Can a similar feature as was added for articles where edits can be suggested or typos flagged for review and approval be added to library entries as well?
I understand that these are published texts, not wiki articles that should not typically be edited, but I’ve occasionally run across typos that I assume aren’t from the original text. Things such as “the the.”
I’m not familiar with how these texts are uploaded, so it’s possible they exist in the source text as well and should be left unaltered.
I hope we can do this because a lot of them are from scanned PDFs that need major editing to fix typos.
A bit late because we don’t get notified when a new post is made (hope lemmy can add that tbh).
We’ve thought about it but it asks several follow-up questions, which essentially boil down to: can we ensure anon editors make changes to library works in a way that conforms to our way of doing things?
For example we do have missing parts in some texts, but will we ensure they will copy the original from the same source we used (not mixing various editions) without doing any edit on the content? On language, will they modernize Chinese spellings from Wade-Giles to pinyin? We’ve decided to keep up with the original material on spelling, and this needs to be communicated to potential editors.
I’ve also myself had the experience of seeing “overcorrection” made (not on ProleWiki), where the importer thinks there is a typo or misreads the OCR typo and changes the word entirely. Cinderella’s glass shoes are a pretty famous example.
There’s a lot of oversight we need to have and when it comes to books, which are huge, we need to ensure that large additions are conforming to the source material and don’t deviate because of personal reasons or even trolling attempts.
We could probably let through super simple typo edits like the one you noticed, but once we open the floodgates so to speak any library edit can be submitted and any trusted editor can approve them. I’m thinking that while I can relay these instructions, 1 or 2 years down the line we’ll start seeing other types of edits appear simply due to entropy.
It’s not a definite no but it’s a lot of questions to think about.
However we’ve had a library editor role for a while. This role is easier to get than full editor (though still requires answering all the vetting questions) and gives access specifically to the library. We don’t advertise it because very few people want to join the library specifically so it’s based on interest, but if you’d like to help with that you can request an account as usual and tell us you’d like to join the library in your vetting questionnaire.
Thanks for the reply. I typically find offline copies of books and hadn’t really browsed the library until recently, but I might start using it more and apply now that I saw how much is available.
