Page A Day project list

Page A Day

This team aims to advance old, somewhat neglected projects. It does this by each member proofing (or formatting) one page of the project every day.

How is this different from say PTO or Gravediggers?

Proofing the Oldest chose to attack the very oldest project in each round. No thinking required, just sort the project lists by age and pick the first. Gravediggers had a differnt approach. This project picks on *one* project per round, which is both so slow-moving and bulky enough that it would take some time - months, often - to finish off without a pack of proofers to quickly bring it down.

Note that no one, other than yourself, can prevent you from doing multiple pages of a project on a day. But the hope here is that a group will gain enjoyment by working on a project together.

Resources

Project thread: forumtopic:29529. Team page: None yet.

History

DAvid (De2164) first proposed this in October 2007 and nominated projects until about January 2008. The effort was adopted by Andre Engels in March 2008, who began suggesting one English, one LOTE project in each round. In 2015 there was a bit of a revival, focussed on P3.

Current projects

Please, please, please examine the project guidelines and any relevant project discussion before doing your page. We don't want to make a mess for those who come after us.

P3:

Title	The Secret Doctrine Vol 1 of 4, The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
Author	Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
PM/PPer	De2164/dking

F2: Someone want to make a suggestion?

Selection criteria

I (pevans) will explore a few different ideas until I see what, if anything, works.[1] A proposed Page-A-Day project should:

• have more than 30 days to go in its round, based on its current average progress, and
• satisfy Andre's criteria:
  1. is not P3 LOTE,
  2. is not Hard[2],
  3. is not Hard P2 LOTE,
  4. doesn't require specialist knowledge.
• have more than 14P pages remaining, where P is the likely number of Page-A-Day proofers. (This means there's at least two weeks' remaining work. What is P? 2? 5? 9?)
• be at least 30 days in its round.
• have a PPer [De2164's suggestion]
• For now, no P1, P2 or F1; they don't need much help.
• For now, no F2: I'm (pevans) not F2 qualified, so I won't suggest anything there. Please, someone else, feel free to do so.

[Footnote 1: "Works" means "gets a slowly moving project moving faster" i.e. results in a significant increase in pages done on it per day.]

[Footnote 2: Andre's "not HARD" restriction might be relaxed (DAvid's suggestion).]

Abandonment criteria

We'll stop working on a project when:

1. The project finishes its current round (doh!), or
2. There's another eligible project in the round to replace it, and
   • there's less than a week left at our current rate of progress, or
   • there's fewer than a hundred pages available (DAvid's suggestion; the remaining pages tend to evaporate quickly)
   • the project gets adopted by another team.
3. The PM asks us to.

Projects previously worked on

P3

2016

1. Title	The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenceless Christians
   Author	van Braght, Thieleman J.
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	Close@Hand/Thiers

2015

1. Title	Armenia, travels and studies (Vol 2 of 2)
   Author	Lynch, H. F. B.
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	jhellingman/jhellingman

2. Title	Spanish and Portuguese South America during the colonial period (2 of 2)
   Author	Watson, Robert Grant
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	josepcols/cbgrf

3. Title	The Governor of England
   Author	Bowen, Marjorie
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	sp1nd/macka

4. Title	Armenia, travels and studies (Vol 1 of 2)
   Author	Lynch, H. F. B.
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	jhellingman/jhellingman

   From 14 August 2015.

5. Title	Creation or evolution?
   Author	Curtis, George Ticknor
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	DACSoft/throth

   From 7 July 2015.

2011

1. Title	The Dabistán, or, School of manners (Volume 1)
   Author	Fåanåi, Muòhsin (Tr. by David Shea & Anthony Troyer)
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	bness2/Sunflower

   Nominated 15 March 2011.

2. Title	History of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902., Vol. 3 {needs fixing, see notes}
   Author	Anonymous
   State	Formatting Round 2: Unavailable
   PM/PPer	Malcolm Farmer/Lostpaces
   Pages (left/total)	88/626

   Nominated 05 March 2011.

3. Title	Report on the Radiolaria collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 - Part 1 {P2->P2}
   Author	Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	amastronardi/Laverock

   [What dates was this worked on?]

F1

2015

1. Title	Handbuch der chemischen Technologie [1871]
   Author	Wagner, Johann Rudolf von
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	Peter.Becker/Jens57

   From 14 August 2015.

2. Title	The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers
   Author	Farmer, Lydia Hoyt
   State	Completed and Posted to Project Gutenberg
   PM/PPer	Miller/Miller

   From 13 July 2015.