Kitchen Sink FAQ

FAQs

• FAQs in DPWiki
  • New Volunteer Frequently Asked Questions
  • Beginning Proofreaders' FAQ
  • General Proofreaders' FAQ
    (aka Kitchen Sink FAQ)
  • Content Providing FAQ
  • Project Managing FAQ
  • Smooth Reading FAQ
• See Also in DP Wiki
  • Proofreading Guidelines Explanation
  • Proofing Examples
  • Formatting Guidelines Explanation
  • Formatting Examples
  • The Jargon Guides
• Other Related FAQs
  • DP's FAQ Central
  • PG's FAQ Page

Welcome to Distributed Proofreaders! The purpose of these FAQs is to provide answers to common questions that newish proofreaders joining us here at DP have asked. Obviously not all questions can be included here. You might also be interested in the New Volunteer Frequently Asked Questions or in the Beginning Proofreaders' FAQs. If you don't find the answer you're looking for, please look in our official documentation pages or our wiki Main_Page.

Proofing Stuff

Can I remove projects from my My Projects page?

Sorry, you can't. Each project you've worked on will stay on that list while it travels through the rounds. It will disappear after it has been posted to the Gutenberg site, though. In the meantime, you can sort the list. Click one of the links at the top--"Title," "Project Stage," or "Time of Last Activity"--and the page will be sorted by that. Helps get stuff out of the way that's cleared out of whatever round you're working in, at least.

I returned a page to the round, but it came back. Help!

The "Return Page To Round" is the "run away screaming" button; it abandons all your changes and drops it back into the round. Which is why if you return a page to round and click on "Begin Proofreading" it'll serve you that page; it's now the next available page for proofing. If you just want to get past a particularly ugly page, say one that's half Greek or something, that you know you can't handle (yet), the trick is to save it as "in progress", hit the "Stop Proofreading" button, (NOT "Save As Done" or "Save As Done And Do Another") which will dump you back out to the project's main page. You'll see an "In Progress" page below your "Done" pages at the bottom of the screen. If you hit "Start Proofreading" again, you'll get the next available page, which won't be the one that's "In Progress". At the end of your proofing session, just reopen that page from the project main page by clicking on it, and return it to round. With any luck, while you're asleep someone else who LIKES Greek will come along and proof it.

If you forget to return it to round, don't panic. The system automatically returns all "In Progress" pages to the round for you once all the other pages in the project have been proofed.