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Monthly Challenge

December 2021

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.

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  • Pages processed: 3122
    • (156% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1521
  • Pages validated: 1145
  • Pages processed: 2051
    • (102% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1013
  • Pages validated: 936
  • Pages processed: 1964
    • (98% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1236
  • Pages validated: 648
  • Pages processed: 1701
    • (85% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1136
  • Pages validated: 507
  • Pages processed: 2606
    • (130% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 1564
  • Pages validated: 891
  • Pages processed: 3672
    • (183% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2374
  • Pages validated: 1129
  • Pages processed: 6079
    • (303% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3607
  • Pages validated: 2275
  • Pages processed: 7056
    • (352% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3970
  • Pages validated: 2864
Daily statistics
Day under 100
Day over 200
DayPVPagesTotal
117559358358
217281255613
3120104233846
4192722641110
5329844161526
62361083761902
7189812732175
8115601752350
990671572507
10109992092716
11932002933009
121291702993308
13152622153523
14181892713794
151931333344128
16961002064334
171111262384572
18128572004772
19961562545026
2056501065132
21110721845316
22771211985514
23772092865800
2472681405940
25731602336173
2699881876360
2785251146474
28113571716645
29104391436788
30100331366924
3198341327056
Avg.12892228
Total397028647056

December 2021

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  • Works in current challenge: 65
  • Total pages in current challenge: 24668
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 228
  • 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
Under 50 pages: to proofread

The Apostle George Moore (Periodicals) USA 1923

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Orley Farm (Volume 10) Anthony Trollope (Victorian Serial) UK 1861

To proofread (works added 2 months ago)
Under 50 pages: to validate

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Periodicals) UK 1892

To validate (works added 1 month ago)

The Gift of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois (African American History, Last Bits) USA 1924

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Children's Fiction, Second Glance) USA 1911

Shirley (Volume 2) Charlotte Brontë (Women Writers) UK 1849

Shirley (Volume 3) Charlotte Brontë (Women Writers) UK 1849

The Works of H.G. Wells (Volume 4) H. G. Wells (Science Fiction, Novels, Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1924

Completed works

Anthem Ayn Rand (Dystopian fiction, Top 100) USA 1953

Elizabeth Fry Emma Raymond Pitman (Women Writers) UK 1884

The Man with the Twisted Lip Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Periodicals) UK 1892

Negro poets and their poems Robert Thomas Kerlin (Harlem Renaissance, Poetry) USA 1923

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Orley Farm (Volume 8) Anthony Trollope (Victorian Serial) UK 1861

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Orley Farm (Volume 9) Anthony Trollope (Victorian Serial) UK 1861

The Railway Children Edith Nesbit (Adventure, Requested Texts, Children's) UK 1906

The Selling of Joseph Samuel Sewall (Anti-Slavery) USA 1700

Shirley (Volume 1) Charlotte Brontë (Women Writers) UK 1849

Tarzan and the Golden Lion Edgar Rice Burroughs (Adventure, Requested Texts) USA 1923

Valperga Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Women Writers) UK 1823