Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/May 2022

Monthly Challenge

May 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

February

Pages processed: 6976
- (348% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4029
Pages validated: 2677

March

Pages processed: 6392
- (319% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4718
Pages validated: 1351

April

Pages processed: 5928
- (296% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4123
Pages validated: 1488

May

Pages processed: 6306
- (315% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4575
Pages validated: 1521

June

Pages processed: 5155
- (257% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2967
Pages validated: 1816

July

Pages processed: 4723
- (236% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2888
Pages validated: 1681

August

Pages processed: 4666
- (233% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3149
Pages validated: 1357

September

Pages processed: 4638
- (231% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3602
Pages validated: 929

October

Pages processed: 5694
- (284% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4280
Pages validated: 1237

November

Pages processed: 4106
- (205% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2895
Pages validated: 995

December

Pages processed: 3876
- (193% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2868
Pages validated: 787

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	73	60	154	154
2	273	68	353	507
3	129	27	156	663
4	113	37	150	813
5	184	36	220	1033
6	201	159	361	1394
7	229	46	293	1687
8	170	57	227	1914
9	250	52	345	2259
10	409	51	470	2729
11	125	32	170	2899
12	140	37	183	3082
13	197	14	217	3299
14	181	135	373	3672
15	301	62	365	4037
16	88	66	154	4191
17	68	55	123	4314
18	66	30	97	4411
19	78	40	118	4529
20	108	49	157	4686
21	80	65	145	4831
22	175	30	206	5037
23	99	5	109	5146
24	54	10	64	5210
25	74	8	82	5292
26	39	15	54	5346
27	153	18	171	5517
28	163	40	204	5721
29	165	49	224	5945
30	117	158	278	6223
31	73	10	83	6306
Avg.	148	49		203
Total	4575	1521		6306

May 2022[edit]

Works in current challenge: 92
Total pages in current challenge: 31785
Average processed pages per day this month: 203
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

Guidelines[edit]

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[edit]

If you've worked on a page, but don't have time to finish, please save your work as Not Proofread.
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.
Once you have finished proofreading a page, make sure to mark it as Proofread.
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[edit]

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).
Use {{ppoem}} for formatting poems. Separate verses with a blank line.
Mark the spot where an image should go with {{missing image}}, a table with {{missing table}} and other alphabets with {{Language characters}}.
Add a blank line between each paragraph.
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[edit]

Easy – These works have good OCR and have simple formatting consisting mainly of font sizes, bold, italics, centering, and a Table of Contents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.