On 9 November 2013 02:21:48, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
The bare bones, for something on enWS, would be
*choice from out of existing texts on WS of a range of works, none too
hard to do (steer clear of special characters, heavy format and so on),
and
*a page with links to the Index pages?
With explanations of the traffic-light quality system, and an outline of
the competition rules.
Setting up a page will be easy but first,
1) Is Wikimedia UK going to back this?
2) How is this going to work?
I'm not that familiar with all of the unfinished works on Wikisource at the
moment but I think we might need to upload some new ones too.
If we do this, we need to work out what sort of works we want to use.
I think works from the late Victorian era or twentieth century would be the
best choice. They probably won't have the special characters or formatting
issues, for the most part. Novels might be better than poetry; the latter
has less text but more formatting. More famous authors might make sense
but may also feel redundant; I don't know if people would want to work on
something that's already widely available elsewhere. I would like to
include some mid-twentieth century stuff, as a gentle reminder than the
public domain did not stop in 1900, but the only things I know that are
available are some issues of Amazing Stories that I had planned to work on
myself (which have some illustrations and a few pages with complicated
formatting). There should probably be some variety so people not
interested in one could swap to something else.
What are the competition rules? For example, do validations count? It
would be nice to include that aspect of the project. Does proofread of
non-competition list works count towards scoring? What if one person does
some proofreading but the page is completed by another? Will Wikimedia UK
award prizes to users outside the UK? Will Wikimedia UK award prizes?!
Some of my suggested answers:-
* 2 points per proofread page
* 1 point per validated page
* Only works on the competition list count towards scoring
* Works proofread by multiple people have the points divided equally among
them, except...
** Merely saving OCR'd text without proofreading doesn't count for scoring
* Blank pages do not count towards scoring
* The importance of the location of the user is probably down to the chapter
If cy.ws is getting in on this, they need their own page and we need to
decide if that is a separate competition or not. That is, will the most
prolific on cy.ws get an e-reader AND the most prolific on en.ws gets an
e-reader OR are they competing against each other for just one e-reader.
Is it just en & cy or will Wikimedia UK support other competitions? Will
it support a Polish or Bengali competition, for example, assuming they are
running one? NB: I cannot find any administrators on cy.ws, so I don't
know whom to ask.