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Standard deviations from the DP Guidelines

German projects have a few peculiarities regarding both proofing and formatting. The German community (Team Germany) here at DP agrees on these Standard Rules for German Projects.

Content related issues

Content offerings for project managers (PMs)

If you are looking for books you as a PM can push through the proofing rounds, check the following links:

  • Many German Google books are listed as claimed by keichwa–these are also available to other CPs! Just post a line, if you would like to work on one or more books listed on the coordination page.

For more information, ask in the Team Germany forum.

Wanted German books

See Classics not in PG/German

German periodicals and journals

See German Periodicals and Journals.

Progress at DP

Some statistics on the number of pages processed each month, in the various rounds, for German-language projects, are available.

Orthography

Information about German orthography

German language DP books spelling variants

Word lists for spellchecking

See German site-wordlists (old)

Tools

Online dictionaries

German

German - German dialects

German - Foreign languages

  • LEO Deutsch - Englisch/Französisch/Spanisch
  • Woxikon Deutsch - Engl./Franz./Span./Ital./Niederl./Port./Schwed.

various

Online encyclopedias

German

  • Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon 14. Aufl. 1894-96 (16+1 Bde.)
  • Dyk/Weisse Neue Bibliothek d. schönen Wissenschaften u. d. freyen Künste 1765-1806 (72 Bde.)
  • Krünitz' Oekonomische Encyklopädie 1773-1858 (242 Bde.)
  • Meyers Konversationslexikon 4. Aufl. 1885-92 (16 + 3 Bde.)
  • Zedlers Gr. vollst. Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften u. Künste 1731-54 (64 + 4 Bde.)

International

Searching

Search engines

  • Metager Suche über deutschsprachige Suchmaschinen
  • Xabbel Die karitative Suchmaschine

Finding Books in German Libraries

  • KVK Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog

Post Processing

See Post-Processing_German_books