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Monthly Challenge

January 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.
  • Pages processed: ~3833
    • (~127% of 3000)
  • Pages proofread: 2315
  • Pages validated: 1154


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Daily statistics
Day under 100
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DayPVPagesTotal
115573346346
2120113245591
321493320911
4131341661077
5113261671244
685331981442
7102521541596
885671611757
9128441741931
101121042392170
111851113072477
1281451262603
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14163862493064
15181181993263
166527923355
17118661843539
1879391573696
1952681203816
20107173833
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Avg.12160201
Total231511543833

January 2026

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  • Works in current challenge: 58
  • Total pages in current challenge: 16300
  • Average processed pages per day this month: 201
  • 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)

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

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

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

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

To proofread (works added 1 month ago)

Pan Knut Hamsun (Novels) Norway 1921

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

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

The Apple Cart George Bernard Shaw (Celebrating the Public Domain, Plays) Ireland 1930

The Cat Who Went to Heaven Elizabeth Coatsworth (Celebrating the Public Domain, Newbery Books) 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

To validate (works added 1 month ago)

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

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

To validate (works added 2 months ago)
Completed works

Juvenal Edward Walford (Classics) Rome 1872

The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper (Celebrating the Public Domain, Children's literature) US 1930