July 2, 2010
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Volume 3, Issue #67--July 2, 2010
(Full listing of previous issues is available at DPC Newsletters)
Project Gutenberg Canada Anniversary Article
PG CANADA'S THIRD ANNIVERSARY!
I would like to thank Quill for asking me to contribute this article to the newsletter. I greatly appreciate this opportunity!
It is now three years since PG Canada was born. At the time the site was launched, I was convinced that the site would be a success. But what I did not realize was how quickly the site would grow.
This is due in great measure to the many ebooks created by Distributed Proofreaders Canada. The site now offers nearly six hundred ebooks specifically created for the site. Congratulations!
PG CANADA: A STUDY IN DIVERSITY
PG Canada ebooks come in all shapes and sizes. Some are large and serious monuments of scholarship; others are short stories or children's books. All of these have their place.
We do not have a centralized editorial policy. We have an anarchist system in the best sense of the word: rather than relying on centralized decision-making, we rely on volunteers to decide what they would like to work on. This creates a richness of content that no individual editor could impart.
SOME AREAS OF CURRENT INTEREST
There are some areas where we deliberately encourage volunteers to work. This is primarily the case where Canadian authors are concerned. If we don't care about our authors, who will? I am thinking of two authors in particular: British Columbia's Frederick Niven (1878-1944) and Alberta's Robert J. C. Stead (1880-1959). Both are fine authors, and their books are of much more than mere historical interest. I would be very grateful if these two novelists could continue to receive their fair share of your attention, or perhaps a little bit more than their fair share.
BOOKS IN FRENCH
You may have noticed that the PG Canada site is not an English-language site. If a book is in English, its catalogue entry is in English; but if a book is in French, the entry is in French. If a book is in a third language, its catalogue entry is in both English and French.
Any of the millions of Canadians who speak French but not English can visit and use the site without difficulty.
But the number of books in French that we are posting is far too low. My objective when the site was launched was to have not less than 20% of the titles in French. I can accept that this is not a firm quota, but the fact is that we are not producing enough titles in French. So please pay special attention to titles in French to ensure that they pass through the queues quickly!
PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE COPYRIGHT ACT
Discussing this is like taking a bad-tasting medicine: unpleasant, but important. We must ensure the health of our beloved Public Domain.
Bill C-32, when introduced, had its share of controversial elements, particularly in the area of digital locks. However, it left in place the basic Life+50 rule, for which the government certainly deserves credit, since there is every reason to believe that they are under pressure from foreign countries to extend copyright durations in Canada.
But it is a depressing state of affairs when we are grateful simply because basic copyright durations are left unchanged. Why are some photographs and sound recordings getting copyright extensions? Why is nothing being done to ensure that we the people, to whom Parliament is answerable, have full access to our Public Domain? Nothing could be more helpful or less controversial than a measure that would give us access to works that are more than 75 years old, but which have one or more authors whose life dates are not known. Why is there not a provision for this in the bill?
I'm not singling out any party here: there's lots of blame to to go around. Parliament is there to serve the citizens of Canada: our MPs should bear this in mind. If there's a perceived conflict between "international obligations" and the interests of Canadians, our MPs should have no doubt of whose interests they must serve. Foreign countries don't vote in Canadian elections.
There is much talk of "strengthening copyright"; how about strengthening the Public Domain?
So please remind your Members of Parliament and candidates that (1) an attack on the public domain is an attack on the public, that is, on you and me, that (2) you will not tolerate any copyright extensions whatsoever, and that (3) works which are older than 75 years old whose authors' dates are not known must as a matter of public policy be considered to be part of the public domain.
THANK YOU!
Thank you to everyone for all of your contributions. Thanks to people like yourself, Project Gutenberg Canada has come further than anyone would have dreamed possible. I look forward to the coming year!
Mark Akrigg
Simon Says...
Please join me in wishing Project Gutenberg Canada a very happy 3rd Anniversary on July 1st, 2010. PGC is our close partner in getting the e-books we produce out to the reading public. Mark does an extremely diligent job of finalizing the cataloguing and annotating of the e-books, to offer additional value to the readers, making them aware of extra resources to make their enjoyment of the books greater.
Again this year, we will award some one of our DPC members the "Member of the Year" appellation, on our anniversary December 1st, 2010. Please give some thought to which members have contributed most to DPC's success, and nominate your favourite(s). Just send me an e-mail or PM, naming your selection(s) and saying why you think that way. We'll collate your ideas, and pick an award winner for December.
NB. The site managers (coachmike and Simple Simon) are not eligible.
We're about to pass the 400th book posted mark, and need to think about what special book to make our 500th Book. I guesstimate this could occur around the time of our 3rd Birthday, coming up on December 1. Please suggest which book (in the rounds already, or planned project) should be posted as our 500th, and let me know. I'll arrange the logistics with PGC, and we'll do something special to mark the occasion.
Do have a look at our "Magic" UberProject, represented so far by the project "Water Wizardry", now in P1. Another book is in prep, and many others will follow. Some are quite complicated, with many illos--others are simple pamphlets. There are also posters and magazines in the collection--rather more difficult to present for proofing. If you're at all interested in magic, you'll find these fascinating--and many of the tricks are quite easy to do yourself, once you know the procedure to use. Try them over the Summer, to amuse your family.
I'm getting close to completing the PPing of the text version of volume 65 of the "Jesuit Relations", and will likely make it available for Smooth Reading for an extended period of time, to allow members to comment on the styling and structure I've adopted. Please weigh in with your opinion--we've put a lot of effort into these books, and they deserve to be presented to the public in their best form. By the way, DP-INT has finally come to a complete halt on the 8 volumes they undertook--they have no PM and no willing PPer.
Do you think we should offer to "rescue" these? Several of them are at the "Available for PP" stage, and could be grabbed, if DP-INT agrees. I think we'd have to put them back through one round of proofing and one round of foofing, to adjust for the UTF characters and differing Project Instructions they used. Alternatively, we could just ignore them--there are plenty of other volumes. But this would mean that there will never be a complete, consistent set of "Relations" available.
Don't forget to "look ahead" to see which of your favourite authors will be become "eligible" for DPC as of next January 1 (because they died in 1960). Then we can make a special effort to scan some of their books--not too many will be available as scansets, because TIA and other scan archives don't normally "do" books that are not PD in the US.
Next issue, I plan to reveal my draft of the directory structure/index pages of the planned "display site", so you can comment on them.
Cheers
Simon
A Guide on "How to Proof"
by rcool
In The Beaver Bulletin issue #65, stygiania wrote about applying for P3. This got me thinking about an article on proofing.
The Proofing Guidelines and FAQs tell people the guidelines on what to do in proofing a book, but not how to do it. In this article I hope to provide some guidelines about how to do proofing.
stygiania's article is a good start, especially the tips towards the end, regardless of which round of proofing you're doing. In proofing, as the Guidelines basically state, "match the scan"--easier said than done, isn't it!
Perhaps the ideal method is to look at one character of the scan, then check that the text has that same character. One problem with this is that it's slow. Typically we've learned to read by "seeing" one word at a time. The good thing with this is that it enables us to read more quickly, and typically ignore typos. However, this is bad for us being proofreaders as we don't want to ignore typos--our job is to catch them! If you do Languages Other Than English (LOTE) proofing, and you're not familiar with the language, you probably find you can't read a word at a time and instead revert back to the character at a time approach. This may make you a better proofer for LOTE than for books in your mother tongue (here, I'm assuming that's English). One big problem is that you don't know what you're reading, so you won't know if it's a typo!
As stygiania said, first read the project comments, and do this each day you do some proofing for each book you work on, in case of changes.
When proofing you're actually doing two separate jobs. The first, and one that is emphasized, is to "match the scan", typically to find possible OCR errors. The second is to look for mistakes by the printer or writer. We're actually trying to improve the book content--without changing the meaning. Typically this means catching typographic mistakes, inconsistent spelling, or punctuation problems. It's kind of like you have to see the forest and the trees!
When proofing you don't need to be as particular in round one (P1), as P2 or P3, but I still try to do my best. This is why people start in P1 and earn their way to other rounds. It's also why you can do LOTE, and "match the scan", then let people fluent in the language do P2 and P3. Doing your best in P1 has the downside for P2/P3 proofers in that there isn't much for them to fix (I don't think they publicly complain though).
When proofing you should feel comfortable in your seat and surrounding environment. Personally I don't like distractions, such as music playing in the background, but it's an individual choice.
One method I use is to do it word by word, but try to "look" at the word to see it's correct. Read the word in the scan, then check that it's the same in the text. stygiania said to pay attention to the punctuation, and I do this. When I see punctuation in the scan I make sure it's there in the text, and conversely, if I see punctuation in the text I make sure it was in the scan. I find mistakes others miss this way. It's also the time to keep the "second job" I mentioned previously in mind. Is this the correct type of punctuation here? Is any missing that should be in the sentence? If it's something that can be matched, i.e. quotes, is the matching punctuation present? If it's something that would be on a different page then in the early rounds I wouldn't worry, but at P3 I'd check (however, after the proofing/formatting rounds it should be caught in the Post-Processing (PP) round).
When the scan quality isn't the best, or there are spots, a place I've seen problems is along the right border. I've seen extra punctuation that shouldn't be there. I look in a line along the right edge, and any spots that fall outside are spots, not punctuation.
These books, by definition are older, and so may not use the same spelling as we would now. It doesn't hurt to flag it i.e. [** ], and the more pages you do it may be obvious as to whether it's correct, when you find others like it, or it was a typo. Speaking of spelling, there are two choices--either use the built-in (slightly flawed) spell checker, or copy the text into a spell checker of your choice. I do the latter for two reasons. It can find more problems, e.g. double words such as the the, and if you're doing LOTE you may have a dictionary for that language. This is also relevant when it's mainly one language, but there are parts in another language. You can copy the foreign language part and check it by itself!
Those double words are a problem when you're looking letter/word at a time. Yes, it's there in the scan, and in the text--all's well, right? Maybe yes, maybe no. This is where you also have to be aware of what you're actually reading, and determine "does this sentence make sense?".
Well, I hope this offers some help in the actual process of proofing. I, and others I'm sure, would be interested in hearing of other hints/tips, so please pass them along to Quill for printing in a future newsletter.
Special Requests
Hey, P3s!!
F1 thanks you for the extra work--projects are much appreciated. But, naturally, they are still busy foofers and will continue to need more projects.
Just a couple of extra pages whenever you are in would be appreciated.
And if you are a P2 interested in getting your P3 Qualification, why not go for it. See P3 Qualification for more details or send a PM to stygiania (our P3 Qual PF).
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.
Any available PPers? Or potential PPers?
We can always use PPers; there are about 85 projects in the queue.
Lots of choices depending on what you like:
- easy, average, hard;
- history, biography, fiction, humour (or is that "humor" :wink:), folklore, periodicals, science, military, juvenile and other genres;
- most are in English, but there are several in Portuguese, one in German, one English with French and one in Spanish (at least at the time of writing);
- the projects range in size from about 25 pages to over 800;
- a number of them have illustrations.
New forum topics for June
Do you ever check the DPC Forums Index to see if there are any new topics that might be of interest to you?... I'm not talking about project discussion forums, but forums related to CPing, PMing, PPing, general topics, even new User Team forums, etc., etc., etc. Have a peek at some of them; maybe you'll find an answer to that question that you haven't gotten around to asking or weren't sure if you could or should ask it.... Or maybe you'll find a post that will give you a giggle or two.
In June, we had the following new, interesting, forum threads created:
- Life + 50 remains the basic rule! But...
- Components of books to be included in final posted version
- "Easy" Projects
Editorial
Did you know that Project Gutenberg Canada (PGC) came into existence 3 years ago on July 1, 2007? DPC has proofed many books for PGC; approximately 370 to date.
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.
New and/or recurring articles--Ever thought about providing an article or a paragraph or an idea for the newsletter? That's how new articles and/or series start and continue to appear.
Anytime you have a good idea for the newsletter, please drop Quill a line. You can write such offerings yourself or provide an outline to Quill for further expansion. Don't worry, Quill always edits articles for grammar, punctuation and/or spelling errors so no need to fret about how you've said something. You can remain anonymous if you wish.
Articles about authors or books that you worked on as a CP, PM, proofer, foofer and/or PPer; kudos and compliments, landmarks, quotable quotes, tips or hints that you think will help others, questions, anything related to DPC or PG is welcome. See the list of ideas at the end of the newsletter.
Membership--We're looking good and should be able to welcome our 1,000th member by late summer or early fall ... or maybe even sooner. As an FYI, although DPC's official launch date is December 1, 2007, our first two members--DPCanada and Simple Simon--signed up August 2 & 3, 2007 respectively. Think we can make 1,000 before then? Hmm,... Anyway, we need less than 100 more 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--Simon is finalizing these--hoping to get them done 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've arranged to get "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.
- Volume 26 is in F1: Available; Volumes 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 25, 31 and 32 are available for, in or completed Post-Processing. 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.
- Ten 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 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 Ahronicle 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: 5; post-processing: 1; 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: 6; post-processing: 1; 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 913 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 | 0 |
| June 2010 | 11 |
| May 2010 | 19 |
| April 2010 | 26 |
| 2010 Q1 | 62 |
| 2009 total | 321 |
| 2008 total | 235 |
| 2007 total | 239 |
| Total to date | 913 |
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 65,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 60,000 pages in a round:
- Foofers' Corner in F2
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 NEW!!!
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:
- Team Canada in P2
Completed 20,000 pages in a round:
- Foofers' Corner in F1
- LOTE Flotes my Bote in F2
- P2 Expediters in P3
Completed 15,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 10,000 pages in a round:
- Bibi in P3
- De2164 in F1
- hugger1935 in P2 and F1
- RCEberwein in F1
- rcool in P1 and P2
- Scribe in F2
- snowseraph in P2
- stygiania in P3
- Drama Team in P2
- Team Canada in P3 and F1
- Team German in F2
- Team USA in P2 and F2
- 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
- Marmaduke in P3
- mcbax in P3
- Miscia in P2, P3 and F2
- Pippin in F1
- snowseraph in P1
- stygiania in F2
- supo88 in P2
- Warmheart in P2 and F1
- yajeulb in F1
- Drama Team in P1, P3, F1 and F2
- DPing with Cats in P1, P2 and F1
- Foofers' Corner in P1, P2 and P3 NEW!!!
- Infomaniacs in P2 and P3
- P2 Expediters in P2 and F2
- P3 Pros in F2
- Team British Columbia in P1, P2, P3 and F2
- Team Canada in F2
- Team français in P3
- Team German in P3 and F1
- Smoothies (aka Team Smoothy) in P2
- Team UK in P1, P2 and F1
- Team USA in P1 and F1
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
Way to go, people!!! ALL rounds reached and exceeded their June page targets!!!
July ... well, with barely 1 day complete ... we can't really tell who's going to do what this month....
| Round | P1 | P2 | P3 | F1 | F2 |
| July target | 3,410 | 3,410 | 3,100 | 3,410 | 3,100 |
| *July to date | 109 | 144 | 285 | 129 | 353 |
| July to date % | 3.20% | 4.22% | 9.19% | 3.78% | 11.39% |
| June target | 3,300 | 3,300 | 3,000 | 3,300 | 3,000 |
| June final | 4,832 | 5,498 | 4,697 | 4,679 | 4,231 |
| June final % | 146.42% | 166.60% | 156.57% | 141.79% | 141.03% |
*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 369 Gold Star books posted to PGC or PG-Int. Fantastic work, everyone!!
There are currently 146 Bronze Star projects which are undergoing proofreading or formatting with another 21 waiting in the queue (not including the BEGIN projects). There are 388 Silver Star projects in the post processing stages with 185 being post-processed and 86 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....
