Wikisource:Community collaboration/Monthly Challenge/November 2023

Monthly Challenge

November 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: 4690
- (234% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3310
Pages validated: 1257

April

Pages processed: 3725
- (186% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2044
Pages validated: 1641

May

Pages processed: 2726
- (136% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 1881
Pages validated: 768

June

Pages processed: 3629
- (181% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2271
Pages validated: 1261

July

Pages processed: 3179
- (158% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2137
Pages validated: 956

August

Pages processed: 3744
- (187% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3008
Pages validated: 588

September

Pages processed: 3648
- (182% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 3166
Pages validated: 321

October

Pages processed: 3646
- (182% of 2000)
Pages proofread: 2131
Pages validated: 1418

November

Pages processed: 4059
- (135% of 3000)
Pages proofread: 3522
Pages validated: 487

December

Pages processed: 3738
- (120% of 3100)
Pages proofread: 2827
Pages validated: 720

← 2022 2024 →

Daily statistics
Day	P	V	Pages	Total
Day under 100
Day over 200
1	78	22	101	101
2	87	21	112	213
3	95	59	154	367
4	56	21	98	465
5	90	34	124	589
6	91	5	96	685
7	71	14	93	778
8	129	1	130	908
9	117	1	119	1027
10	167	12	179	1206
11	86	30	116	1322
12	111	14	125	1447
13	101	4	105	1552
14	116	9	125	1677
15	139	1	140	1817
16	162	13	175	1992
17	119	1	120	2112
18	131	7	138	2250
19	58	14	80	2330
20	67	6	73	2403
21	124	3	127	2530
22	128	1	129	2659
23	135	8	143	2802
24	133	16	149	2951
25	103	66	174	3125
26	117	6	123	3248
27	91	8	100	3348
28	490	29	519	3867
29	74	29	103	3970
30	56	32	89	4059
Avg.	117	16		135
Total	3522	487		4059

November 2023[edit]

Works in current challenge: 76
Total pages in current challenge: 27144
Average processed pages per day this month: 135
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).
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}}.

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.