Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/March 2023

Monthly Challenge

March 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.

Pages processed: 6108
- (305% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4033
Pages validated: 1804

February

Pages processed: 4393
- (219% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3275
Pages validated: 990

March

Pages processed: ~3605
- (~180% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2733
Pages validated: 752

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	191	25	288	288
2	90	0	96	384
3	164	25	197	581
4	151	47	200	781
5	176	77	257	1038
6	263	38	302	1340
7	287	54	341	1681
8	235	47	301	1982
9	135	13	151	2133
10	172	41	213	2346
11	220	39	259	2605
12	156	56	213	2818
13	140	23	164	2982
14	52	17	68	3050
15	44	28	72	3122
16	135	63	198	3320
17	27	30	61	3381
18	29	18	47	3428
19	47	25	72	3500
20	19	86	105	3605
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28
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30
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Avg.	143	35		184
Total	2733	752		3605

March 2023[edit]

Works in current challenge: 62
Total pages in current challenge: 23201
Average processed pages per day this month: 184
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.