Newcomers Only

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To be created/developped and updated Newcomers Only projects are (usually EASY) projects that have been set aside for our newest volunteers. These books contain most of the elements proofers need to deal with most frequently, such as "spacey quotes" and other wonky punctuation, a few diacritical marks here and there, an occasional "unclothed" dash or hyphen, and scannos/stealthos you can really sink your teeth into.

New volunteers in P1 are asked to limit themselves to about 10 pages in each Newcomer project, and then move on to a BEGIN or any other project.

Once a Newcomers project has been completed in P1, it is usually transformed into a Proof-only Mentoring project in round P3 (for now anyway), but it may occasionally become a P3 Qual project in round P2. Once the second proofing pass (in either P3 or P2) is done on the project, the new proofreaders who worked on the project in round P1 are informed that their "diff files" for the project are ready, and they are giving instructions on how to check their diffs, and ask questions about and interpret them.

In order to help ensure that the "turnaround time" on diffs is as short as possible (usually around two-three days), Newcomers Only projects are released into P1 more slowly than are Beginners Only projects. Thus, there will very likely be times when no Newcomers project is available in that round. Also, to help these books move into their second round of proofing relatively quickly, they are usually separated into parts of approximately 100 pages each. When all of a given book's parts are finished in F2, a friendly squirrel reassembles the book into a whole and it is made available to a post-processor.