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Monthly Challenge

August 2023

Welcome to the Monthly Challenge!

  • Each month, the challenge aims to proofread and validate several texts.
  • It provides a safe space for new users to learn about Wikisource.
  • The texts are featured for a maximum of three months with a few exceptions.
  • The challenge builds Wikisource's core collection and makes free, scan-backed ebooks accessible to everyone.
  • Pages processed: 6108
    • (305% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4033
  • Pages validated: 1804
  • Pages processed: 4393
    • (219% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3275
  • Pages validated: 990
  • Pages processed: 4690
    • (234% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3310
  • Pages validated: 1257
  • Pages processed: 3725
    • (186% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2044
  • Pages validated: 1641
  • Pages processed: 2726
    • (136% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1881
  • Pages validated: 768
  • Pages processed: 3629
    • (181% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2271
  • Pages validated: 1261
  • Pages processed: 3179
    • (158% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2137
  • Pages validated: 956
  • Pages processed: 3744
    • (187% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3008
  • Pages validated: 588
  • Pages processed: 3648
    • (182% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3166
  • Pages validated: 321
  • Pages processed: 3646
    • (182% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2131
  • Pages validated: 1418
  • Pages processed: 4059
    • (135% of 3000)
  • Pages proofread: 3522
  • Pages validated: 487
  • Pages processed: 3738
    • (120% of 3100)
  • Pages proofread: 2827
  • Pages validated: 720
Daily statistics
Day under 100
Day over 200
DayPVPagesTotal
112427163163
29413123286
332311334620
411833151771
5888110881
6112291411022
7116151331155
890261161271
94934931364
1075481231487
112427661553
1267351131666
13381501716
143631671783
1598351381921
1684381212042
1765571222164
18151381892353
192610612414
206510832497
21136101492646
22583722718
2315641602878
24765812959
2513001303089
263411513140
2712121233263
2813661423405
2910971163521
3016501653686
314414583744
Avg.9719121
Total30085883744

August 2023

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  • Works in current challenge: 64
  • Total pages in current challenge: 23885
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 121
  • Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Guidelines

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Welcome to this month's challenge. For a general overview of proofreading at Wikisource, see Help:Beginner's guide to proofreading. The challenge has a few special guidelines and tips for new users.

Guidelines, tips and information

Guidelines

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  1. If you've worked on a page, but don't have time to finish, please save your work as Not Proofread.
  2. If you encounter a difficulty such as a table, missing image, or a different alphabet, please mark the page as Problematic and an experienced editor will review it.
  3. Once you have finished proofreading a page, make sure to mark it as Proofread.
  4. Validation requires a careful checking of the proofread text to make sure that the formatting and spelling match the original. Be sure to read and follow the guidelines in Help:Beginner's guide to validation. Once you finish validating a page, mark it as Validated.
    • Do not use spell-check to validate, as many older works use non-standard spellings. Even if there is a mistake in the original, transcribe it as-is.

Tips

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  1. Many books published before 1820 feature a long s (ſ). Replace those with {{ls}} to yield s (its appearance is changed by the Visibility gadget).
  2. Use {{ppoem}} for formatting poems. Separate verses with a blank line.
  3. Mark the spot where an image should go with {{missing image}}, a table with {{missing table}} and other alphabets with {{Language characters}}.
  4. Add a blank line between each paragraph.
  5. For images, use the following format:
{{img float
 | file = name of the image file
 | cap = The caption
 | align = left/center/right
 | alt = A description for those with different visual abilities.
 | width = How wide the image is: e.g. 500px
}}
For more information, see {{img float}}.

Difficulty Levels

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  1. Easy – These works have good OCR and have simple formatting consisting mainly of font sizes, bold, italics, centering, and a Table of Contents.
  2. Average – These works have references and indexes in addition to the formatting of Easy texts. In addition, there language tends to be more academic or contain dialectical English.
  3. Last Bits – This category could use a better name, but the idea is that this is an Index that has mostly been proofread, but a few more challenging pages remain.
  4. Second Glance - This category is for works that appears to have been proofread once, but require a careful look to make sure that the text matches the scan.
  5. Formatting – This category is for Indexes imported from another site that also does proofread, but wishes not to be named. They are fully proofread, but require checking to make sure that all the formatting is there. All pages will require the addition of header and footers. However, most pages will require no other work.
  6. Transclusion – These works have been fully proofread, but remain untranscluded. They are a great place for a user to learn about transclusion and reduce the backlog.

Challenge texts

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To fix

A Culture of Copyright Andrea Wallace (Copyright law, Final push) United Kingdom 2022

Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson Francis W. Hirst (American history, Celebrating the public domain) United States 1926

Under 50 pages: to proofread
To proofread (works added 1 month ago)
To validate (new works this month)

Cornelli Johanna Spyri (Children's) Switzerland 1920

Lesbia Newman Henry Robert Samuel Dalton (Novels, Requested texts) United Kingdom 1889

To validate (works added 1 month ago)