June 4, 2010
From DPCanadaWiki
Volume 3, Issue #65--June 4, 2010
(Full listing of previous issues is available at DPC Newsletters)
Your P3 Applications Questions Answered ... and then some
by stygiania, P3 Qual. Evaluator
1. What is required before a proofer can join P3?
Before you can even apply for P3 you must proof at least 400 pages in P1 and P2 combined (at least 50 must be in P2), format at least 50 pages in F1, pass the proofreading quiz, and have been a member of DPC for at least 6 weeks. Once you meet all of these requirements, a button will appear on the P3 round page which lets you apply for P3. This signals that you want me to start reviewing the quality of your P2 work. To pass the review you must have completed at least 50 eligible pages across three or more projects and you must leave no more than one critical error for every five eligible pages completed.
Alternatively, if you have qualified for P3 at DP-INT, you may send a PM to Simple Simon and he will automatically give you P3 access here.
2. What is an eligible page?
An eligible page means you have made a non-trivial change to the page in P2 or P3 has corrected a critical error on the page. Trivial changes include removing extra spaces between words (because the guidelines state this is optional) or at the end of a text line or removing blank lines at the end of the page (because the need for this is a shortcoming of the current site code which will be fixed when the code is upgraded).
3. What counts as a "critical error"?
Some examples:
- adding formatting during proofing (you are not penalized for formatting that was added during pre-processing or by P1),
- failure to correct OCR errors (scannos),
- leaving incorrectly spaced punctuation,
- failure to follow special project comments or instructions from the PM/PP in the project forum,
- failure to follow the proofreading guidelines,
- silently correcting typos,
- your removal of a previous proofer's [** note],
- failure to attempt to include Greek text and/or the transliteration of Greek text in proper form,
- leaving a note in improper form.
... This list is not all-inclusive.
4. What does not count as a critical error?
It does not count against you if P3 leaves a note regarding a typo as long as you have not silently corrected the typo or corrected the typo and added a [** typo corrected] note when the project comments specifically forbid the correction of typos. P3's addition of -* to a possibly hyphenated word does not count as an error. As long as you have tried to add Greek text and its transliteration in proper form, any corrections to lettering/accents made by P3 will not count as critical errors.
5. What do you do?
Once I receive notification that someone has applied for P3, I immediately begin reviewing the applicant's P2 pages that have been proofed in P3. If you have applied and do not receive a message from me within 3-4 days, please send me a private message to let me know you have applied (the notification system does not always work properly).
The review process involves pulling up a list of all the pages you proofed in P2 and checking every single change you made to the pages as well as every change P3 made to your pages. I keep a record of the project title, png number, time stamp of when you last saved the page, whether you made a non-trivial change to the page, whether P3 found any critical error(s) on the pages, and details of the P3 corrections. Once I have done this review on all pages which can be checked, I make a summary listing how many total pages I reviewed, how many count as eligible pages (this must be greater than 50), how many total critical errors were found, and then calculate how many eligible pages there are per critical error (this value must be greater than 5). Some projects are very clean coming out of P1 due to the quality of OCR or excellent P1 work so you may need to proof several hundred pages in order to have fifty that can be counted for evaluation.
If you have completed enough eligible pages and have fewer than one error for every five eligible pages, I will wave my magic wand (ok, I'll click a checkbox) to give you access to P3 and send you a congratulatory message along with some feedback on any errors found. If there are not enough pages for me to check, I'll send you a message saying I have to wait for projects to get through P3, I'll ask P3 to expedite anything of yours currently in that round, and I'll keep checking until I have enough pages to work with. If you have completed enough pages, but left too many errors, I'll send you detailed feedback of what counted as critical errors and some tips to help you pass when you reapply. PLEASE DO REAPPLY! Few applicants pass on their first attempt.
6. How far back do you check?
Three to six months depending on whether you are a high- or low-volume proofer. It is not possible for me to check a project that has been posted to PGC and archived (the page table no longer exists on the system), nor can I check a project that is still in P2. If I have checked everything available that has gone through P3 and I still do not have enough pages/projects to complete your review, I will designate a project still in P3 as a "P3 Qual" and ask P3 proofers to expedite that work through the round. This will be repeated until I have enough pages/projects to complete the review.
7. What if P3 made a mistake on one of my pages?
Their errors do not count against you in any way. Everyone has an off day and P3s are not required to be absolutely perfect. A P3 proofer who leaves a lot of errors or is clearly missing a specific guideline/special instruction can expect to receive a message from me.
8. Is there a limit to how many errors count per page?
Yes and no. If you clearly misunderstand a specific guideline or special project instruction, all occurrences of that type of error on a page will only count as one error per page. Every single scanno (including punctuation!) will count as an error regardless of how many are on the page.
9. Does every page count as only one page?
Sorry, multi-column periodical or index pages are still just one page. I do have the discretion not to count pages of exceptional difficulty--for example, an entire page of another language in an otherwise English project would not count unless I have reason to believe you are fluent in the other language.
10. What's all this stuff about em-dashes and BOMs and are those errors?
OCR software likes to include actual em-dash characters — in the text when there is an em-dash in the book. Most project managers correct these to two hyphens - - during pre-processing, but not all do so. If someone has posted in the project forum about the presence of em-dashes, please look for them and correct them to hyphens. I know it is very difficult for those who use a smaller computer screen to distinguish between the em-dash and hyphen characters, so if you proof it as an em-dash plus a hyphen — - or - — (properly closed-up and clothed, of course), I will not count it as an error. If you leave only a single character where there should be two hyphens (or only 1-3 characters where there should be four hyphens), it is a critical error.
Byte order marks (BOMs) are usually-invisible characters added by some software at the start of the page to show that the page is using UTF-8 encoding. Due to the invisible nature of these characters and the difficulty of removing them during proofing, these never count against you as a critical error. If you remove them during P2 it will make the page an eligible page even if there is nothing else to correct on the page--I consider BOM removal going above and beyond the call of duty and I'm very thankful for every bit of help I get in eradicating the pests.
11. The rules changed after I started to proof the project so how is that handled?
That is why I collect the last-saved timestamp information. I compare that to the timestamp of forum posts from the PM/PP or the timestamp from when project comments have been edited. When project comments change you will see a notice on the project page the next time you try to proof the project; however, you receive no such notice when a question is answered in the forum (the "watch this topic" notifications are not always reliable). Because of this, I allow 24 hours leeway when checking timestamps. I do expect you to check at least once per proofing day to make certain there is nothing new in the project forum. Forum traffic is light enough at DPC everyone should use the "View unread posts" link at the top of the forum directory, read everything of interest, and then use the "Mark all forums read" link at the bottom of the forum directory (just above the "Who is Online" box) before you start proofing for the day.
That said, if the directions change or are clarified after you have proofed a page, you are not required to go back and correct the page (although I'll be eternally grateful if you do). Reality is you may not log in and proof again before that project leaves P2 so there is no way to require re-editing. P3's corrections in accordance with the new directions will not count against you in this case.
Whenever the site-wide proofreading guidelines change, the change will be announced in the news on every round page, in the forums, and in the wiki. Included in that announcement will be the date the new guidelines will take effect for P3 Qual purposes. From that date forward (starting at midnight server time unless otherwise specified), you are required to follow the new guidelines for all pages proofed unless there are special project comments which supercede the general guidelines. The timestamp of your last save will be compared to the date of the guidelines change to determine which rules are in effect for any particular page.
12. Why are there no P3 Qual projects in P2? What should I proof?
Since DP Canada does not have a queue of projects waiting for P3, we do not need to designate P3 Quals in P2 which will get expedited into P3. You may proof absolutely anything that catches your fancy.
13. What about languages other than English (LOTE)?
Proofers are expected to handle small snippets of other languages within projects. If you are uncertain about spelling or accents, please post about it in the project forum so someone can give you the help you need. If the text uses non-Roman lettering (Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc.), I expect proofers to seek help and leave something meaningful on the page. Leaving OCR gibberish or omitting the text is an error unless the PM specifically asks proofers to omit the non-Roman lettering. Greek lettering should appear as close to the scanned text as possible; only the transliteration of the Greek text should be enclosed in [Greek: ] markup. Both the Greek lettering and the transliteration should be included unless Greek is a main language of the project or the PM says only one or the other is necessary. (Sometimes the author will include transliteration in the text which would make our transliteration redundant.)
If you proof projects which are not primarily in English and you are not fluent in the project language, you can send me a brief note asking me not to count LOTE projects in your review. If you are fluent in another language--particularly French since DPC would like to increase the number of French project produced--I am happy to include LOTE projects in your review or to review only the language of your choice. Please allow extra time for those projects to complete P3 and for me to make the review. I'm afraid I only understand a few words of other languages so I can only write feedback in English.
Since the spell-check included in the proofing interface can only handle English, you are expected to use an external spell-check utility (either in your browser or by copy/paste to other software) for LOTE text. Keep in mind that modern dictionaries often do not match old spelling/accent usage so this isn't 100% accurate, but it is still helpful.
Use the spell checker in the proofing interface only for examining the spelling and punctuation in English language projects. Due to a bug in the software, do not make any changes within the spell check interface and always choose "Quit Spell Check" when you are ready to return to the main proofing screen to make corrections.
14. How is P3 different from P2?
The rules are the same: follow the proofreading guidelines and any special project instructions, remember to spell-check every page, and do not add any formatting during the proofing rounds. By the time the project reaches P3, most of the easy OCR errors have been corrected so you will need to pay more attention to punctuation and look for stealth scannos.
15. Why can DP-INT qualification transfer here but DPC qualification does not transfer there? Can't you work together so people qualify for both sites in one application?
I've brought this up more than once at DP-INT both for applications in general and for LOTE proofers specifically. The reply always sounds suspiciously like chirping crickets. Don't get me started....
16. I applied for P3 and didn't pass. Since then I've made improvements to my technique and checked my diffs. How do I reapply?
Just send a private message to stygiania stating you are ready to reapply. Any pages you proofed on or prior to the date of the feedback I sent from your previous application will not be included in your new application.
17. Do you have any tips, techniques, hints?
a. Always read the project comments carefully. If something is not clear, ask in the project forum before you proof the project. Distributed Proofreading is, by its nature, a team activity and communication with everyone else on your team (everyone who has worked, is working, or will work on that same project) is critical. If someone applies for P3 and I have never seen that person's username in the forums, I can almost guarantee that person isn't tuned in enough to what is happening at DPC to pass on the first application.
b. Books can always have quirks that the PM overlooks when prepping the project. Ask questions if you see something that isn't covered in the guidelines/project comments. Make certain you don't apply special instructions from one project to any other project.
c. Read the forums before you start each day's proofing to make certain you aren't overlooking any new instructions or the clarification of instructions.
d. Pay extra attention to punctuation. Period/comma, colon/semicolon, and single/double quotation mark swaps are very common. Spaced quotation marks, unclothed hyphens/dashes, and incorrect dash length are also problematic. For English projects, the spell-check interface will highlight most of the punctuation which makes it easier to notice (sorry, it doesn't include quote marks). Remember to match the scan for all ellipses unless the project comments say otherwise! The end of a line is treated the same as a space in all cases.
e. If at all possible, install and use the DPCustomMono2 font. It is ugly, but it is particularly helpful when trying to spot O/0 and I/l/1 scannos.
f. Have a thick skin. It can be very difficult to receive a message counting every single error you've left over the last few months. I do not send this because "I hate proofers" or "I'm mean"; I very much want people to qualify for P3 but I must be absolutely certain they are ready for the responsibility. Please do take the time to carefully read your feedback and learn from it. Every word of it is written to help and encourage you and I will always answer any questions you have. If you think I have miscalculated your evaluation, let me know and I will recheck everything. And yes, I have a fairly thick skin as well.
g. Do not apply for P3 just to find out how you are doing. I will happily review some of your pages and give you feedback if requested--the project does not have to be out of P2 for this to occur. Always check your diffs after your projects complete P3 and ask questions if they do not make sense. This will help you learn how to be a better proofer and you'll be better able to judge when you are really ready to apply for P3.
h. If you are really uncomfortable with any specific page either ask for help in the project forum (or Table Tamers for table help or Specialists Needed for index, ads, Greek or other special help) or return the page to the round for someone else to proof. If you return the page to the round, you'll want to announce it in a forum so someone will get to it in a timely manner or the project may get stuck.
i. If the page scans are extremely hard to read even if you adjust the zoom settings, please post in the project forum. If the project page Image Source information is The Internet Archive or Google Books, you may check the original scans on those sites to see if they are clearer. If no Image Source is listed, it means someone here scanned the book. If that person is unable to provide clearer scans, do your best to proof the material and leave notes if you have to make any guesses. As long as you have left a proper note, it will not count against you if P3 makes a change to the noted item or if better scans later become available.
18. I'm a project manager. Is there anything special I need to do to help with the P3 application process?
Yes! Always be prompt to answer questions in the project forum. Post in the Comings and Goings forum if you are going to be away from the site for a length of time; if you do not want project facilitators to answer project questions in your absence, please consider setting your projects to "unavailable" until you return. Give a lot of thought when you are writing project comments. Do not include the same set of rules on all your projects unless all of those rules actually apply to this specific project--proofers don't like to wade through more information than they need! Words may be more cumbersome than a really good example (including a link to a real project proofing image). If you make any changes to the project comments after the project has entered the rounds, please give a brief description of the change (i.e., fixed typo in author's name) in the project forum so the proofers (and I) are not left wondering what was changed.
In Closing
While it can be painful for some proofers to discover they have been overconfident of their proofing ability, it is even more painful for DPC as a whole when proofers are underconfident. I have included details of the P3 applicant scoring methodology so every proofer can review diffs and get a reasonable estimate of their proofing ability as it compares to the P3 standard. Please apply. Even if you are too timid at first to work on anything other than the easiest projects in P3, you are still helping to move projects through the round and freeing up time for the more experienced P3s so they can concentrate on the harder projects. You are never required to proof any number of pages on any given day--if you feel sick/stressed/tired you are always welcome to spend some time in another round or smoothreading or just cheering everyone on in the forums until you feel ready for P3 again.
Special Requests
Attention all CPers (current and potential) and PMs
We're looking for simple English and French projects that can be easily broken into smaller parts for BEGIN projects--short stories would be ideal.
Any available PPers?
We can always use PPers; there are still about 90 projects in the queue though there are OVER 195 being PP'd (up from last time).
However, we're also down to 0 in the PPV waiting queue. So,...
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.
May--New Forum Topics
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 May, we had the following new, interesting, forum threads created:
- The official "no dumb questions" thread for PMs
- First-word all caps in P round
- Google to SELL ebooks....
- Go, Beavers, Go
- McClung, Nellie - anyone interested?
- Laura Ingals Wilder - Little House books
- Books by Theodor Nöldeke
- Formatting button issues
- What does PD stand for here?
- How should I have this formatted.
- Tsunami warning! Copyright changes to be announced June 3
- Life + 50 remains the basic rule! But... Although this one is a June thread, it follows directly from the previous thread and is very important for all of DPC and PGC.
Editorial
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 ...?
Display Site--As you can see from the Simon Says... article of the last issue, Simon is full of ideas for our display site. He's looking for your help and ideas--it is OURS after all. Anyone got any other ideas--there are a few in the Display Site forum, but we can always use more suggestions.
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 still working on these--hoping to get them done soon.
Server and site issues--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.
There's still the odd server problem that has continued, but hopefully those will be cleared up once the site code is upgraded. See below for comments about the site code update.
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 and the DPC site code
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>>
Upgraded DPC site code--There have been further delays so we won't see it for some time yet ... but that's life, isn't it. Comments from a recent post (April 21) by Simple Simon:
We will "synchronize" our site code with that of DP-INT, but it's proving to be more complicated than we thought. All current features of DP-INT, including WordCheck, will be implemented, except possibly a few items that would conflict with the fundamental security design of the DPC servers. (We use VMWare, and a series of "virtual machines" to accomplish our purposes, and this ultra-modern approach requires us to do some tasks in a specific way). The plan has been to depend solely on DP-INT and its Squirrels/Developers to keep the site code updated from "synchronization" onwards. But we may have to reconsider this approach. We are carefully watching the direction in which site development may go, and all the other proposals out there on the subject of site-redesign. These complications, together with our extremely scarce developer resources, are delaying "synchronization" severely.
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 P2: 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. 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 P2: 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: 1; post-processing: 0; 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 P1: Available.
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood is currently in F2: Available.
- 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: 2; 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 should be launched within the next few weeks--see the update in the last newsletter (May 21, 2010) for more details.
Simple Simon advises that should, hopefully, hit the rounds next week.
All "magic" lovers should get ready. 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 902 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 | |
|---|---|
| June 2010 | 0 |
| May 2010 | 19 |
| April 2010 | 26 |
| 2010 Q1 | 62 |
| 2009 total | 321 |
| 2008 total | 235 |
| 2007 total | 239 |
| Total to date | 902 |
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:
- no one at present...
Completed 30,000 pages in a round:
- rolands in P3
- Ex-Pats in F2
- Team Canada in P1
Completed 25,000 pages in a round:
- P3 Pros in P3
- Team Canada in P2 NEW!!!
Completed 20,000 pages in a round:
- Foofers' Corner in F1
- LOTE Flotes my Bote in F2
- P2 Expediters in P3 NEW!!!
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 F1
- RCEberwein in F1 NEW!!!
- 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, P2, P3 and F2
- Marmaduke in P3
- mcbax in P3
- Miscia in P2, P3 and F2 NEW!!!
- 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 NEW!!!
- DPing with Cats in P1, P2 and F1
- Foofers' Corner in P2 and P3
- 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
- Team Smoothy (aka 'Smoothies') in P2
- Team UK in P1, P2 and F1 NEW!!!
- 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 May:
- P1 completed over 160,000 pages
- P2 completed over 148,000 pages
- P3 completed over 129,000 pages
- F1 completed over 129,000 pages
- F2 completed over 121,000 pages
Great work, people!!!
Proofing & Formatting Stats
ALL rounds met and exceeded their May page targets ... some by more than a few pages!! Way to go, proofers and foofers!!!
Now for June: we're only a few days into it (4/30 days = 13%), so it's not much use trying to figure out who is where ... but 2 weeks from now....
| Round | P1 | P2 | P3 | F1 | F2 |
| June target | 3,300 | 3,300 | 3,000 | 3,300 | 3,000 |
| *June to date | 344 | 749 | 492 | 952 | 394 |
| June to date % | 10.42% | 22.70% | 16.40% | 28.85% | 13.13% |
| May target | 3,410 | 3,410 | 3,100 | 3,410 | 3,100 |
| May final | 6,821 | 6,150 | 5,692 | 5,157 | 3,648 |
| May final % | 200.03% | 180.35% | 183.61% | 151.23% | 117.68% |
*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 354 Gold Star books posted to PGC or PG-Int (with 2 in PPV processing). Fantastic work, everyone!!
There are currently 378 Silver Star projects in post processing (with 90 waiting for PPers) and 150 Bronze Star projects which are currently undergoing proofing or formatting; there are another 23 waiting in the queue (not including the BEGIN projects). 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....
