Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 4 (section)

== Dazed and Confused: is Wikipedia the son or brother of ProjectGutenberg? ==

Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this, but I can't find a page or a link to a page where I might sign up to be a volunteer editor.

But wait, how does Wikipedia relate to Project Gutenberg?

The way you use the terms proofreading and editing are also making my head spin

I have done proofreading, and I have done editing: generally these are two almost exclusively seperate roles, or at a minimum occur at a different point in the time line of the production of a hardcover, online, or softcover, multimedia, slide show document--editing produces final 'approved" text while proofreading verifies the accuracy of the spelling, grammar, before the final work is published.

Editing allows the "editor" to inject herhis knowledge, opinions, attitudes and style; proofreading is based on a comparison of "new" draft text for publication with the "old" approved final manuscript text and many times proofreaders will read the document backward so that the literal words and punctuation can be checked w/o being distracted by the flow of the content.

That is what I was looking for, volunteer proofreading, but somehow I missed the place where I signup to volunteer, or the place where I compare the sample document to the original.

Since I hope I can help I hope you can help me?

:You don't sign up, you just click the "edit this page link" at the top of every page and away you go. I know it seems really "stupid" that we just let anyone edit pages like this. Hell it is really stupid, and yet this stupid approach is what makes Wikipedia soooooo good.Proofreading is really useful as some of us are really bad at typing and make loads of silly spelling errors (I'm talking about myself here, but there must be a few others who are nearly as bad as me [who are you trying to kid Theresa you know you're the worst so far]). You can choose to work anon or you can log in and get a user account forst if you want (click "log in" at the top right of every page) HTH [[User:Theresa knott|theresa knott]] 19:53, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, with appreciation, RK

:Also if you want to compare a version with the previous one click on the "Histroy tab" although as Wikipedia is always a work in progress you can never assume the old version will be error free. [[User:Theresa knott|theresa knott]] 19:55, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

:Something else to note, we aren't transcribing here, so the reason you're not finding a source document to compare to is because there isn't one. -- [[User:Cyrius|Cyrius]]|[[User talk:Cyrius|&#9998;]] 22:28, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

:This site isn't related to Project Gutenburg although some of work on both. Perhaps you were thinking of [[Distributed Proofreaders]]. [[User:Rmhermen|Rmhermen]] 17:03, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)