Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/May 2025

Monthly Challenge

May 2025

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: 5726
- (190% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3888
Pages validated: 1642

February

Pages processed: 4208
- (140% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2743
Pages validated: 1353

March

Pages processed: 2999
- (99% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2301
Pages validated: 581

April

Pages processed: 4273
- (142% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2222
Pages validated: 1957

May

Pages processed: 3772
- (125% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 1885
Pages validated: 1687

June

Pages processed: 3707
- (123% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2277
Pages validated: 1329

July

Pages processed: 4303
- (143% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2889
Pages validated: 1198

August

Pages processed: 4258
- (141% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3063
Pages validated: 1080

September

Pages processed: 4366
- (145% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2613
Pages validated: 1643

October

Pages processed: 4327
- (144% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3028
Pages validated: 881

November

Pages processed: 3621
- (120% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 2205
Pages validated: 1031

December

Pages processed: ~1648
- (~54% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 944
Pages validated: 551

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Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	79	81	203	203
2	71	75	178	381
3	92	22	172	553
4	119	38	197	750
5	93	33	127	877
6	37	25	62	939
7	58	43	101	1040
8	53	51	113	1153
9	69	44	114	1267
10	38	84	123	1390
11	57	137	194	1584
12	77	29	107	1691
13	51	33	87	1778
14	32	50	82	1860
15	33	77	110	1970
16	43	63	106	2076
17	69	90	159	2235
18	62	40	106	2341
19	110	33	143	2484
20	78	32	112	2596
21	54	27	81	2677
22	86	25	111	2788
23	67	56	126	2914
24	47	91	138	3052
25	56	71	127	3179
26	91	50	142	3321
27	46	62	109	3430
28	44	66	110	3540
29	49	70	119	3659
30	18	32	50	3709
31	6	57	63	3772
Avg.	61	54		122
Total	1885	1687		3772

May 2025

Works in current challenge: 65
Total pages in current challenge: 18924
Average processed pages per day this month: 122
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}}.