Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/June 2026

Monthly Challenge

June 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: 5449
- (181% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3113
Pages validated: 1971

February

Pages processed: 4232
- (141% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2597
Pages validated: 1313

March

Pages processed: 3695
- (123% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2480
Pages validated: 1016

April

Pages processed: 5341
- (178% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3841
Pages validated: 1328

May

Pages processed: 4130
- (137% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2665
Pages validated: 1199

June

Pages processed: 3924
- (130% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2642
Pages validated: 1195

July

Pages processed: ~3272
- (~109% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2182
Pages validated: 885

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	116	61	196	196
2	56	17	90	286
3	106	33	141	427
4	72	15	93	520
5	98	28	126	646
6	101	14	114	760
7	144	10	154	914
8	64	21	85	999
9	27	8	35	1034
10	69	48	126	1160
11	63	19	84	1244
12	109	17	131	1375
13	79	11	96	1471
14	42	8	50	1521
15	105	43	161	1682
16	163	14	178	1860
17	103	125	228	2088
18	205	63	268	2356
19	119	26	145	2501
20	78	22	100	2601
21	132	96	228	2829
22	152	31	185	3014
23	116	67	183	3197
24	56	91	153	3350
25	77	98	175	3525
26	63	53	116	3641
27	44	48	92	3733
28	49	36	85	3818
29	25	55	80	3898
30	9	17	26	3924
Avg.	88	40		131
Total	2642	1195		3924

June 2026

Works in current challenge: 70
Total pages in current challenge: 17607
Average processed pages per day this month: 131
Recent changes in this Challenge (only indexes, pages, authors)

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}}.