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Monthly Challenge

January 2022

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: 7257
    • (362% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4385
  • Pages validated: 2517
  • Pages processed: 6976
    • (348% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4029
  • Pages validated: 2677
  • Pages processed: 6392
    • (319% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4718
  • Pages validated: 1351
  • Pages processed: 5928
    • (296% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4123
  • Pages validated: 1488
  • Pages processed: 6306
    • (315% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4575
  • Pages validated: 1521
  • Pages processed: 5155
    • (257% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2967
  • Pages validated: 1816
  • Pages processed: 4723
    • (236% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2888
  • Pages validated: 1681
  • Pages processed: 4666
    • (233% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3149
  • Pages validated: 1357
  • Pages processed: 4638
    • (231% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 3602
  • Pages validated: 929
  • Pages processed: 5694
    • (284% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 4280
  • Pages validated: 1237
  • Pages processed: 4106
    • (205% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2895
  • Pages validated: 995
  • Pages processed: 3876
    • (193% of 2000)
  • Pages proofread: 2868
  • Pages validated: 787
Daily statistics
Day under 100
Day over 200
DayPVPagesTotal
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217156242514
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4211432941272
5209512711543
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246518836113
2586561426255
2690281236378
2757871446522
28531041616683
2991241216804
30842583447148
3167421097257
Avg.14181234
Total438525177257

January 2022

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  • Works in current challenge: 80
  • Total pages in current challenge: 29026
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 234
  • 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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Under 50 pages: to proofread
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Orley Farm (Volume 12) Anthony Trollope (Victorian Serial) UK 1861

To proofread (new works this month)

Das Kapital Karl Marx (Transclusion) UK 1906

The History of Witchcraft and Demonology Montague Summers (Requested Texts, Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1926

The Incredulity of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1926

The Land of Mist Arthur Conan Doyle (Novels, Requested Texts, Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1925

Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

Notes on Democracy H. L. Mencken (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

The Plumed Serpent D.H. Lawrence (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1926

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward Lawrence (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1926

Show Boat Edna Ferber (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

Soldiers' Pay William Faulkner (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

Those Barren Leaves Aldous Huxley (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1925

The Torrents Of Spring Ernest Hemingway (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

We Yevgeny Zamyatin (Novels, Requested Texts, Celebrating the Public Domain) Ukraine 1924

Winnie-the-Pooh Alan Alexander Milne (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1926

Under 50 pages: to validate

Sand and Foam Kahlil Gibran (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

To validate (new works this month)

The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs (Adventure, Requested Texts) USA 1916

Imperialism Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Celebrating the Public Domain, Requested Texts) USSR 1926

Indian Thoroughfares Archer Butler Hulbert (Native American History) USA 1902

Margaret Fuller Julia Ward Howe (Transclusion) UK 1883

My Mortal Enemy Willa Cather (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1926

The Mystery of Words Ralcy H. Bell (Transclusion) UK 1924

Wage Labor and Capital Karl Marx (Transclusion) UK 1900

Woman in Art Geneva Armstrong (Transclusion) UK 1900

To validate (works added 2 months ago)

The American Novel Carl Van Doren (Literary Criticism, Easy) USA 1921

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

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