UPDATE, Sunday May 29th

carolynwhite2 carolynwhite2 at aol.com
Sun May 29 20:47:53 UTC 2005


PROGRESS
As of today we have catalogued 56561 posts, and rejected 30974 of 
them (54.7% - up 0.1% from last week!!).

Historically, we have passed the 50 000 post mark on the main list - 
sometimes never thought we'd get there; currently up to post 50300.

This week, with six people coding we did 1169 posts.

We have also completed 2 more reviews, bringing the total done to 54 
out of 106 sections.

CODING ERRORS
Could you look at the reject status on:

Dot - 38640
Debbie - 47564

MISC queries:

Ginger:
Any thoughts on this? We are coming up on the time when speculation
will be running rampant, and I think we need to define (or at least
come to some general agreement) on what is a prediction and should be 
coded and what is to be rejected. What do you all think?

Carolyn:
Boyd has provided a careful series of definitions for what goes in 
predictions, see Humungous Catalogue Definition files part 1, Text 
analysis in file section (a Word file).

Ginger:
I also rejected a lot of "who owns the Riddle house" posts, but I ran 
into a concern there. There were a few that I wanted to code, but 
only found the Riddle house under Geography. The description in the 
heading said only to code about location, not about what happened 
there, but I checked and found that of the 12 posts in that category, 
most were about who owned the Riddle house, so I went and added my 2 
or 3 more to that. Should I have done that? Or is there a better way?

Carolyn:
This was the right thing to do, or at least that's how I use that 
code as well. There's no other easy place right now. I think we might 
have to change the definition of the main section from just Geography 
to something else eventually.

Kelly (about JKR's notebook symbols):
I don't know. The symbols for sex and house affiliation were known at 
the outset; the other symbol was up for debate and most concluded 
that it referred to pureblood, halfblood, or muggle-born. I was 
thinking either "3.5.2 Purebloods & half bloods" or "3.16.0 Hogwarts -
 General". Yes, no?

Carolyn:
I don't think we have a 'Hogwarts' general' code anymore, do we? 
Anyway, of the two I think 3.5.2 is better, but on the other hand, we 
don't know that's what the symbol means for sure.






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