User:Jan.Kamenicek/Help/advice

To learn proofreading, I personally suggest to start with validating works. Once a page of a book is marked as proofread, another editor can check the work, correct mistakes and typos if there are any, and then mark the page as validated, which means that at least two editors checked it that it is OK. If you look e. g. at Index:R U R Rossum s Universal Robots.pdf, you can see that some of the pages are green (these have already been validated) and some are yellow (these have benn proofread but not validated yet). If you click any of them, you will see the scanned page on the right and the proofread text on the left. If there are some mistakes, you can click Edit and correct them. In the editing mode, you will also see five coloured buttons at the bottom: grey, red, purple, yellow and green. After you are sure that there are no mistakes, you click the green button (validated) and save the page.

In this way you will learn some basics of the proofreading extension. In the Category:Index Proofread there are thousands of works waiting for validation :-)

After you learn the basics, you can try the proofreading itself. You can either upload brand new scans of the work (e. g. from archive.org or hathitrust.org) or you can choose some from the 12 thousands of indexes in Category:Index Not-Proofread. An example is Index:A Dreamers Tales and Other Stories.djvu. The proofreading is done in a similar way as validating: when you open a page which is not proofread, e. g. Page:A Dreamers Tales and Other Stories.djvu/22, you will see the scan on the right, and raw OCR text on the left. If there is no OCR text or if it is too bad, you can click the "Transcribe text" button to recieve new OCR text. After proofreading and correcting it, you save it. We usually try not only correct various typos, but also keep the original formatting of the text, if technically possible. If you have some formatting problems, do not bother about it, I can check it and correct it. Once all the book is proofread, it can be transcluded into the main namespace, which I would help you with then. You do not have to proofread this particular book, if you know of any scans of any other Public Domain work, I can upload them for you and found the index page too.

For details you can have a look at Help:Proofread.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

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