Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/August 2025

Monthly Challenge

August 2025

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: 5726
- (190% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3888
Pages validated: 1642

February

Pages processed: 4208
- (140% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2743
Pages validated: 1353

March

Pages processed: 2999
- (99% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2301
Pages validated: 581

April

Pages processed: 4273
- (142% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2222
Pages validated: 1957

May

Pages processed: 3772
- (125% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1885
Pages validated: 1687

June

Pages processed: 3707
- (123% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2277
Pages validated: 1329

July

Pages processed: 4303
- (143% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2889
Pages validated: 1198

August

Pages processed: 4258
- (141% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3063
Pages validated: 1080

September

Pages processed: 4366
- (145% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2613
Pages validated: 1643

October

Pages processed: 4327
- (144% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3028
Pages validated: 881

November

Pages processed: 3621
- (120% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2205
Pages validated: 1031

December

Pages processed: 4423
- (147% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2416
Pages validated: 1814

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	78	63	204	204
2	86	32	122	326
3	84	47	131	457
4	57	46	104	561
5	114	18	132	693
6	152	37	197	890
7	46	22	68	958
8	79	17	103	1061
9	84	14	99	1160
10	162	57	219	1379
11	125	31	157	1536
12	202	19	226	1762
13	120	9	130	1892
14	158	48	206	2098
15	100	12	112	2210
16	286	28	320	2530
17	146	29	185	2715
18	37	32	69	2784
19	91	29	122	2906
20	186	59	251	3157
21	123	59	182	3339
22	57	49	106	3445
23	26	34	60	3505
24	77	49	127	3632
25	66	43	109	3741
26	9	11	20	3761
27	66	11	77	3838
28	80	37	117	3955
29	32	92	124	4079
30	76	36	112	4191
31	58	10	67	4258
Avg.	99	35		137
Total	3063	1080		4258

August 2025

Works in current challenge: 59
Total pages in current challenge: 17410
Average processed pages per day this month: 137
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

Guidelines

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

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

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}}.