Wikisource:Proofread of the Month

Wikisource:Proofread of the Month

Each month, the Wikisource community will choose a text that needs to be proofread. The purpose of this project is to increase the number of proofread texts on Wikisource and to help improve the overall quality of the project.

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The current Proofread of the Month is Balthasar Hübmaier  (1905) by Henry Clay Vedder. Last month completed: Natural History, Birds The next scheduled collaboration will begin in July.

Works requiring validation

1. Index:Last of the tasmanians.djvu (400pp)
2. Index:Tales of two countries.djvu (204 pp)
3. Index:Popular Science Monthly Volume 11.djvu (~700pp)
4. Index:Machiavelli, Romanes Lecture, 2 June 1897.djvu (Romanes Lecture, 63pp)

Alternatively randomly have a page selected that requires validation.

Past Collaborations

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  Natural History, Birds by Philip Henry Gosse

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  A Treasury of South African Poetry and Verse edited by Edward Heath Crouch

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  The Romance of Nature by Louisa Anne Twamley

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  Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards

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  Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  The Cycle Industry by W. F. Grew

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  Mr. Punch's Book of Sports

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  English As She Is Spoke by Pedro Carolino

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  Japanese flower arrangement by Mary Averill

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  Tensing Exercises by Edward Barrett Warman

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  How to Write a Short Story by Leslie Quirk

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  The Early English Organ Builders and their work by Edward Francis Rimbault

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  Evolution of the Thermometer by Henry Carrington Bolton

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  The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

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  The American Indian by Clark Wissler

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  The European Concert in the Eastern Question by Thomas Erskine Holland

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  Climatic Cycles and Tree-Growth by Andrew Ellicott Douglass

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  The Oak: An Introduction to Forest-Botany by Harry Marshall Ward

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  A Wayfarer in China by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

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  A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica by James Hakewill

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  Twilight by Julia Frankau

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  Life of Octavia Hill as told in her letters by Octavia Hill

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  Homes of the London Poor by Octavia Hill

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  Our Common Land (and other short essays) by Octavia Hill

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  The Corsair by George Gordon Byron

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  The Merry Muses of Caledonia collected by Robert Burns

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  Sawdust and Spangles by William Cameron Coup

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  Natural History, Mollusca by Philip Henry Gosse

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  A Desk-Book of Errors in English by Frank Horace Vizetelly

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  A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery by Jean Wilde Clark

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  Yule Logs edited by George Alfred Henty

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  English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the nineteenth century by Graham Everitt

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  Ninety-three by Victor Hugo

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  The World's Famous Orations (Ireland)

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  Picturesque New Guinea by John William Lindt

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  Picturesque Nepal by Percy Brown

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  The Life of Michael Angelo by Romain Rolland

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  The fairy tales of science by John Cargill Brough

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  The Female Prose Writers of America by John Seely Hart

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  The Art of Bookbinding by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf

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  The Harvard Classics; Lectures on The Harvard Classics, Volume 51 by Charles William Eliot and William Allen Neilson

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  Our American Holidays - Christmas by Robert Haven Schauffler

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  The Fables of Florian by Florian

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  Triangles of life, and other stories by Henry Lawson

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  Picturesque New Zealand by David Paul Gooding

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  The Elizabethan People by Henry Thew Stephenson

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  Persia by Frederic Shoberl

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  Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and other profitable tales by Anatole France

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  Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

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  Bull-dog Drummond by Herman Cyril McNeile

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  The Craftsmanship of Writing by Frederic Taber Cooper

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  Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

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  The Passenger Pigeon by William Butts Mershon

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  Handel by Romain Rolland

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  The Suspension of Habeas Corpus during the War of the Rebellion by Sydney G. Fisher

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  Lundy's Lane Battle by Sir Gordon Drummond

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  On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether by Albert Abraham Michelson and Edward Morley

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  M. K. Gandhi: Indian Patriot in South Africa by Joseph J. Doke

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  Frontiers by George Curzon

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  The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 by José Guillermo Hay

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  The Perth gazette and Western Australian journal, Volume 1, Number 2 by Charles Macfaull (editor)

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  Law and Authority by
  Peter Kropotkin

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  The Myth of Occam's Razor by William M. Thorburn

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  Notes on equitation and horse training translation by George H. Cameron

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  An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills (UK, 1837)

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  Seven Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings

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  The Martyrdom of Ferrer by Joseph McCabe

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  Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  CORSETS: An Analysis by Emma E. Goodwin

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  Cakes, Cookies and Confections by
  The California Home Economics Association

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  A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Plato or Protagoras? by F.C.Schiller

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  The Idea of Progress by William Ralph Inge

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  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

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  Old-Time Recipes for Home Made Wines Cordials and Liqueurs by Helen S. Wright

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  Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey by Arthur Hussey

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  The English Constitution (1894) by Walter Bagehot

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  A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 1 by George Grove

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  Omnibuses and Cabs by Henry Charles Moore

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  A Brief History of Modern Philosophy by Harald Høffding

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  Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists by Roger L'Estrange

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  Popular Science Monthly #86 (1915) by Various Authors

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  Lays of Marie de France by
  Marie de France.

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  Poems (1890) by
  Emily Dickinson.

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  On the Vital Principle (1855) by
  Aristotle.

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  The Pilgrim Cook Book (1921) by
  Pilgrim Ladies' Aid Society

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  Equitation by Henry L. de Bussigny

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  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame