Statistics

Perl or Excel Experts Needed!

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If there are any experts out there in Perl or Excel, you would be greatly appreciated in helping us with PG statistical numbers; daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. We can provide data, and hopefully you can provide us with weekly, monthly or yearly totals for the Newsletters. If you would like a complete listing of […]

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Top Project Gutenberg Languages for Feb-2008

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Michael Hart mailed a ‘Top Listing’ for the various eBook languages posted to the Project Gutenberg archives, with the totals for each language included. As to be expected, English comes in at the top, French a clear second with over one thousand eBooks posted to the archives. With the great number of Chinese texts posted […]

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The 500th German Language Book Posted To Project Gutenberg!

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The German-language e-book producing community and the German Team at Distributed Proofreaders proudly present the 500th German e-book at Project Gutenberg! We hope you enjoy it, as well as all the other German books we’ve posted so far, and you will be looking forward to the next 500 books as much as we do! (Die […]

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End of 2007 PG Statistics

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Another year is over for Project Gutenberg and as always it has been a busy one. Although we started out a little slow we had a great charge in the last few months, yet again our volunteers posted over four thousands new titles. We hit some impressive milestones along the way and also welcomed some […]

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What should be the 25,000th PG eBook?

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There are only 250 eBooks to go before the combined Gutenberg projects reach the quarter century! Project Gutenberg U.S. currently has 22,716, while the unique posts to Project Gutenberg Australia, Europe and Canada have 1,555, 67 & 26 respectively. Add in the 386 PrePrints and we currently have 24,750 total eBooks in the PG archives. […]

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Changes to the Newsletter counting system

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This is only a minor change but should bring the PG count into line with the other gutneberg projects. I am going to start taking the count for the week NOT including the Wednesday of the Newsletter. So, each day is taken as a whole (Wed = 00:00 to 23:59). This weeks count is taken […]

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Project Runeberg: Proofreading Activity Graphs

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Since you seldom hear anything from Project Runeberg, you might have concluded that we’re dead now. But this is wrong. Even though less books are added, we still have people actively proofreading the pages we scanned before. Compared to PGDP.net, our system is more wiki-like (less workflow oriented) and our volunteer proofreaders can jump to […]

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Project Gutenberg 23.5k Milestone [ASCII Graph Included]

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Project Gutenberg passes another eBooks milestone today, over 23,500 eBooks that have been created by the Project Gutenberg army of volunteers. . . . !!!!!!!My HUGE Congratulations to all the volunteers!!!!!!! This is including over 1500 contributions from Project Gutenberg Australia, and about 500 from Project Gutenberg Europe, but DOES NOT INCLUDE well over 75,000 […]

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Congratulations to PG of Australia on their 1500th eBook

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Congratulations to Project Gutenberg Australia for reaching eBook number #1500. Here are some words from both Colin Choat and Michael Hart. Milestones at Project Gutenberg of Australia Recently we added ebook #1500 to our collection. One does not usually single out a volunteer for mention but it seems appropriate on this occasion. Significantly, the ebook […]

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Distributed Proofreaders Announce 10,000th eBook

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! In a serious move to release eBooks in a number of fields on this momentous occasions, The Distributed Proofreaders have surpassed the great milestone of 10,000 eBooks, long thought to be dividing line between feasibility study and the real thing. Well, Distributed Proofreaders is definitely a real thing in terms of being one of […]

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DP PRESS RELEASE: DP Releases 10,000th Book

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Today the Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (DP) posted a package of texts that takes us over 10,000 completed titles. I’m very proud of our community of volunteers who have accomplished this fantastic number. The 10K package (listed below) showcases the wide range of our volunteers’ interests and talents. There are examples of a number of […]

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