When I generated the
transcription request sticky, I put a lot of thought into suggesting that contributers use a standard format that would give them credit if their work was copied and pasted into the WoJ archive.
When I archive these contributions I always edit the ones that don't give themselves credit so that credit is there, and part of the motivation for that is that I always feared that the project could increase the forum server workload with the sheer volume of text in these posts in a way not unlike the
Mega-topics we are asked to avoid.
Part of any extra load would be due most of this volume duplicative, being in both the request sticky, and in the archive. So if my fears are founded, and the sheer volume of all these transcripts is a less than negligible load on the servers, deleting a portion of the now archived transcripts might be worth doing by the administration. Also, if this is the case I'll also go back and clean out some of my old WoJ compilation updates that duplicated the text I put into the compilation proper.
I could be worrying about nothing, but I don't want my WoJ zeal to have a negative impact on the server
