In a 2022 DLF Forum session on crowdsourcing, one of the speakers (whose name I didn't record) said "avoid the cardinal sin of asking volunteers to do work that you will never use".
I took that to heart, as I was then managing a crowdsourced project where people had done so much work that we had a large backlog to review. So I'm very happy to report that the backlog is now cleared, and all their work is freely available and usable online! Here's what we accomplished: https://everybodyslibraries.com/2024/08/13/milestones-for-the-deep-backfile-project/
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