Indexing ongoing projects

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » June 21st, 2019, 12:27 pm

Is there a way of sorting (or finding) the oldest ongoing projects? I'm willing to do some reading for these when I can.

I thought I'd set aside a morning once a month for this.

Post by **TriciaG** » June 21st, 2019, 12:57 pm

No, not really. You can sort each forum (at the bottom of the page) by post time, but that is for the most recent post, not the date the thread/post was started.

plaidsicle · Post by **plaidsicle** » June 21st, 2019, 1:37 pm

I'm not sure if this would work, but the advanced search in the LV catalog allows you to search only the in progress projects. maybe checking that box, setting it to sort by date, and leaving all search fields blank would show oldest-to-newest or vice versa?

Post by **TriciaG** » June 21st, 2019, 1:55 pm

That might work to a degree. Search for status=open, type=group.

Some will be out of order because we reuse old project numbers for projects that have been deleted.

Youl could also look at the March cleanup thread, although it hasn't been updated since the end of March: viewtopic.php?p=1561400#p1561400

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » June 21st, 2019, 1:57 pm

I'll see what I can do!

I have a few projects to finish first (before I get clobbered!)

Post by **annise** » June 21st, 2019, 3:22 pm

It's not quite what you asked, but you could go to the bottom of the readers wanted and see what would interest you, you can see when they were posted by checking the date under the BCs name. That would not only add a section to the project, it brings it into notice.

Anne

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » June 21st, 2019, 4:51 pm

annise wrote: ↑June 21st, 2019, 3:22 pm It's not quite what you asked, but you could go to the bottom of the readers wanted and see what would interest you, you can see when they were posted by checking the date under the BCs name. That would not only add a section to the project, it brings it into notice.

Anne

That's a good idea.

I was really hoping to help resurrect some 'forgotten' projects, but I think they are marked as abandoned (?) and stored, if at all, out of view.

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » June 21st, 2019, 4:54 pm

Stupid me. I just found the 'Abandoned Projects with some chapters recorded' thread. Maybe that's what I'll do.

Post by **TriciaG** » June 21st, 2019, 5:00 pm

I think our initial assumption of what you were doing is also a good idea - group projects that aren't abandoned, but that are seriously lagging for lack of readers.

Of course, usually they're lagging for a reason - long sections, hard-to-read text, etc.

Post by **annise** » June 22nd, 2019, 12:05 am

I agree, I notice that those readers who show signs of understanding LV will often pick up a few chapters from the bottom half of the list between Solos as their contribution to the common good. There would be some satisfaction in doing so

Anne

Post by **Kitty** » June 24th, 2019, 2:53 am

Kevin, just out of curiosity I checked all the current running projects (not abandoned) which had open sections still to claim, which were started before 2018. I would say these qualify as old.

I found a list of 20 projects, here they are (oldest first). You can see how many sections are still available, and if you (or anybody else) is tempted to help bring those to a close, that would be wonderful of course.

The projects are from all the subforums, so I included the dramatic works and the multilingual projects as well.

started: 24 December 2009
Dialogo dei massimi sistemi (Italian)
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=23117
11 of 59 (19%) sections assigned
7 of 59 (12%) sections completed

started: 12 December 2012
The Journal of John Woolman
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43453
8 of 14 (57%) sections assigned
7 of 14 (50%) sections completed

started: 02 May 2014
Histoire curieuse et pittoresque des sorciers, devins, magiciens, astrologues, voyants, revenants, âmes en peine, vampires, spectres, fantômes, apparitions, visions, gnomes, lutins, esprits malins, sorts jetés, exorcismes, etc., etc., etc. Depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours (French)
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=51865
28 of 30 (93%) sections assigned
26 of 30 (87%) sections completed

started: 06 April 2015
Naakt Model (Dutch, dramatic work)
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=56088
22 of 26 (85%) sections assigned
14 of 26 (54%) sections completed

started: 21 April 2015
The Count of Monte Cristo (dramatic work)
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=56293
751 of 911 (82%) sections assigned
520 of 911 (57%) sections completed

started: 15 August 2015
Scandinavian Fairy Tales - skandinaviska äventyr - skandinaviske eventyr (multilingual/Scandinavian languages)
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=57748
4 of 15 (27%) sections assigned
4 of 15 (27%) sections completed

started: 14 February 2016
Interessante Kriminal-Prozesse, Teil 2 (German)
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=59891
64 of 76 (84%) sections assigned
30 of 76 (39%) sections completed

started: 29 August 2016
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=62260
14 of 25 (56%) sections assigned
13 of 25 (52%) sections completed

started: 16 October 2016
Kinder- und Hausmärchen (German)
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=62523
98 of 212 (46%) sections assigned
92 of 212 (43%) sections completed

started: 31 October 2016
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=62764
45 of 58 (78%) sections assigned
39 of 58 (67%) sections completed

started: 08 March 2017
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=64377
9 of 11 (82%) sections assigned
7 of 11 (64%) sections completed

started: 26 March 2017
The Dream of the Red Chamber, Book II
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=64706
37 of 63 (59%) sections assigned
21 of 63 (33%) sections completed

started: 05 April 2017
Sentimental Education
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=64899
19 of 25 (76%) sections assigned
17 of 25 (68%) sections completed

started: 22 April 2017
The Deluge (vol 2)
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=65119
22 of 65 (34%) sections assigned
12 of 65 (18%) sections completed

started: 23 May 2017
Persuasión (Spanish)
viewtopic.php?f=60&t=65568
18 of 24 (75%) sections assigned
14 of 24 (58%) sections completed

started: 06 July 2017
Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury, Vol. I
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=66352
49 of 53 (92%) sections assigned
47 of 53 (89%) sections completed

started: 07 October 2017
Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright - A Study
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67676
11 of 12 (92%) sections assigned
10 of 12 (83%) sections completed

started: 22 October 2017
The Heavenly Twins
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67899
70 of 96 (73%) sections assigned
63 of 96 (66%) sections completed

started: 02 December 2017
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=68346
15 of 21 (71%) sections assigned
7 of 21 (33%) sections completed

Maybe there is something on the list that you like

Sonia

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » June 24th, 2019, 3:25 am

Kitty wrote: ↑June 24th, 2019, 2:53 am Kevin, just out of curiosity I checked all the current running projects (not abandoned) which had open sections still to claim, which were started before 2018. I would say these qualify as old.

I found a list of 20 projects, here they are (oldest first). You can see how many sections are still available, and if you (or anybody else) is tempted to help bring those to a close, that would be wonderful of course. The projects are from all the subforums, so I included the dramatic works and the multilingual projects as well.

[...]

Maybe there is something on the list that you like

Sonia

Thank you! I'll have a look!

Post by **Kitty** » June 24th, 2019, 3:27 am

KevinS wrote: ↑June 24th, 2019, 3:25 amThank you! I'll have a look!

super, I'm happy it helped. It was fun compiling the list.

Sonia