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Monthly Challenge

February 2026

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.
January
  • Pages processed: 5449
    • (181% of 3000)
  • Pages proofread: 3113
  • Pages validated: 1971


February
  • Pages processed: ~1996
    • (~66% of 3000)
  • Pages proofread: 1339
  • Pages validated: 386


March

Not started.

April

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May

Not started.

June

Not started.

July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Daily statistics
Day under 100
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DayPVPagesTotal
112380317317
28822141458
310633154612
414562217829
511539162991
6149261901181
796331361317
8113441681485
9147131721657
10125221661823
1110341271950
12298461996
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Avg.11934177
Total13393861996

February 2026

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  • Works in current challenge: 58
  • Total pages in current challenge: 16067
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 177
  • 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}}.

Challenge texts

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To proofread (new works this month)

Aeschylus, with an English translation (Volume 2) Aeschylus (Classical drama) Greece 1927

Charlie Chan Carries On Earl Derr Biggers (Celebrating the Public Domain, Detective fiction) US 1930

The Conflict of East and West in Egypt John Eliot Bowen (Political History) Egypt 1887

Constitution of Kenya (Constitutions, Scan-backing) Kenya 2010

De Turkey and de Law Zora Neale Hurston (Celebrating the Public Domain, Plays) US 1930

The House of Falling Leaves William Stanley Braithwaite (Poetry) US 1908

Irish Fairy Tales William Butler Yeats (Fairy Tales) Ireland 1892

The Merry Marauders Arthur John Rees (New Zealand, Novels) Australia 1913

The Mysterious Mr. Quin Agatha Christie (Celebrating the Public Domain, Short stories) UK 1930

Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes (Celebrating the Public Domain, Novels) US 1930

Sketches from Memory George Adolphus Storey (Autobiography) UK 1899

To proofread (works added 1 month ago)

Basque Legends Wentworth Webster and Julien Vinson (Folklore) the Basque Country 1877

Collected Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost (Celebrating the Public Domain, Poetry, Pulitzers) US 1930

Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Custody, Care, and Supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York Department of Justice (Current Affairs, Jeffrey Epstein) United States 2023

The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie (Celebrating the Public Domain, Mystery) UK 1930

United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967, part IV. B. 5. Department of Defense (Requested Texts) US 2011

To proofread (works added 2 months ago)

Amazing Stories, Vol. 1, No. 6 Hugo Gernsback (Science Fiction) US 1926

A History of Costume Carl Köhler (Requested texts) Germany 1928

Pan Knut Hamsun (Novels) Norway 1921

Poems (3rd edition) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Poetry) UK 1803

The Snakes of Europe George Albert Boulenger (Natural History, Requested Texts) Belgium 1913

St. Nicholas Book of Plays & Operettas (Second Series) (Children's literature, Plays) US 1916

A Yucatecan Grammar Joaquin Ruz (Languages of the Americas) Mexico 1847

To fix

History of Greece (Volume 1) George Grote (Requested Texts, Mainspace Clean-up) Greece 1880

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 (Volume 11) Portal:The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 (Western Colonialism) Philippines 1903

Under 50 pages: to proofread

Constitution Establishing Self-government in the Islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico (Constitutions) Cuba 1899

The Socialist Tradition in the French Revolution Harold Joseph Laski (Celebrating the Public Domain, History) UK 1930

To proofread (no expiry)

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (volume 1) Anonymous (Arabic, Children's)   1885

China: Its History, Arts and Literature (Volume 3) Francis Brinkley (Chinese Culture) China 1902

The Cowardly Lion of Oz Ruth Plumly Thompson (Children's) US 1923

Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (Volume 2) Portal:Early western travels, 1748-1846 (US History) US 1904

History of Greece (Volume 2) George Grote (Requested Texts, Mainspace Clean-up) Greece 1877

Lucretius William Hurrell Mallock (Classics) Rome 1878

National Geographic (Volume 2) Various (Periodicals, Geography, Photography) United States 1890

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 (Volume 12) Portal:The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 (Western Colonialism) Philippines 1903

Sacred Books of the East (Volume 7) Various (Requested Texts)   1880

Transcribed Interview of Taylor Budowich, (December 22, 2021) Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (United States Congress) United States 2021

The Works of H.G. Wells (Volume 11) H. G. Wells (Fiction) UK 1925

Works of Jules Verne (vol 3) Jules Verne (Novels, Adventure) France 1911

Under 50 pages: to validate

Psychological Reconstruction Inmate Epstein, Jeffrey (76318-054) Hugh J. Hurwitz (Current Affairs, Jeffrey Epstein) United States 2019

To validate (no expiry)

Deposition of Caroline Wren, (Dec. 17, 2021) Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (United States Congress) United States 2021

The Greek Anthology Charles Neaves (Classics) Greece 1875

To validate (new works this month)

I Am the American Negro Frank Marshall Davis (Validation, Poetry) US 1937

The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States Benjamin Griffith Brawley (American literature) US 1918

Remarks upon the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica William Beckford of Somerley (Validation, Slavery) Jamaica 1788

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons United Nations (Scan-backing) United Nations 2017

To validate (works added 1 month ago)

Aeschylus, with an English translation (Volume 1) Aeschylus (Classical drama) Greece 1927

Little Blacknose, the Story of a Pioneer Hildegarde Hoyt Swift (Newbery Books) US 1929

The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett (Celebrating the Public Domain, Dectective fiction) US 1930

Mountains Are Free Julia Davis Adams (Celebrating the Public Domain, Newbery Books) US 1930

Of the Nature of Things Titus Lucretius Carus (Validation, Philosophy) Rome 1916

Plume of the Arawas Frank Acheson (Celebrating the Public Domain, Novels) New Zealand 1930

The Secret of the Old Clock Carolyn Keene (Celebrating the Public Domain, Mystery) US 1930

Tarzan the Invincible Edgar Rice Burroughs (Adventure) US 1963

To validate (works added 2 months ago)

At The Front Herman Foston (Requested Texts) New Zealand 1921

Babell, a satirical poem Archibald Pitcairne (Poetry, Satire) Scotland 1830

The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus (Renaissance literature, Satire, Scan-backing) Netherlands 1509

Completed works

Statius, with an English translation (Volume 2) Publius Papinius Statius (Latin literature) Rome 1928

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