Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/January 2023

Monthly Challenge

January 2023

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.

Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	169	25	222	222
2	284	40	353	575
3	212	15	261	836
4	212	308	531	1367
5	145	108	276	1643
6	197	44	253	1896
7	194	46	288	2184
8	194	84	299	2483
9	207	165	374	2857
10	141	38	199	3056
11	110	43	154	3210
12	169	89	259	3469
13	86	25	111	3580
14	69	21	90	3670
15	34	48	82	3752
16	36	30	66	3818
17	60	85	145	3963
18	139	35	188	4151
19	125	63	189	4340
20	147	55	219	4559
21	139	48	188	4747
22	192	31	223	4970
23	120	18	138	5108
24	83	19	102	5210
25	80	31	112	5322
26	104	101	207	5529
27	14	0	14	5543
28
29
30
31
Avg.	140	62		213
Total	3662	1615		5543

January 2023[edit]

Works in current challenge: 83
Total pages in current challenge: 31106
Average processed pages per day this month: 213
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

Proofread works this month

Validated works this month

Guidelines[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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).
At the start of a poem, put <poem> and place a </poem> at the end. 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 oldstyle numbers use {{oldstyle}}.
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[edit]

Easy – These works have good OCR and have simple formatting consisting mainly of font sizes, bold, italics, centering, and a Table of Contents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.