Editing Distributed Proofreaders (section)

== History ==

Distributed Proofreaders was founded by Charles Franks in 2000 as an independent site to assist [[Project Gutenberg]].<ref>{{cite book
 | first=Lawrence | last=Lessig | year=2009
 | title=Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
 | page=109 | publisher=Penguin | isbn=978-0-14-311613-4
 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7eRPKIvEo9gC&pg=PT109
}}</ref> Distributed Proofreaders became an official Project Gutenberg site in 2002.

On 8 November 2002, Distributed Proofreaders was [[Slashdot effect|slashdotted]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Volunteers%27_Voices#Suzanne_Shell|title=Gutenberg:Volunteers' Voices|publisher=[[Project Gutenberg]]|access-date=2008-07-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918202824/http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Volunteers%27_Voices#Suzanne_Shell|archive-date=2008-09-18|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boingboing.net/2002/11/12/distributed-proofrea.html|title=Distributed Proofreading's slashdotting|date=12 November 2002 |publisher=[[Boing Boing]]|access-date=2008-07-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109001542/http://www.boingboing.net/2002/11/12/distributed-proofrea.html|archive-date=2007-11-09|url-status=live}}</ref> and more than 4,000 new members joined in one day, causing an influx of new proofreaders and software developers, which helped to increase the quantity and quality of e-text production. In July 2015, the 30,000th Distributed Proofreaders produced e-text was posted to Project Gutenberg. DP-contributed e-texts comprised more than half of works in Project Gutenberg, {{as of|2015|07|lc=on}}.

On 31 July 2006, the [[Distributed Proofreaders Foundation]] was formed to provide Distributed Proofreaders with its own legal entity and [[Non-profit organization|not-for-profit]] status. [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] approval of section [[501(c)|501(c)(3)]] status was granted retroactive to 7 April 2006.