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Hi,
I'm the General Manager of Distributed Proofreaders ( http://www.pgdp.net/ ), the entirely-volunteer-run crowdsourced non-profit that digitizes the majority of the out-of-copyright books that are distributed for free via Project Gutenberg (we recently digitized our 30,000th e-book and have more than 100,000 registered volunteers).
Although we have no gain from digitizing e-books, we naturally care about making free books available to anybody who would like to read them.
To that end, I've been thinking that it might be worth while to encourage our Distributed Proofreader volunteers to add links to the Project Gutenberg books that we produce in appropriate areas of the External Links sections of related Wikipedia articles (for example, a link to "Pride and Prejudice available through Project Gutenberg" added in the External Links section of the Wikipedia article on Pride and Prejudice).
However, just in case this might violate your Conflict of Interest guidelines (since the people who would be doing this would be unpaid volunteers of Distributed Proofreaders), I thought I should check with you first before suggesting this to our volunteers.
Thanks.
Lhamilton1 ( talk) 04:18, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Expanding NOTPLOT. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 ( talk) 12:16, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | → | Archive 15 |
Hi,
I'm the General Manager of Distributed Proofreaders ( http://www.pgdp.net/ ), the entirely-volunteer-run crowdsourced non-profit that digitizes the majority of the out-of-copyright books that are distributed for free via Project Gutenberg (we recently digitized our 30,000th e-book and have more than 100,000 registered volunteers).
Although we have no gain from digitizing e-books, we naturally care about making free books available to anybody who would like to read them.
To that end, I've been thinking that it might be worth while to encourage our Distributed Proofreader volunteers to add links to the Project Gutenberg books that we produce in appropriate areas of the External Links sections of related Wikipedia articles (for example, a link to "Pride and Prejudice available through Project Gutenberg" added in the External Links section of the Wikipedia article on Pride and Prejudice).
However, just in case this might violate your Conflict of Interest guidelines (since the people who would be doing this would be unpaid volunteers of Distributed Proofreaders), I thought I should check with you first before suggesting this to our volunteers.
Thanks.
Lhamilton1 ( talk) 04:18, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Expanding NOTPLOT. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 ( talk) 12:16, 25 July 2015 (UTC)