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This wiki page contains links that may help volunteers locate the information they need to work on the Distributed Proofreaders site. The links here include both links to official DP documentation which is managed by the DP site administrators and others appointed by them (bolded) as well as links to other helpful volunteer-created and volunteer-maintained information.
Note: The content on this wiki has been created by Distributed Proofreaders volunteers over sixteen years and some of the documents will not reflect accepted policy or procedures or will no longer be up-to-date. Please use this page and the DP Official Documentation to help you find content. If in doubt about a policy or procedure that you cannot find in the content listed below or in the DP Official Documentation, please query in the Distributed Proofreader forums.
Finding Information Here
- Official DP Documentation (managed by the DP site administrators and others appointed by them)
- How to Search the Wiki
- What is a Wiki?
- How to use the Wiki
- How to Request Support
Below are selected pages topics that you may find helpful.
For Beginners
- Beginner's Guide to Navigating DP
- Distributed Proofreaders Walkthrough
- New Volunteer Frequently Asked Questions
- "Getting Started" Email to New Volunteers
- Beginners only (BEGIN) projects
- Proofreading Quizzes and Tutorials
- The Parts of a Book
- FAQ Central
- Stop Reading and Start proofing (in the first round, P1)
- Certification of Volunteer Work
Proofreading
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- Proofreading Guidelines
- Jargon related to The Guidelines
- Proofreading Guidelines Explanation
- Beginning Proofreaders' FAQs
- How to Proofread (Section in the DP Official Documentation area)
- Working with the Proofing Interface
- Using the Character Picker
- Proofing Examples
- Proofreading Special Accents/Characters/Languages
- Proofing_Chinese
- Proofreading Tools
- Proofreading Roles and Access Requirements
- WordCheck FAQ for Proofreaders
- DP-feedback -- Request Proofreading or Formatting Feedback
- DP Sans Mono proofreading font
- All Wiki Pages Related to Proofreading
Formatting
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- Formatting Guidelines
- Formatting Guidelines Explanation
- What is a Foofer
- Welcome Email to new F1s
- Formatting Markup
- Library of Formatting Examples
- Formatting Examples
- How to Use Formatting Preview
- F1 Self-Evaluation Project Explanations
- Are you ready for F2? Self-evaluation checklist
- Formatting Advice
- Formatting Roles and Access
- Special Types of Formatting
Smooth Reading
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Post-Processing
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- What is Post-Processing?
- Post-Processing Access Requirements
- Post-Processing FAQ
- DP HTML Best Practices
- Welcome Email to new Post-Processors
- Post-Processing Advice
- Post-Processing Jargon
- Easy Epub
- PP examples on PG
- Regex_Cookbook
- CSS Cookbook
- Post-Processing Tools
- Images and Covers
- Post-Processing in Special Situations
- Macintosh-specific tips
- Getting Ready for PPV or Direct Upload
Post-Processing Verification
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Content Providing and Project Management
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- Content Providing FAQ
- Project Managing FAQ
- Content Provider and Project Manager Roles
- Information For New and Returning CPers and PMs
- Content Providing Jargon Guide
- Useful Links for Content Providers and Project Managers
- Content Providing Advice
- Project Management Advice
- Content Providers seeking Project Managers
- Checklists
- Project Categorization
- Scans
- PM Mentoring
- P3 skip evaluation
- Project hospital
- Project Management with Linux
- Release queue
- Special Days
- Type-in project
- WordCheck FAQ for Project Managers
- Music Guidelines for Project Managers
- A personal View of PMing
- All Wiki Pages Related to Content Providing
- All Wiki Pages Related to Project Management
Overview of Distributed Proofreaders
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Promoting DP
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DP Development
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About this Wiki
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This wiki contains a mix of official DP documentation (managed by the DP site administrators and others appointed by them) and other helpful user-created and user-maintained information. You can identify official documentation several ways:
- by its page name (which begins "DP Official Documenation:"),
- by the title on the first tab at the top of the page ("dp official documentation"), and
- by the light yellow page header that reads "DP Official Documentation".
For information on how to search for information on this wiki, please read the How to Search the Wiki article.
For information on how to edit wiki pages, please read the Editing article.
- The Exploration Overviews can be thought of as analogous to Tables of Contents for the Wiki.
- Explore the Wiki on the basis of who we are and who we know.
- Explore the Wiki on the basis of the status of projects. (work in progress)
- Explore the Wiki on the basis of books (and book-like stuff we do). (work in progress)
- Explore the Wiki on the basis of common questions and needs. (work in progress)
- The Categories form a kind of Directory or Index for the Wiki. Categories allow you to find information grouped into broad subject areas, such as Content Providing, Post-processing, Project Coordination, and Uberprojects.
- Searching for a simple term or topic using the search box may take you to a basic definition page for that term. That definition page will likely have links to more in-depth information.
- The All Articles page allows you to view alphabetical lists of all pages in the Wiki.
- The Recent Changes page is for the Wiki what the View Unread Posts page is for the Forums.