That's a good structure. If you take just 3 books the things can be standardized, so the texts are not that different. I can propose a similar structure for the Italian contest.
Aubrey On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:40 AM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: > Since this is the first time we do it and we don't have enough > organizational capacity, it will be easier to hold independent contests. > > For the Catalan edition we are planning to do as follows: > - the contest will be open from Nov 24th 00 UTC till Dec 1st 23:59 UTC. > - 2 organizers select 3 books in secret (more will be added if needed). > The books have OCR of acceptable quality and they are not too hard to > format. The books chosen will be disclosed when the contest begins. One > sample page will be offered, plus links to relevant help pages. We are > putting it all together here: > https://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Viquitexts:Viquirepte_10%C3%A8_aniversari > - the participants get 3 points for each completely corrected and > formatted page, if they validate someone else's page, they get 1 point > - the organizers can disqualify a participant if they mark pages as done > without actually working on them > - the prize will be an ebook reader (model TBD) > > KRLS has told me that he will try to have a counting script ready, if not, > we will count it manually. > > So how many contests are we going to have? Italian, Catalan and, maybe > WM-DC or WM-AU organize the English version? > > When everything is clear we should prepare an annoncement and publish it > next week on the Wikimedia blog. > > Cheers, > Micru > > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Regarding the cotest: >> how do you like an international contest, with both local wikisource and >> single user chart? >> >> Something like Wiki Loves Monuments, like this: >> https://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wlm/stats.php >> >> The real problem is that we *don't* have a way (right now), to associate >> clearly proofredings and validation with single users. >> I don't know how phe's tools count them, but I'm sure something could be >> done. >> toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php?diff=1 >> >> Aubrey >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Craig Franklin <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Well, that would be well within the realm of what the WMAU "Volunteer >>> Support Programme" would be able to fund, if one of our members were to >>> apply: >>> >>> http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Volunteer_Support_Programme >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Craig >>> >>> >>> On 4 November 2013 22:18, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Well, I'd be 100 dollars/euros, something low budget (like a Kindle or >>>> a Kobo). >>>> >>>> Aubrey >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Craig Franklin < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi John, >>>>> >>>>> What sort of cost are we looking at to buy some nifty gadget as a >>>>> prize? Is it something that could be done through our Volunteer Support >>>>> Programme? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Craig Franklin >>>>> President - Wikimedia Australia >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 1 November 2013 16:55, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Great concept. >>>>>> >>>>>> I think this would a great little project, and worth the expense for >>>>>> the WMAu chapter. >>>>>> >>>>>> I helped run a small wikisource competition with Wikimedia Indonesia >>>>>> (esp. Ivonne & Siska) to transcribe a 550 page dictionary, and found it >>>>>> to >>>>>> be very successful, but does require quite a bit of time to run and help >>>>>> newbies. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ill write up a proposal if another WMAu member is willing to second >>>>>> and help organise the competition in Oz. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> John >>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>>> From: "David Cuenca" <[email protected]> >>>>>> Date: Oct 31, 2013 10:09 PM >>>>>> Subject: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource 10th aniversary proposal : >>>>>> Proofreading contest >>>>>> To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" < >>>>>> [email protected]> >>>>>> Cc: >>>>>> >>>>>> Talking with some members of Amical Wikimedia about how to celebrate >>>>>> the 10th aniversary, one of the proposals was to organize a proofreading >>>>>> contest. >>>>>> >>>>>> Basically, we would select some books for the participants to >>>>>> proofread and validate and they would gather points for each page without >>>>>> errors. The person with the most points would win a Kindle donated by >>>>>> Amical Wikimedia. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, we have been thinking that with the help of some members of >>>>>> the Wikisource User Group and other Chapters, then we could escalate it >>>>>> to >>>>>> an international proofreading contest, instead of being just regional. I >>>>>> guess ideally we would need 3 kindles and at least a volunteer from each >>>>>> community to organize it. >>>>>> >>>>>> What do you think of the idea? Would you or any chapter that would >>>>>> like to get involved? >>>>>> >>>>>> Micru >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > > -- > Etiamsi omnes, ego non > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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