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Monthly Challenge

September 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
11240148148
210615128276
31117121397
42091217614
510118131745
671983828
718461901018
810841121130
973241001230
10150171671397
1124232451642
1211651211763
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148361051963
15801962059
16735852144
17925972241
186015852326
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21107131202596
2213081482744
2312371322876
2487141032979
2511691253104
26799883192
2713071373329
2888211183447
2910611103557
304930913648
Avg.10611122
Total31663213648

September 2023

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  • Works in current challenge: 72
  • Total pages in current challenge: 24897
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 122
  • 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

Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Autobiography) France 1782

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

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum (Images, Children's) US 1900

Under 50 pages: to proofread

The New Yorker (volume 1, issue 1) Various (Magazines, Current affairs) US 1925

To proofread (new works this month)

Boating Walter Bradford Woodgate (Requested texts, Sport) UK 1888

The Everlasting Man Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Religion, Celebrating the Public Domain) US 1925

Guns for gold - the Wagner Network exposed House of Commons (Current affairs, PMC Wagner Group) United Kingdom 2023

Xenophon Alexander Grant (Classics, History) Greece 1871

The blue poetry book Andrew Lang (Poetry, Children's) UK 1887

To proofread (works added 1 month ago)
To proofread (works added 2 months ago)
To validate (new works this month)

Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson (Requested texts, Novels) UK 1908

The Mortover Grange Affair Joseph Smith Fletcher (Novels, Celebrating the Public Domain) US 1927

To validate (works added 1 month ago)

Cornelli Johanna Spyri (Children's) Switzerland 1920

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

The Odyssey of Homer Homer (Classics) Greece 1902

So Big Edna Ferber (Novels, Pulitzer Prize) United States 1924