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Monthly Challenge

February 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


  • Pages processed: ~2025
    • (~67% of 3000)
  • Pages proofread: 1371
  • Pages validated: 569


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Daily statistics
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DayPVPagesTotal
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2392667216
311323166382
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79856162964
884241091073
9130421831256
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121291052351929
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Avg.11043161
Total13715692025

February 2025

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  • Works in current challenge: 70
  • Total pages in current challenge: 22626
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 161
  • 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 proofread (new works this month)

The Blue Castle Lucy Maud Montgomery (Women Writers) Canada 1926

Caroling Dusk Countee Cullen (Black History Month, Poetry) USA 1927

Don Quixote (volume 1) Miguel de Cervantes (Mainspace clean up) Spain 1885

Laughing Boy Oliver La Farge (Native Americans) US 1929

The Magic Island William Seabrook (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1929

The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner (Celebrating the Public Domain) US 1929

To proofread (works added 1 month ago)

The American Language Henry Louis Mencken (Linguistics, Mainspace clean up) US 1923

Gods' Man Lynd Ward (Celebrating the Public Domain) US 1929

The New York Times Various (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1929

Toad of Toad Hall Alan Alexander Milne (Celebrating the Public Domain) UK 1929

Under 50 pages: to proofread
To validate (new works this month)

Europe after 8:15 Henry Louis Mencken (Mainspace Clean-Up) US 1914

The Green Pastures Marc Connelly (Celebrating the Public Domain, Pulitzers) US 1929

To validate (works added 1 month ago)

Cup of Gold John Steinbeck (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1929

A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway (Celebrating the Public Domain) USA 1929

Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse (Celebrating the Public Domain) Germany 1929

Street Scene Elmer Rice (Celebrating the Public Domain, Pulitzers) US 1929

To validate (works added 2 months ago)

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy (Validation) Russia 1899

The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes (Newbery Medal winner) US 1923

Propaganda Edward Bernays (Public domain, Requested texts) US 1928

Tussock Land Arthur Henry Adams (Requested texts) New Zealand 1904

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli (Previous nomination) UK 1827

War of the Classes Jack London (Mainspace clean-up) US 1905