Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/December 2025

Monthly Challenge

December 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	115	3	188	188
2	73	23	111	299
3	65	55	127	426
4	78	46	139	565
5	72	21	93	658
6	74	74	162	820
7	174	70	245	1065
8	122	53	202	1267
9	94	67	164	1431
10	67	137	205	1636
11	78	13	91	1727
12	134	14	148	1875
13	72	107	179	2054
14	109	178	289	2343
15	86	150	236	2579
16	113	16	129	2708
17	127	70	198	2906
18	75	60	135	3041
19	62	42	104	3145
20	60	23	83	3228
21	64	55	119	3347
22	111	84	213	3560
23	61	79	152	3712
24	58	43	101	3813
25	61	41	105	3918
26	97	29	126	4044
27	22	84	106	4150
28	20	31	51	4201
29	23	55	80	4281
30	29	31	60	4341
31	20	60	82	4423
Avg.	78	59		143
Total	2416	1814		4423

December 2025

Works in current challenge: 60
Total pages in current challenge: 16458
Average processed pages per day this month: 143
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}}.