Help Wanted -- Walkthrough Proofreaders

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@Beren is our veteran walkthrough writer, with a number of popular and detailed walkthroughs and guides published (e.g. PoE, Wizardry 6-7-8, DA:O, etc.). Currently, he needs some help with proofreading a few walkthroughs that he has in progress. One that has been partially proofread halfway through is the draft walkthrough for Pillars of Eternity 2. He has also drafted another, more subjective guide for PoE2 that goes more in depth into strategies and character builds and that includes Youtube videos of gameplay.

A large part of the work is proofreading, checking links, typos, spelling/grammar mistakes and so on. But Beren is also receptive to feedback as to the content of the walkthroughs themselves, and will often give credit when he includes points raised that he himself did not originally consider during his initial drafts.

It is a significant commitment, as he has more projects either in progress or planned for the future. For example, he is currently working on a guide for Siege of Dragonspear. He also has plans for walkthroughs for the Pathfinder games, and perhaps Baldur's Gate 3 as well.

But the commitment is one that can be handled with around 15 minutes or so a day. You would proofread and link check a couple of pages a day, and post your feedback to our Workshop forum thread. There will also be time gaps where Beren will take considerable time drafting the next walkthrough, which will give any proof readers significant breaks until the next draft is ready.

Members that will help with finalizing the walkthroughs will receive credits and acknowledgement, and perhaps other benefits as well.

To qualify as a proofreader, you should posses these qualities:

• Good grasp of the English language, and the ability to write well.
• An eye for proper capitalization, punctuation, spelling and grammar.
• Attention to detail, patience and persistence.
• Enough free time on your hands to be able to proofread on a regular basis.
• Intimate knowledge of the games covered in the walkthroughs is not required, but would be a huge plus.

If you're up for it, please send me a PM with a short description of your skills and why you'd like to help and we'll go from there. In case of multiple applicants, I'll try to select the most suitable candidate. If possible, we'll see about working with multiple proofreaders at once as well.

 

If you can copy what she sends you and then paste in the Workshop threads, that might work. @Taluntain what do you think?

 

You won't see them unless and until Tal gives access to the Workshop forum. It's a forum created solely for proofreading the walkthroughs I write.

 

I don't think that doing this on a mobile and then Sorvo having to do all the back and forth would be sensible or practical, to be honest. The proofreader needs to be able to give and receive direct feedback, and all the text correction, manipulation, copy/pasting and walkthrough content viewing and proofreading would be extremely tedious and impractical to do on a mobile so I can't see anyone doing that on a regular basis that way.

But if she actually managed to do all that on a mobile, I don't see why she couldn't just copy/paste it into the Workshop herself as well. But as I said, I don't think that this would be practical enough for her not to be overly tedious, so while I appreciate Wookie's offer to help, I believe that attempting to do this via a mobile wouldn't really work for her or for us. If this was only a few pages of text it'd be different, but here we do need a proofreader with a proper working environment so that doing this on a long(er)-term basis doesn't quickly become a chore for them.

@dmc has been doing a great job with this for a number of years, but unfortunately due to personal circumstances he currently isn't able to continue helping out.

 

Thanks for taking one for the team if you're willing. Tal?

 

That might work, until Sorvo changes his mind about sharing his PC. We can give it a shot and see how it goes.

 

Ok, to make this work, do we give Workshop access to Sorvo's account or Wookie's?

 

I assume Wookie's, so she can interact with her account directly. I'll set that up tomorrow.

 

That's what I was wondering about, maybe Sorvo wants to stay logged into his account while she takes her turn on the PC? But it sounds like you trust her enough for that. Either way's good for me.

 

Ok, so I should give Sorvo's account access? Or will Wookie log in with her account? Any browser can store multiple logins, so it's just a matter of logging out of one and logging in with another if she chose to use her own account. Neither her nor Sorvo would have to manually type in their logins, just make a couple of clicks to switch accounts.

 

Maybe give access to both accounts, for the sake of flexiblity?