July 16, 2010
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Volume 3, Issue #68--July 16, 2010
(Full listing of previous issues is available at DPC Newsletters)
F2 Parlour -- "It's a Wrap"
by Adair
/* To wrap or not to wrap That is the question; To blank line or not to blank line That be the quandary. If I could peer into the future Seeing the artist plying his hand; The magic would be dispelled Leaving clarity in all the land. */
What does happen to those carefully formatted lines when processed through Guiguts. For an introductory article illustrating /* */ and /# #/ you are invited to F2 Parlour: It's a Wrap.
/# A Fine Parlour for formatting questions and discussion featuring lively polite conversation. The goal is to understand the needs of the Post Processor and to create the finest consistent documents for the Post Processor. #/
Please do have a look and post your comments.
Special Requests
Attention all CPers (current and potential) and PMs
There is a shortage of projects in the P1: Waiting queue and De2164 would like more NON-FICTION along with the usual offerings of fiction. Naturally, any LOTE, particularly French, is gratefully accepted. He is looking to build up the supply of projects so that we don't run short over the summer.
Editorial
Notice--Simple Simon's article is not available this week--he is recovering from a very serious harddrive crash. He's not out of touch, just very busy getting his computer up and running again. Those of us who have also suffered similar calamities empathize with him.
Kudos, Bouquets and Compliments--In a recent conversation, Adair made the comment to me that we mustn't forget kudos for those DPC volunteers who are not as prolific as others (for any number of reasons) or who cannot show up at DPC every day to do "a page a day" or who work diligently on those seemingly orphaned but difficult LOTE projects as well as those who do many different DPing tasks. Adair is quite right. We do praise the people who make milestones in their preferred "round of choice"--even when they aren't interested in counting the number of pages themselves. We must also remember all the other hard-working volunteers who keep us going. From CPers through to PPers, everyone performs essential and important jobs ... without every one of those volunteers, DPC couldn't exist. Congrats and many, many thanks to you for all your hard work. Virtual flowers and candy (or fruit) are on the way.
DPCer of the Year--Don't forget to send your nominations to Simple Simon at starlink @ rogers.com along with your reason(s) for the nomination.
Display site--Do please provide Simon with any suggestions or ideas that you have. He's provided an email link (starlink @ rogers.com) so that you can send him comments that you don't want to write in a forum post. Any and ALL ideas, comments, suggestions, questions, etc. are welcome. I'm sure that there are more ideas out there.
I've had a request to highlight the newest updates in the ÜberProjects sections. So I'm going to try using a background highlight ... let me know what you think. Does it help or detract? Would a different colour be better? This is supposed to be one of the "web-safe" colours that is really safe for most systems.
Membership--We're looking good and should be able to welcome our 1,000th member by sometime this fall ... or maybe even sooner. As an FYI, although DPC's official launch date is December 1, 2007.... Think we can make 1,000 before then? Hmm,... Anyway, we need about 80 people to register.
So, what do you think we should do in celebration? A special project or ...?
Calling all Proofers--This is a constant request: we do have an ongoing need to get projects into the formatting rounds. Maybe all proofers--especially P3s--could commit to doing a few more pages every week ... at times, F1s don't have many projects to choose from and what they get are quickly dealt with.
Foofers can help with proofing, too; especially if you are looking for a change of pace.
PLEASE NOTE--Update--The "new" FAQs and non-English Guidelines that you can access through the FAQ Central page either have been or are being revised to be truly DPC versions.
Formatting Guidelines--These will be a bit longer before we get them. Soon, though, soon.
Auto-generation of forum discussion threads--Wonderful news ... the auto-generation of project discussion forum threads appears to be fixed. It's still a bit awkward--but it works!! Thank you, coachmike.
Another fix is the auto-generation of User Team discussion threads. IonaV and Miscia have transferred the posts from the manually-created threads to the new automated ones. Don't worry, your stats won't be affected as they are connected directly to the User Team listing page where you sign onto a team.
ÜberProjects--see the regular updates below. There's a good possibility that several more of our Chronicles will be posted soon.
Revisions to Guidelines, FAQs, etc.
Guideline Differences--Once we get our Proofreading and Formatting Guidelines updated to go along with our upcoming site code upgrade, we intend to produce a wikipage with the differences. We're working on the Guidelines updates at this time and we hope to produce the "differences" page shortly thereafter.
Guidelines Summaries--IonaV, with the kind assistance of Long Green (aka Mama Beth) as well as stygiania and jjz (P3 and F2 Quals PFs respectively), is updating the Proofreading and Formatting Guidelines Summaries. The ones currently available through our FAQs page are a little out of date considering that some of the rules noted in the summaries are TOTALLY different from what we do!! <<oops>>
ÜberProject #1: Chronicles of Canada
There continue to be lots of spaces for volunteers to PM, PP and even CP. To see the current status of the volumes, check out the ÜberProject wiki page for The Chronicles of Canada here: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/The_Chronicles_of_Canada.
- De2164 and IonaV are prepping the rest of the volumes. Sufficient PMs have volunteered to handle all remaining volumes--we just need PPers, but the volumes can be picked up from the PP pool when they have completed the rounds unless there is a volume that a PPer really wants to do--in that case let the PM know sooner rather than later.
- We have borrowed "mint condition" copies of the full set and so will be able to get good scans of all the maps and illustrations as well as picking up missing pages (if any). Thank you to hugger1935 for the use of the books.
- P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; available for or completed post-processing: 14; posted to Project Gutenberg: 11 There are several in New Project being prepared for the P1: Waiting queue with one or two yet to be prepped.
- PP standards have been set and the books do not have anything extremely difficult at all. Check the Chronicles wiki page for the PP standards. Some of the standards for PPing have been updated.
- Volumes 13, 17 and 24 are being done at DP-Int since the authors of these volumes are out of DPC's copyright purview. They will be posted to PG-Int in due time. For those that are interested, Volumes 13, 17 & 24 are all in F2: Waiting.
- Eleven volumes have been posted to PGC and/or PG-International:
- Volume 1: The Dawn of Canadian History, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada,
- Volume 2: The Mariner of St Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier,
- Volume 3: The Founder of New France, A Chronicle of Champlain,
- Volume 5: The Seigneurs of old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism,
- Volume 8: The Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760,
- Volume 11: The Winning of Canada, A Chronicle of Wolfe,
- Volume 12: The Father of British Canada, A Chronicle of Carleton,
- Volume 18: The 'Adventures of England on Hudson Bay', A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North,
- Volume 20: Adventurers of the Far North, A Chronicle of the Arctic Seas,
- Volume 27: The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841, and
- Volume 29: The Day of Sir John MacDonald, A Chronicle of the Early Years of the Dominion.
ÜberProject #2: Jesuit Relations
Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France; 1610-1791
Vol. 65: Lower Canada, Mississippi Valley, 1696-1702, is in post processing and close to the Smooth Reading stage. Simon is working on a draft of the "plain text" version for this book. This volume will take longer to PP as he is setting up precedents and procedures for the PPing of this project. If you've done any work on any of the volumes either here or at DP-Int, you'll know that they are not simple.
Vol. 66: Illinois, Louisiana, Iroquois, Lower Canada, 1702-1712, is now in post processing.
Vol. 67: Lower Canada, Abenakis, Louisiana; 1716- 1727 is in P3: Available. Lots of "fun" with strange characters, old style French spellings and accents, bits and pieces of other languages.
Vol. 68: Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736 is in P3: Available. Again, lots of "fun" with strange characters, old style French spellings and accents, bits and pieces of other languages.
Vol. 69: All Missions; 1710-1756 is in P3: Available. More of the same strange characters with Latin as well as old French spellings and English.
A set of standards has been determined and added to the Project Comments. An ÜberProject wiki page for Jesuit Relations has been created. It includes the basic instructions for proofing and formatting.
ÜberProject #3: Governor General's Award Books
Warmheart has created an ÜberProject page for this uberproject. The page looks very good and has lots of links. You can see the details of what she has completed to date here: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Governor_General%27s_Literary_Awards Check it out, you might find something interesting there....
There are only a couple of books that are available since many of the authors are still alive--ah, well, we'll get them eventually. :)
ÜberProject #4: Periodicals
Graham's Magazine
This was the first of our Periodicals ÜberProjects.
Second year-- prep: 6; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 4; post-processing: 2; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0
First year-- ALL issues are posted to Project Gutenberg
Our Young Folks
An illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls
Issued monthly; Publication Dates: January 1865 thru October 1873 when it merged with St. Nicholas.
Volume 3: prep: 1; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 0; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0
Volume 2: prep: 3; P1: Waiting: 2; proofing/formatting rounds: 4; post-processing: 3; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0
Volume 1: post-processing: 10; posted to Project Gutenberg: 2
Warmheart's wikipage for the Periodical can be found through this link: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Our_Young_Folks .
Scientific American
These are very early issues from 1846. The first issue has now been posted. Simon has more being prepped for proofing.
We've started a wiki page for it: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Periodicals/Scientific_American.
The Maple Leaf
This Canadian juvenile periodical was published between 1852 and 1854 for a total of 30 issues. IonaV is PMing and handling the prep. Susan downloaded the scans and will possibly do the PPing.
Volume 1 (6 issues): prep: 5; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 1; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0.
A wikipage has been created: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/The_Maple_Leaf
"Old Periodicals" Criteria
Remember, these aren't the only periodicals that we can do--there are lots of others out there and some that are quite unique. Is there one that you'd like to do? Suggestions for favourite OLD periodicals are always welcome, but they must meet 3 criteria:
- published earlier than 1865 to avoid the need for copyright checking
- good quality scans of a reasonable number of issues (preferably in whole volumes of 6-months or a year)
- interesting content, out of the ordinary, Canadiana, ...
ÜberProject #5: Works by Charles Dickens
Simple Simon and IonaV are Dickens fans. We know that there are many more out there. Although there are some of Dickens' works on the other PG sites, some of it is text only. We've got early editions of those books with illustrations as well as stories that have not yet been posted. As well, there are letters and essays and ...
- Bleak House, the original version illustrated by "Phiz", is in P2: Available.
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood is currently available for post-processing.
- A Christmas Carol, The Original Manuscript has been posted to Project Gutenberg.
- Two short stories for our anniversary blitz are posted to our wiki (http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Dickens_%22First_Anniversary%22_project): The Christmas Tree and What Christmas is as we get older. They will be posted to PG Canada with other Dickens' short stories.
More details and an ÜberProject wiki page to come.
ÜberProject #6: John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and military leader of Canada, and one of the true Canadian "Fathers of Confederation". This is NOT dull history either.
Projects about or by Simcoe in proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 2. Three have been posted to PGC.
Simon is soliciting other material by or about Simcoe--do you know of any?
ÜberProject #7: Gilbert (George) Murray
Gilbert Murray lived from 1866-1957. He was quite a prolific writer with some 90 odd titles to his name with 32 of them being translations of Greek dramas.
Status of these projects--post processing: 7; proofing/formatting rounds: 3; P1: Waiting: 0; in prep: 2+.
Miscia has created a wikipage which will be a work in progress naturally: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Gilbert_%28George%29_Murray_%281866-1957%29
ÜberProject #8: Art Latcham Magic Collection
This new ÜberProject has been launched--see the update for more details.
Status of these projects--proofing/formatting rounds: 1; in prep: 1.
All "magic" lovers should enjoy these books. If you know of anyone who likes magic and who are not members of DPC, be sure to let them know about this upcoming ÜberProject.
And if you want to be really involved with the project in some way: prepping, PMing, PPing, managing the ÜberProject wikipage or any of the tasks listed in the Simon Says... article above, just send Simon a PM and let him know.
We Grow Every Day
We are now up to 920 members. Welcome to all new members; I hope you find some projects that you will enjoy doing. Many of our members are also members of DP-Int/US and/or DP Europe--we welcome them and thank them for all their continued support and interest in DPC. (Numbers are accurate up to "press" time.)
| New | |
|---|---|
| July 2010 | 7 |
| June 2010 | 11 |
| May 2010 | 19 |
| April 2010 | 26 |
| 2010 Q1 | 62 |
| 2009 total | 321 |
| 2008 total | 235 |
| 2007 total | 239 |
| Total to date | 920 |
Milestones
We are going to use this space to "celebrate" notable milestones achieved by a member, team, group or project. For example, we'll report when a member completes 5,000 pages in any one round; then we'll let you know when they've done 10,000 pages and so on.
The "team" numbers are the cumulative totals for each round for each member while they are members of a particular team. So that's why, the team pages go up whenever a team member's totals increase. Another reason to join a team or two....
Completed 70,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 65,000 pages in a round:
- Foofers' Corner in F2 NEW!!!
Completed 60,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 55,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 50,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 45,000 pages in a round:
- uwe-joachim in F2
Completed 40,000 pages in a round:
- Team USA in P3
Completed 35,000 pages in a round:
- rolands in P3
Completed 30,000 pages in a round:
- Ex-Pats in F2
- P3 Pros in P3
- Team Canada in P1
Completed 25,000 pages in a round:
- Foofers' Corner in F1 NEW!!!
- Team Canada in P2
Completed 20,000 pages in a round:
- LOTE Flotes my Bote in F2
- P2 Expediters in P3
Completed 15,000 pages in a round:
- Scribe in F2 NEW!!!
- stygiania in P3 NEW!!!
Completed 10,000 pages in a round:
- Bibi in P3
- De2164 in F1
- hugger1935 in P2 and F1
- Miscia in F2 NEW!!!
- RCEberwein in F1
- rcool in P1 and P2
- snowseraph in P2
- Drama Team in P2 and P3 NEW!!!
- Team Canada in P3, F1 and F2 NEW!!!
- Team German in F2
- Team USA in P2 F1, and F2 NEW!!!
- Weather Reports in F2
Completed 5,000 pages in a round:
- Adair in F1 and F2
- Antigony in F1
- cmspence in F2
- Daniel G in P1
- gmiller in P2
- goofball in P1
- hugger1935 in P1, P3 and F2
- jadrien in P3 NEW!!!
- Marmaduke in P3
- mcbax in P3
- Miscia in P2 and P3
- Pippin in F1
- snowseraph in P1
- stygiania in F2
- supo88 in P2
- Warmheart in P2 and F1
- yajeulb in F1
- Drama Team in P1, F1 and F2
- DPing with Cats in P1, P2 and F1
- Foofers' Corner in P1, P2 and P3
- Infomaniacs in P2 and P3
- P2 Expediters in P2 and F2
- P3 Pros in P2 and F2 NEW!!!
- Team British Columbia in P1, P2, P3 and F2
- Team français in P3
- Team German in P2, P3 and F1 NEW!!!
- Smoothies (aka Team Smoothy) in P2
- Team UK in P1, P2 and F1
- Team USA in P1
And how many pages have been done in each of the rounds? Naturally, F2 will be at the bottom since they are the last round that gets the projects before PPing and P1 will be on top since they get to start all the projects. <grin> Another consideration is that P3 or F2 stats may be slightly smaller if the PM/PPer has skipped his/her/their project through either one or both of those rounds. So let's see where each round was at the end of June:
- P1 completed over 165,000 pages
- P2 completed over 153,000 pages
- P3 completed over 134,000 pages
- F1 completed over 134,000 pages
- F2 completed over 126,000 pages
Great work, people!!!
Proofing & Formatting Stats
Well, we're half way through July (16/31 days = 51.6%). Let's see ... Well, to start F2 has already reached and exceeded their July page goal (due to the presence of certain very experienced, dedicated and/or prolific F2s--thank you!!). All other rounds are beyond the half way point with P1 and P3 well on their way to reaching July page targets ahead of time. Another 2 weeks, people and we'll see where everyone is as that will be just before month-end. We're doing quite well for summer vacation, don't you think?
| Round | P1 | P2 | P3 | F1 | F2 |
| July target | 3,410 | 3,410 | 3,100 | 3,410 | 3,100 |
| *July to date | 2,518 | 2,023 | 2,134 | 1,962 | 5,679 |
| July to date % | 73.84% | 59.33% | 68.84% | 57.54% | 183.19% |
*Numbers accurate to "press" time.
For more statistics and related links go to: Statistics Central.
Books In Process And/or Posted To PG Canada or PG-International
At press time, we had 379 Gold Star books posted to PGC or PG-Int. Fantastic work, everyone!!
There are currently 127 Bronze Star projects which are undergoing proofreading or formatting with another 19 waiting in the queue (not including the BEGIN projects). There are 407 Silver Star projects in the post processing stages with 199 being post-processed and 94 waiting for PPers; the balance consists of those that have completed post processing and are awaiting posting at PG or are parts of projects that have been or will be merged which is why the Silver Star numbers are extremely variable. For more details about the posted and/or active projects, please see the listings on the DPC Welcome page.
User Team Talk
Have you checked out our user teams? To check out the teams or to join one go to: User Teams. The Team threads are located under Proofing Team Talk. Is there a team that you'd like to see? You can create a team from the link on the User Teams page--you might be surprised by who shows up to join you.
We have 28 teams; more are always welcome.
Possible Future Articles
This is YOUR newsletter: yes, there are forum posts and user team posts, but is there something that you want to tell the whole DPC community? You are allowed to brag here. You can also be anonymous if you choose ... we won't tell.
- Tips or Hints: for those people who do/did a lot of proofing and/or formatting on DP-Int/US &/or DP-Eur, do you have any tips or "rules" that you follow to help yourself while you proof or format? Even a re-wording of a guideline that helps you remember how to do something specific.
- Tell us why you joined DPC.
- Quotable Quotes: have you seen a thought-provoking quote that is relevant to the DP Community while you were doing your proofing that you just had to pass on?...
- The most interesting, outrageous, or strangest line you proofed: before it was proofed (if that was the outrageous or strange part) and what it was after proofing (please do not submit obscene language, it will not be published).
- New projects: PMs is there a series of books or books by a very prolific author that you'd like to do?--let us know so that we can help pass the word to the proofers so they'll be there to jump in and work on them.
- Kudos, Bouquets & Compliments: are there any DPers that you would like to give special thanks and/or recognition to: a mentor who gave you lots of guidance, a PPer that made your project into a very wonderful looking book for posting to PG, a CPer or image/text preparer who went the extra little bit to provide you with clean scans, well OCR'd text, or good illustrations for your project, another DPer who made you feel really welcome or provided you with some good advice or....
- "Guest articles" by anyone and everyone who wishes to....
