Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/May 2022

Monthly Challenge

May 2022

Each month, the Wikisource community selects a few texts to proofread and validate.
The texts are featured for a maximum of three months with a few exceptions.
The challenge builds Wikisource's core collection and helps introduce new users to Wikisource.
Wikisource seeks to make free, scan-backed ebooks accessible to everyone.

Current Challenge

Pages processed: 7257
- (362% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4385
Pages validated: 2517

February

Pages processed: 6976
- (348% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4029
Pages validated: 2677

March

Pages processed: 6392
- (319% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4718
Pages validated: 1351

April

Pages processed: 5928
- (296% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 4123
Pages validated: 1488

May

Pages processed: ~5268
- (~263% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3844
Pages validated: 1228

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	73	60	154	154
2	272	68	352	506
3	129	27	156	662
4	113	37	150	812
5	184	36	220	1032
6	201	159	361	1393
7	229	46	293	1686
8	170	57	227	1913
9	250	52	345	2258
10	409	51	470	2728
11	125	32	170	2898
12	140	37	183	3081
13	197	14	217	3298
14	181	135	373	3671
15	301	62	365	4036
16	88	66	154	4190
17	68	55	123	4313
18	66	30	97	4410
19	78	40	118	4528
20	108	49	157	4685
21	80	65	145	4830
22	175	30	206	5036
23	99	5	109	5145
24	54	10	64	5209
25	54	5	59	5268
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27
28
29
30
31
Avg.	158	51		217
Total	3844	1228		5268

May 2022[edit]

Works in current challenge: 91
Total pages in current challenge: 31209
Average processed pages per day this month: 217
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.