounts. It doesn't require an email.

zozbot234 5y ago

The "ownership" model on DP means that they're left with a huge backlog of fully-proofread drafts stuck in the "post-processing" stage that never see the light of day on PG. On WS the equivalent to post-processing is a community-driven process, there's no fixed ownership but only the do-ocracy of those who put in the work.

adhesive_wombat 5y ago
Wikisource does also have a lot of unfinished works, but it has that advantage that literally anyone[1] with an interest can come along and push them into a proofread state. In fact, the Monthly Challenge is also deliberately trying to promote this, as well as converting very old copy-paste drive-bys (often from PG, actually, from before Wikisource had the page-by-page proofreading) into modern editions verifiable against a specific original. [1]: You don't even need do to register an account to enter the text, but you do to mark a page as proofread, since there's a two-pass validation system and it works by accounts. It doesn't require an email.