Difficulty level

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To be created/developped and updated Each project is assigned a difficulty level by its Project Manager. The four "difficulty level" options are as follows:

• Easy: Projects with decent-quality page images and OCR, and which contain the most common types of proofreading elements, such as page headers and footers, end-of-line hyphenation, "unclothed" dashes, an occasional footnote, etc.
• Beginners only: "Easy" projects reserved for our newest proofreaders.
• Average: Every project that doesn't get placed into one of the other categories.
• Hard: Projects with poor-quality page images or OCR, or some other unusual element(s), which in the PM's opinion, will make it a harder-than-average proofreading job. This can include things like lots of mathematical formulas, extensive Greek transliteration, lots of blackletter/Fraktur fonts, footnotes in sidenotes, or multiple deviations from the standard Guidelines, such as an unusual footnote style, page headers the PM wants turned into sidenotes, or an unusual handling of Latin-1, Unicode, or other characters. The particular area(s) of difficulty for a project will normally be specified in its Project Comments.

If the difficulty-level is anything other than Average, it will display just before the project's genre in the Genre column of the Project List on each round's "home" page. In addition, a project's difficulty-level can always be found on its Project Page.

Be aware that the "difficulty level" designation for a project is up to the judgment of that project's PM; different PMs will have different ideas about what is and is not easier or harder than "average." In addition, each proofreader will have an individual reaction to the difficulty of different projects. Thus, you may find certain "average" projects to be more difficult for you to proof than some "hard" projects, and some "easy" projects to be more difficult than some "average" projects. Finally, a "hard" project may only be hard to format, but average to proof (or vice versa). Thus, don't hesitate to give a "hard" project a try, if its genre and other characteristics seem to interest you.