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This is a topic that comes up all too often in comments, lambasting editors or praising them.
As it stands, editorial is a black box, they accept submissions, fettle them, then they appear as stories. Recently, the Original Submission link appeared on stories so you can see what went in and what appeared out of that black box, yet still the complaints come.
Just how much transparency is necessary? (This is an open question not rhetorical)
I like to believe that SoylentNews is the people that form it as a community, and the editing should reflect that.
Should we adopt some version control for subs so everyone can see who edited what through the pipeline that goes from sub to front page?
Thoughts on a postcard please.
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(Score: 2) by TLA on Friday May 29 2015, @10:59AM
Hi fellas, sorry I've not been around (major hardware issues), but my 2c:
I used to help out on the IRC bookz scene scanning OCRing and proofreading etexts. What we did was a strict version control where:
0.5 was raw scan and first draft OCR (usually electronic);
0.6 was first pass proof comparison between the OCR'd text and the original scan, with basic errors (mis-scanned letters corrected, etc);
0.7 was formatting and indentation;
0.8 was second pass proof comparison
0.9 was final cleanup and stitching
1.0 was the final, consolidated product.
With large works such as the Harry Potter series, we had one scanner/OCR for 0.5 and a large group of proofreaders for 0.6-0.8, back to the scanner for 0.9 and to the scene channel for 1.0 release. The system worked so well we had the entire HP5 book scanned, proofed to perfection and the 1.0 etext in postscript released seven hours after release - with not a single error in the text. I think we might even have made the news with that one...
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