Re: Paul Duguid article: "Limits of self-organization: Peer production and quality"
- From: Jon Noring <jon@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Paul Duguid article: "Limits of self-organization: Peer production and quality"
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:24:28 -0700
Bowerbird wrote:
> my model of "continuous proofreading" puts the _final_burden_ on
> readers from the general public, and i think this is a better
> approach. some errors can only be caught by a person who's reading
> for content; so we need to make that an _explicit_ part of our
> bargain with the users.
Let's assume we come up with the absolute best, dream system which
allows the general public using a digitized text to submit "error"
reports with the least amount of hassle to them, and that we even
somehow make it fun for them.
The question is if the general public using public domain texts will
respond by submitting error reports in sufficient numbers to make the
system worth operating?
Maybe with the popular texts, such as the well-known classics, we'll
see enough public input to produce an error-free text. But for those
books which are rarely read all the way through (they are largely
obscure works and their occasional use may primarily be for reference
purposes based on full-text searches), I would think those texts will
never be fully corrected.
Lots of unknowns. And the current PG system for reporting and
correcting errata is unfortunately not able to answer the question.
Jon Noring