Version 1.6, released Jul 11, 2003
This page contains links to all the Documentation and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files about the Distributed Proofreaders website.
- Beginning Proofer's FAQ (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/ProoferFAQ.php)- Introduction to the site, general overview, beginner's questions.
- Handy Proofing Guide (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/summary.pdf) - (aka "Summary Guidelines") A printable two-page summary of the most commonly needed proofing standards from the Proofing Guidelines, done as one big example!
- Proofing Guidelines (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/document.php) - The full details of the guidelines we use for proofing documents.
- Language specific guidelines - Guidelines for various languages, when they differ from English.
- Standard Proofing Interface Help (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/prooffacehelp.php?i_type=0) - A help-file for the Standard Proofing Interface.
- Enhanced Proofing Interface Help (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/prooffacehelp.php?i_type=1) - A help-file for the Enhanced Proofing Interface.
- Forums FAQ (http://dp.rastko.net/phpBB2/faq.php) - Information on using the Forum software (our "bulletin board" system for communication between all the people working on a book: the proofreaders, the Project Manager, and the Post-Processor. This is the place to ask your questions about a book.)
- Project Manager's FAQ (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/pm-faq.php) - Information for new or aspiring Project Managers. (Project Managers are people who manage the progress of a particular project ("book") through this site.)
- Submitting Material FAQ (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/scan/submitting.php) - Overview for people who want to contribute material to be proofed on this site.
- Scanning FAQ (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/scan/scanfaq.php) - Basic information on scanners and how to use them, based on our experiences.
- Post-Proofing FAQ (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/post_proof.php) - Information for new and aspiring Post-Proofers. (Post-Proofers are people who do all the processing of a particular project ("book") after it has been proofread on this site (combining all the pages, making them consistent, fixing problems, and submitting it to the Project Gutenberg archive.)
- Project Gutenberg FAQ (http://beryl.ils.unc.edu/~jtinsley/gutfaq.htm) - The massive FAQ from our parent site, Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.net/) (draft of new version). (This url is "unofficial" and "temporary" -- it points to Jim Tinsley's own site rather than anywhere on the official PG site -- but useful anyway.)
- DP Privacy Policy (http://dp.rastko.net/faq/privacy.php) - A link to the Distributed Proofreading Privacy Policy that you saw when you first registered at this site.