Spanish Copyediting Setup

[acrymble]

Now that we have conducted a trial of copyediting in English (#1381), I'd like to work with the Spanish team to do the same for them. Especially because some of our Patreon sponsorship comes from Spanish colleagues!

At the moment, a Styleguide is only available in English and it was externally funded: https://programminghistorian.org/en/author-guidelines.

Rather than translate this directly, I believe it is best for someone with advanced Spanish grammar knowledge to use it as a guide, but to create something appropriate for the Spanish publication. I believe this should be paid work, and would benefit from someone internal to the team doing the work. However, I will leave it up to the Spanish Team to decide what is best.

@rivaquiroga can you please discuss with your team how we might best proceed? I will then work with you to find the money or persons to conduct this work, and ensure that we integrate it effectively with our editorial processes. We will not be able to do Spanish copyediting until we have this styleguide finished and approved.

[jenniferisasi]

Quick note to say that we are discussing via email.

[acrymble]

Just for information purposes, I have contacted the public relations firm that created our English styleguide to see if they can work also in Spanish, and to ask what the cost of doing this work for us would be. I will report back when I know. There is no obligation to proceed, but I think it's important for us to know the options.

[rivaquiroga]

Thanks. We are curently discussing the details. We want one of the team members to be leading this task.

[acrymble]

The quote to get this work done professionally is £1350. @rivaquiroga tell me what you think in terms of whether or not you a) want me to get another quote. b) think this quote is reasonable. or c) want to do this yourselves?

[rivaquiroga]

I'll discuss this with the Spanish team and reach you back

[jenniferisasi]

The quote to get this work done professionally is £1350.

Out of curiosity @acrymble was that the price for the work in English?

[acrymble]

No it was £1800

[acrymble]

@rivaquiroga it would also help me to know what timeline you would like to try to achieve for having this in place so that we can copyedit new Spanish lessons. Are you hoping to have this ready soon? By mid-year? End-of-year? Then I can help coordinate to your schedule.

[rivaquiroga]

@acrymble, by mid-year.

[acrymble]

Just an update that @rivaquiroga and I have had some conversations about this and the Spanish team is still finalizing their plan, but it seems like they will build a styleguide themselves.